I've been doing some reading this evening in the thread mentioned, while watching my downloads move along at their own pace. Interesting reading.

After doing the things already mentioned, things have improved just in the past few hours.

I'm not sure how accruate my connection speeds are, as well as the true UL & DL speeds are. I'm not very far from my free local ISP. It's based in my area. 99.9% of the time I connect at 48 Kbps, but sometimes I can connect @ 49.2Kbps. The ISP has several local access #'s, and the same happens no matter which I used.

I figured a lot of the results would be junk, but then again I also am growing tired of the trash can in the quality column of the results. Could I improve this by retraining Limewire, and having it forget all the data it aquired?

Are there any tips for modem users? I'd like to see speeds better than 5-7KB/s (shown next to the green down arrow).

Would it be advantageous of me to share my whole collection, rather than the group of 200 finished files that I have? I have heard that the more you share the more people like to give up bandwidth, slots, etc.

Blitzi has been a help but I generally look for files with a vommon range of file size in a particular group and then restart a new search with the results I find to help narrow it down, with the advanced search options. I'm more apt to also download files of common bit rate.

I have seen the odd .pdf file with a bitrate too. I assumed this to be a junk file.

Greg