I've had that happen too, and I only have theories as to what causes it.

It must just be coincidence, but I have been having the same problem with speeds reducing to 0K and never completing.

I increased the memory partition for LimeWire and it certainly seems much better.

I like the tip about searching again for the file you are downloading - it seems to work great.

Increasing memory will not help you. Maybe in the next version, the "force resume" button will stop the download and try to connect to the hosts it was downloading from, again.

You're right about increasing the memory partition - in fact, because LimeWire appears to use dynamic memory allocation, it can stop it from launching at all if you set it too high.

However, the multiple searches for the same file while downloading works a treat. I have been able to download from 4 hosts simultaneously, really speeding things up.

If you all would share all the files you've downloaded, you all could accumulate the offered download speeds.

you would be happy too, if you could download your file from one more node, even if its only a dial up connection.....

so don't burn the files on cd immediately after download. every minute more you're sharing is like one minute shorter to dowload for you

Huh? Would you mind explaining how you come to this conclusion?

When I download something, as soon as it connects, I get speeds of 5,0,8,0,3,0,5,0 k/s.... etc but after about 1/2 a minute it stays on 0k/s continually... Any ideas?