Adam

Thanks for taking the time to reply. (Yes, thank you too unregistered guest ;-). I have considered all the points you raise in it (and yours too unregistered guest ). I have studied the situation for three hundred some downloads from Gnutella and thousands from Napster. Overall I did notice a large speed difference and in the end I thought I'd run my observation by the very knowledgable folks in this forum (yes, you too, unregistered guest) just in case the reason for the slowness is somehow a result of the setup at my end.

By the way, I would like to make my entire mp3 collection available - that's some 4000 mp3's - but when I do that my pc kinda grinds to a halt because the processor usage maxes out a lot. This couldn't be caused by the fact that I am still hacking around on a Pentium running at 233MHz which is nearly as old as the pyramids, could it now?

Thanks again. Oh, and don't get me wrong, I like LimeWire. I recommend it whenever I get a chance.

kurt