i tried every thing on that thread it didnt change anything. i just installed a earlier version as suggested and it made no difference either. its odd it seems like i can only get 2-3kbps per host. but sometimes all my downloads just suddenly pick up speeds going up to 15-60kbps per download. my connection to Lw is always at 4 bars. when im downloading from LW i download files from other sources at speeds ranging from 45-160kbps per file without any effect on LW downloads. it just randomly picks up speed on rare occasions. and of course my firewall has Lw as an exception. im downloading files on LW right now from 4 sources each at 5 kbps to 8 kbps. how annoying