Shame i live about 1.1km from the exchange, as if i were closer i could get around 21meg down instead of 13. Pings are good though, usually around 16-17 to google.
Forget using Limewire, it isn't a good program in any way really.
Also, if you are using torrents, use uTorrent instead of bitlord as uTorrent is a lightweight program, which runs very well on pretty much anyones computer - it will also download torrents quicker than most other programs.
Who is your ISP? Virgin Media, Orange, BT, TalkTalk and a few others will limit any P2P traffic, some at peak hours, some will limit it all the time. Those ISP's will also limit anything other than port 80 traffic in peak hours.
steve0280 - Do you use wireless? That can cause high pings, along with Virgin limiting traffic, they also have notorious packet loss and high ping issues over most of the country.