I know y'all are sick to DEATH of explaining things to those of us who are completely new and ignorant as h*ll, but please advise:

I have spent two days doing everything you all have advised. I called my provider, Yahoo DSL, and they said they don't restrict anything. I did the speed test, my results were Download Speed: 1922 kbps (240.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 414 kbps (51.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
I have tweaked my uploads/dowloads bars, etc. I opened my collection of music for folks to upload so I wouldn't be a freeloader. I have done everything I can think of. I only connect to folks who have a T3 or higher connection. I only try 4 star stuff. My downloads very rarely exceed 2 kbps. I am very saddened and depressed about this. This is the main reason I purchased DSL! I have read page after page of advice from all of you, and most of it makes no sense at all to me. I don't have any idea how broadband works. Lee, you should write a book! So, if the folks I am connected to have a great connection, the servers aren't overloaded, and the solar syatem is aligned I should creep up to 10 kbps or so, right? I'd love to get up to 50+. I hate to even bring this up. Please advise, or help a newbie understand. Thanks for your time and endless patience. I have a PC, Win XP, 2wire router, Yahoo DSL service, and I can't think of anything else. Thanks...

You are one of the few people that have actually done their homework before posting Good job

The only thing that I can think of that might cause a problem like that is some kind of conflict between firewalls or antivirus/antispyware programs or if you are sharing an extreme amount of files which (sometimes) can cause problems.

Is that the speed for many downloads or is it 2 KB total. If you have too many things downloading at once that could cause some problems as well

Are you a new user of Limewire ? or has it worked before

What Firewall are you using if any ? (never use more than one)

Also what Antivirus/antispywareprograms do you use ?

Do you use UPnP ? (in the advanced<firewall)

if you do. Are you sure that your router is configured correctly for it ?

What version Java ?

"You are one of the few people that have actually done their homework before posting Good job"

Thanks! I tried to fix it myself. I even tried setting the ports for my router and for the stupid WINXP sp2.
I might have set them to something ridiculous, if y'all have the proper router numbers that would be awesome.

I did open my library to share, about 900 songs, should I cut it down?

I only download 4 things at a time usually.

I am a newbie with Limewire.

I have Symantec Antivirus, don't know of it's firewalled... I'll check, and if it is, should I disable it since WINXP has a built in one?

"Do you use UPnP ? (in the advanced<firewall)"
Huh? I am unsure of what that means... sorry!

I followed some online instructions to configure the router, 2wire 1710HP

I allowed Gnutella, manually added limewire and bittorrent, coulda screwed the pooch there.

Thank you so so so much for your help. I'm hoping that if I configure the XP crap and my router correctly I'll get some good ownloading. Heck, I could download 2kbps with my stupid 56k modem!!!

Thanks again,

Michelle

I did a search for your router and came up with no results could you give the link to it so I can see what kind of firewall it has if any.

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UPnP (Universal Plug N Play) is a function that allows you to connect through Firewalled routers easily, if your router supports it. I don't know with your router, but you should try setting Limewire to use UPnP. Maybe it will make it work.

In Limewire go to

tools<options<advanced<firewall and tick the (use UPnP) box, then restart Limewire
If it doesn't work you can always change it back

4 downloads at a time shouldn't cause problems

Sharing 900 songs shouldn't cause probems either, but it's a bit high number. The people that go after filesharers usually go after those that share 1000+ files as I understand, but 900 is pretty close to 1000 so maybe you should cut down just a bit

If you have some kind of security suite it will for sure have a firewall built in. Don't know if Symantec antivirus does though if it's just the antivirus. I have heard that the windows firewall isn't the best, so if you have another firewall then you should use it instead.

If you have the manual for your router, it should say if it is UPnP compatable, also if it uses NAT-firewalling. If it uses both then UPnP is the way to go.

Did your ISP provide you with your router ? Then they should be able to answer those questions as well, and tell you how to configure it