I have exactly the same problem, my download starts but then within a few seconds the kb rate slowly moves down to 0 kb/s . Please help. I just installed that peer gaurdian program and my download improved slightly for a little bit but all the while still droppping to zero and getting stuck there. On 0 to 2 to 5 to 2 to 0 kb/s at a time for hours, I've grown pretty frustrated. You see, I'm trying to get this 700+ mb mpeg file(DS9) that I want so bad in my labtop but at this rate I'm not sure if I'm ever ganna get it seeing as how I'm only able to download this file if the people who has this is online(which I could tell is not that many having to wait days at a time before I could continue with the dowload again ). No matter how high the download rate fluctuates to, why does it keep dropping to back down to zero kb/s? And it's only with this file! All my other downloads were fine no matter how large it was never behaved like this. Can somebody out there tell what's goin on, like the previous person who posted above I've also been dowloading(mostly ST episodes) for quite some time and I've never ran into this problem before. Please tell me what I can do to fix this.