Limewire and Torrents worked on my computer for a long time, but all of a sudden it stopped working. Even though its on my allow list limewire simply refuses to connect to the network, and no matter what I do it can't seem to get it to work. Torrents work - slightly, but are incredibly slow.

When I turn off my Windows Firewall limewire still refuses to connect, and it's the same with the one other computer in my house, though I SWITCHED internet connections (for a different reason) and the problem remained. I suspect it may be the router, but I'm uncertain. Any help WOULD be appreciated.

*I of course do not condone the illegal exchange of copyrighted material.
Actually it may be your ISP...have you contacted them ? ?

ComCast for one has recently been sued for throttling down heavy DLoaders...Well, I used to use a different ISP though, and the problem has remained through both. (I use Verizon FiOS now.) I didn't think it would have been the ISP due to that, but I suppose it can't hurt to contact them. Quote

ComCast for one has recently been sued for throttling down heavy DLoaders...

Although Comcast advertises an unlimited cable-internet use policy, many heavy downloaders have run into an invisible cap, which triggers a call from Comcast's Security Department that FLAGS their account for excessive use. The second time this happens, you're booted altogether—under the reason of hampering connection quality for your neighbors. The number 300GB has been tossed around in forums lately as the cap Comcast uses, but it could be closer to about 90 to 150GB.

A spokesperson for the cable company said that excessive use qualifies as anybody who downloads "30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures, or 13 million EMAILS in a month." Since it's hard to quantify emails and pictures in terms of size, we'll have to judge by songs, which are usually about 3MB to 5MB depending on how high it's encoded.

But Comcast doesn't actually tell people exactly what this cap is, leading USERS to sit in fear of whether or not they'll go over and be booted. Although it's mostly heavy BitTorrent users who have been subject to this, the rise of ABC, NBC, Amazon, iTunes and NetFlix video services has put regular people who really enjoy TV into the same group as well.