My setup is:
LimeWire Pro on port 6346
Windows XP
ZoneAlarm configured to allow Limewire
*** Router with port forwarding enabled for port 6346
ISP TalkTalk 1MB ADSL

I'm finding the downloads extremely slow, if not non-existent. They appear in my Downloads window and in the Status column it shows "Downloading from n hosts" but the speed is 0KB/s, with the Time column either blank or showing hours and hours to go.

I tend to choose the highest number of copies, with 4 star quality and with Cable, T1 or T3 speed if possible.

The only time it ever seems to show any download speed at all is generally early in the morning. I have been using LimeWire for about 2 years, but it's only been the last couple of months that I been experiencing this problem. Is it my ISP throttling back P2P connections? Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm having the same problems as you, just wondering if you have found out if talktalk are the ones causing the probs, my set up worked fine untill about October!

No, I'm afraid I've still got the same issues. Funnily enough my problems started around October time too. I have added port forwarding rules to my router, but it has made no difference.

I'm suspecting it is TalkTalk who are blocking the traffic (and I'm sure I've read on another forum that they block p2p traffic for all their users), but have not tackled them over it yet.

I think it may be time to switch broadband ISP. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Hi, I've been advised that talktalk do now block P2P http://www.talktalk.co.uk/talktalk/s...S&NODE_ID=6900 it is here in their T&C's, I also didn't know that talktalk is part of Tiscali who are know too! Time to change ISP! See www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/caps.htm for ISP's that don't