Minimum Connections....
 

Ok this is really weird, before I reinstalled windows and shared files on limewire, the monitor displaying incoming searches would spam many many searches really fast like every second, and I would get many hits and downloads. Now suddenly after I reinstalled windows, and run the client, I get like 2 incoming searches every 30 minutes. Very very very slow! Why is this? I have no firewalls running, windows firewall is disabled. And even limewire doesn't detect a firewall. Plus I have a turbo charged connection. Please someone help! What is causing this? :confused:

If your concerns regard to the incomming search queries shown in the Monitor screen of LW, well maybe at the time you were online not many people where conducting searches.
Another reason could be that with reinstallation of windows your half open connections went back to 10.
You could try and use this patch to change this:
http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1.../Smilywais.gif

Well I installed the patch and am still having the same problem. :(

There's also the MS patch ... MS & 3rd party patches

Also check your options. Tools>Options>Uploads & downlds & check the no. of slots that are open. Make sure there's at least one for each if not multiples. Also check there's sufficient bandwidth set for both uploads & downlds. Check your search options also.