Greetings,

It does like a direct connection isn't be established and therefore it's sending through the
server (which is highly throttled).

If you click the Tools menu, then Options, then click the Connection category, does it
indicate that you're using a UPnP NAT?
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"thedave" <anthraxscare@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've done all of the tweaking I can figure, UPnP settings are all on and functioning, I'm
> in the DMZ zone -- this never used to be a problem...
>
> But sending a file ZOOMS for about 2 seconds, then it stops and CRAWLS at what I'm guessing
> would be roughly 0.5K a sec -- and it never speeds up at that point.
>
> Any ideas?
>