I've been using Limewire to download MPG and MP3's at various times during the mid morning and late evening over the last three days. When I download it downloads from at least 7 hosts nearly every time but at an average speed of 2 Kb/s. Compared to yesterday when it was @ 35 Kb/s and the day before when it was @ 85-115 Kb/s. Do you have any idea of why it has slowed down? I have one theory that Gnutella holds a list of its members IP addersses and recognises them as either high or low speed connections, so therefore gives high speed I.P adderesses more priority when downloading. I recently had problem with Limewire thinking I was behind a firewall so i couldn't get a stable connection. Maybe thats when Gnutella listed me as a problem member. If so how long does it take for those I.P lists to be changed/updated?

Can Anyone help Please?
THNX 4 Readin DON Amaad.

i don really know babe, iv bin usin limewire fa bout 3wks an had no probs, hope u sort it soon thou. lol

I've been seeing a surge in complaints from customers of your ISP this past
week, and always about connection problems and download speeds. It seems
quite likely that they are throttling or "shaping" P2P right now, most likely
because traffic has been too heavy.

The gnutella network has no control mechanism like you described, and
probably never will. Such a feature would be so unpopular that a lot of people
would start rejecting updated versions of LimeWire and the other gnutella
programs just to avoid the artificial slowdown.