I must say I'm not the expert on this. I *was* a Limewire user, and I thought LW was great (used v2.1.3). LW is all I've ever known, until....

Last week I upgraded to LW v2.9.8 and lost the ability to download completely. I made all the recommended changes shown here at this board -- nothing helped. The only difference was that I had been using a router the past few months in my home, and my downloading ability began to decrease recently with the older version of LW.

Coincidence re: using a router? Well, I didn't know ... so I tried Shareza. Shareza worked perfectly fine for me from the get-go, and I must say, it is much ''slicker'' than Limewire IMO. This instant connection via Shareaza tells me that there was nothing wrong with my 'puter settings. Will I go back to LW? Doubt it; too much of hassle to make it work.

Just my $0.02 .....

P.S. -- I use Win2000 Prof'l Edition, connect via Comcast cable modem and use a Linksys router.