Here is an interesting thing I noted. When I start up LW (4.10.9 Pro) in the mornings, downloading is usually pretty slow, often even connected to 8-10 hosts I only get download speeds in the low 10s. Now if after a few minutes I power down my modem for a minute - while still letting LW run - and then power it back up, downloading will go up to super speeds. Soon as it reconnects to 8-10 hosts again, my downloading gets up to speeds of 50 to over 100 kbps!

Not sure what the cause of this but it works like magic. Try it on your machine too and see if it helps.

PS: also those of you who have two hard drives, set your incomplete and download folders to your second drive, this will also give you a major overall performance increase - especially if you run other apps at the same time - because your primary drive does not have to wrestle with saving and reading at the same time. I got a major performance increase with that too.

Happy sharing!

My system: G4 dual 533, 1 Gig Ram, OS X 10.3.9, DSL 1.2 Mb