Kath- the reason you can see "no files/disconnected" and still be downloading, is that once you have located the file you're after, you form a direct connection to that macine, similar to how you can DCC files in IRC, whilst not being connected to a server.

I have only just started using Gnutella, and was recommended LimeWire (then at 1.6d). So I didn't know that seeing 26 hosts wasn't supposed to be right. I have twice seen 1k hosts over the past few weeks, but never more. Usually it's very low.

However, my laptop, on which I run gnut, does far, far better, which points at some issue with LimeWire, or the configuration thereof.

Just now I have noticed that I cannot add a host with the box immediately below the connected hosts table, though I can delete. So what the hell is it there for?