Avabraun'sb*tch and StormWPB’s problem sound very similar to mine.
I believe that up until aprox Sunday, or Saturday, earlier this week, my downloads were transferring at more then 100 Kbps each. Over all I would be pulling 800-900 kbps total download, and maybe 50-100 kbps upload. That is, if I was actually downloading that many files. Now I get either 2-5 kbps, 0 kbps, or it tells me immediately “more sources needed”

I read through some of the topics in this forum looking for an answer to this problem before I decided to speak up. But to no avail.

I am a Comcast cable user, in the Chicago area. i downloaded maybe 3 or 4 different magnet links, and each one downloaded separately at over 350 kbps, a few of them two at a time. I visited several speed testing sites, and got an average bandwidth speed of 6mbps-7mbps. (this actually surprises me, because as far as I know, my plan is limited to only 3 mbps. But I suppose I was wrong, who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth?)

I run under windows XP professional. And I can guarantee that I have absolutely nothing blocking my connection to the gnutella network. Not a firewall, not a router, not an anti virus program. And my connection is always every bar highlighted.

At first, I was worried that my problem could involve a bandwidth cap. But that fear was assuaged quickly enough as I can run file transfers via a messaging program, such as aol instant messenger at a speed that, provided the receiving computer has a fast connection, is slightly less then 100 kbps. I can download files at nearly 100 kbps from various websites. And also I am getting worse results from lime wire the farther away from peak hours I go. What I mean by that is I get almost absolutely no bandwidth from downloading on limewire at 3-5 am, compared to about 10-15 kbps during 5 pm.

One thing that concerns me however, is that my uploads are transferring at over ten times the speed of my downloads. It seems to me that if my ISP has put me under a bandwidth cap, then I would be forced to reduce my total bandwidth usage. Not just my downloading.

Here is my info
Windows xp professional
Java 1.5.0_06
I connect from Home
I do share my connection with another computer, but I doubt that that could be the cause for this. 70% of the time the other computer is not in use, and when it is its very light weight usage.
Ive been using limewire for nearly a year.
I do not have a brickwall