Make sure you don't have too many 'forced' resume files! These send out searches on their own evry few mins & if there's many of them, they will fill up your upld bandwidth & affect both your connection quality & searches. Forced resumed files are identified by status messages such as: Waiting #secs for Sources, ends up as Awaiting Sources if can't connect compared to Need more resouces as a failure to connect for normal searching. Also try not to dwnld too many files at one time. If you're uplding, you'll be able to get better connection quality, connect to more peers, get better search results & potentially better/more resourses to dwnld from. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...5&pagenumber=1

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Search & dwnld techniques (some hints)