I'll try to make this brief. It's a question that comes up a lot I know, but after lots of forum searching I still cannot make things happen with my downloading. I really would like to use LW. I've heard good things about it. Here are my specs and I've outlined my problem below that.

My Specs:

I have a high speed cable connection. With about a 1000kbps download speed, 175 kb per second transfer speed and a 300 kbps upload speed.

Lime Wire Pro 4.0.6- That's me

I have no firewall running. I did a bug test and found my-"received incoming this session to be: "true". I called my ISP Ygnition (out of Huston) and they support p2p networking. They only use port 25. I am using port 6346. I have no router. I connect directly to my cable modem. I'm using a laptop with a 2gig pentium M processor and 512 of ram. I have a Nvidea graphics card too, just in case you're curious. I have disabled all my antivirus and firewall software. I've got the most current version of Java running. Downloading other files from the internet...not a problem. Kazzaa, works well too. My "quality" icon in the bottom left corner of the application usually says, good to turbo charged.

My Problem:

No matter what I try to download, be it a 115 kb file or a 100 meg file. I get no faster download rate then 0 to 4 kbps. Usually 0. LW states I am downloading from many different sources (up to 8 I've gotten) I understand that sometimes "I'm trying to pull from a small bandwidth with a large bandwidth" which basically negates itself to small bandwidth. I usually am trying to download from cable to T3's. And 4 stars are a must. I have tried many, many, many different files to download. From many, many, many different sources. But I haven't gotten LW to download ANYTHING. Even a 50kb file would take something like 5 days.

I see some people here are getting outrageous download speeds- like 130kbps! Unreal! I'd be happy to keep mine around 7. I am obvioulsy missing something. What is it? Working across a network, fire walls and ISP isn't really my things. Any help is greatly apprecieated. I apologize for the redundancy.

Thanks to all in advance-

-D

YES! Now this is how posts should be. dweinin has specified most everything! Great.
Now, on to the problem at hand:
First, you must understand that the speeds that are indicated in LW while dlding are in kBs. Your speed, as the ISPs try to sell it, is in kbps. The difference is that 1kbps is 8 times a kBps, so if you saw someone dlding with 130kBps then it's about 1000kbps (which is your max speed).
Now, you must reactivate you antivirus as it has nothing to do with blocking connections.
Next, launch LW and click Tools->Options.
There, go to Uploads, then Basic and set the Upload meter to about -5KBps of your max upload speed, specified by your connection (but in KBs not kbs).
Next, go to Downoads and increase the number of simultaneous dlds by a little. This can be easily misinterpreted as most everyone thinks that this refers to the number of simultaneous different dlds, but it actually refers to the simultaneous identical dlds too: it means that if you try to dld a file with many hosts, the higher the number here, the more hosts LW will try to connect to while dlding. This number must be increased a little at a time until you reach a number that seems optimal for dlding and uploading as too large a number can slow down your speed 'cause LW will use up bandwidth to try to connect to more hosts.
If I remember anything else I'll come back and post again.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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