No uploads in Tampa FL Earthlink/Brighthouse cable

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I have used Limewire for a number of years, though not recently. Tonight I connected via direct ethernet cable connection with my firewall both enabled (allowing for the usual Limewire ports) and disabled.

I am seeing no uploads from others all evening, except for four small files. I have been on Limewire for 6+ hours and only 4 files have been uploaded by others.

Under Library, I am seeing no "hits" or "uploads" ... the counts remain at 0.

Normally I would see a huge buzz of activity, but nothing.

I have not used Limewire in awhile, but it makes me wonder if Brighthouse cable or Earthlink have begun implementing traffic shaping or other bandwidth throttling techniques.

I tried downloading a small file and was able to, albeit at an abysmal speed of between 1 KB/s up to a blazing 11KB/s. :p

I did a speed test at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and was able to get a download speed of 693.6 KB/s download and 41.9 KB/s upload speed through Atlanta, GA.

I went to http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ and received "Your test worked!"

In Bug Reports, "Is Connected" is reported as "True" and "Received incoming this session" is "True."

I am connected to 31 Peers and 29 Leaves.

My preferences are set to unlimited download bandwidth, allow 1000 files per person, 6 upload slots, upload speed 191.25 KB/s, allow partial sharing, and freeloading is set to "files you must share to not be a freeloader"; 5, and allow freeloaders rarely.

I have tried my firewall configuration in Limewire Preferences (1) manually with a listening port of 6346 and manual port forward of 6346, (2) using UPnP, (3) using a different port; 50000, for both listen and port forward, shutting down each time to ensure the preferences took.

My version of Limewire is 4.8.1 Pro.

Why am I seeing so little traffic? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.