Keep getting connection closed from hubs while connected, disconnects every few seconds

May you can get some ideas from the slow downloads faq (included to DC++ help file as well) : http://www.dslreports.com/faq/8735

Well I read through it and didn't find anything that matches my problem, unless the ISP is blocking DC++'s hub ports or something....

The download speed is coz of slow users, don't think its something funny going on.

This could be a wide range of problems and many of them mentioned on that faq, icluding : bad netrconnection, virus/spyware infection, the security software you use, enabled or misconfigured flood protection...
What kind of internet connection do you have? Do you have a router? Does the whole internet connection lost when the hubs disconnected? Did you tried to temporarily disable/uninstall your security software? Do you use other p2p software parallel with DC+++?

Its a wifi connection running through a router, but no firewall. The connection remain 100% when DC++ drops out, actually if there is a download running at the time, it keeps on downloading, regardless of what the hub is doing. the hub connect again before the download has time to be cancelled for not being in th ehub anymore.

Was using Bitdefender on XP, had the same issue, now I'm using Norton IS on Vista Business, same issue. DC++ runs by itself, no other software is sharing the available bandwidth.

Seems that after the hub displays the MOTD, that there is no further communication, i.e. it "times out" (I suppose) and says connection closed. You mentioned flood protection, where can I check for that?

From the mentioned faq :

"You may haven't set up your third party firewall or internet monitor software correctly. Some of these security applications may treat P2P transfer as a DDoS flood attempt and try to defend your computer from it. Try to disable or even uninstall these applications temporarily and test your downloads again. If it helps refer the application's documentation how to make exception rules for DC++. If you have a router its also possible that it has some anti-DDoS or flood protection feature and it may enabled by default. Check the router's documentation or configuration page for a possible option of this kind."

You said you made an exception for DC++. Remove and readd it again. The flood protection setting also can be a general one, not per appication.
If it doesn't help test it with
- Norton uninstalled
- with wired connection to the router
- with connected directly without the router
to find out what's the problem...

Try connecting directly.
I faced a similar problem ( not same) and I am almost sure that the router was the root of all problems.

I Haven't done anything, and DC is now staying connected again, but now the speed sucks. I'm sure the issue is router related, but I don't have access to it (apparently)

So I'm sure this a network issue not DC++, thanks for the repsonse guys