If you check this technique out: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...912#post120912 You'll find it works & can be quite effective (I wrote that for a beginner but the principle applies.) In fact I was doing that earlier. A downld would slow down to zero so I'd stop it, & then reselect it from the search results. And occasionally searching again to see if I could find fresh sources & another bit of enthusiasm to jerk the downld back into action. I've been using that technique for a few years since LW2. lol But it works with those difficult ones.

Generally I just turn LW on & leave it go & it looks after itself. But on some days I need to slave over it. Like today for a few.

But then again, this should not be happening to all your downlds! If someone's uplding from you then you generally get better results all round. (Sure there's going to be some you can't connect to but they're exceptions.)

I'm not sure the "farm" is applicable. In the city if you have cable & all your neighbours are sharing it then it can be an issue for them b/c their results can be inconsistent. They'll have peak periods where their bandwidth drops. (I've seen jokes of neighbours arguing over use of the net.) lol

Your main connection to the voyager, is it USBv or ethernet? Ethernet is much prefered. It's much more reliable. View 3.4 USB-based modems/routers & scroll down to 3.4 USB-based modems/routers. USB may result in drops in performance.

I am having the same problem I can be downloading at 200KB/s with 8 connections then it will start droping goes to 0 drops connections then starts all over again this happens every 10 to 15 minuets Norton firewall is configured for LimeWire,Windows Firewall off. I have tried several versions of limewire and all are the same. I have been using for over a year now this problem has just started in the last month.I would appricate any help or sugestions

My computer is home built
AMD 2600+ Athlon at 2300 Mhz
2 WD 120 GB 7200 rpm HD
1.5 GB DDR (333 PC 2700)
Windows XP Pro SP/2
LimeWire 4.4.5
Java Version 5.0 1.5.0-01
Motorola surfboard S85100

Immediate suggestion; make a note of your LW setting & then delete the LW prefs folder as in here: Fixes for Limewire And perhaps get read of some of those incomplete files that have been hanging around for some time at 0% & their counterparts on the downld list.

This problem is not something that should be happening regularly.

Looks like this is a common problem

Thanks lord fix #2 seemed to help been downloading for about a hour now between 70 & 90 KB/s has not droped below 30 and then only for a few sec. Do you have any Idea of why this happend how did the settings get changed

lol yeah the farm was a small cackle type joke..
sorry for slow response "i drive truck" so was gone for a few days, so far i've been doin good, what i did was not use the ports suggested in the "help" section so to speak, i just changed a # like you suggested for my laptops, i did that for all my pc's and so far working pretty good not to bad of slow downs.