i'm new to limewire and have poured over everything trying to figure out what was wrong w/ my connection. the best d/l speed i've been able to get is 45 KB/s - more common is in the teens and i've had a lot of connections hovering around 3KB/s, down to 1KB/s and then hang at 0.

i've got (comcast) cable modem, sygate firewall, have 60-100 files to share and allow 3/time though i brought that down to 2 and then 1 to see if it would make a difference. i am careful not to have too many d/l'ing at once, let limewire sit 20 minutes before doing searches to d/l (don't understand this, but read it somewhere here and dutifully obeyed) and have tweaked with settings.

did the test mentioned in this thread and got between 250-340KB/s with those.

i also discovered (as another poster mentioned) that when things crawl to 1KB/s if i pause and restart, i speed up (gack) to 20KB/s or so.

now that i'm officially baffled, does anyone have a further suggestion? limewire obviously isn't useable for me and i'd like for it to be.

thanks for any suggestions to this newbie.