If it's not a universal speed drop on all files, then it sounds like your sources are the problem. Search again to find more sources. Or cancel the file from the downld list & re-select from the search results. For some reason this seems to freshen up the downld & it may downld at better speeds. Keep a note of the client you're downlding from. Those that are RAZA (Shareaza) are reknown to be unreliable to downld from b/c they are on more than one network at the one time.