Usenet Explorer

I am relatively new to UE and am having troubles with bandwidth. I'll be downloading perfectly fine, and within the last 75mb or so to go, my bandwidth drops to 18kb/s or lower. I have no idea why this is happening when my speeds are generally alright. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

18KB/s ?

What is the regular connection speed and how many article tasks do you have running?

Edit menu->task manager, the green computer tab next to the right of the "Articles" tab you can see the running tasks.

Do you see errors/mishaps in the console tab (leftmost or second from the left)?