Just as a side note: Over the past week I've noticed I was able to both browse & direct connect to several Bearshare clients. Made me realise that BS is finally becoming more Gnutella user friendly & compliant for other Gnut clients. But I just tried it with you & no go. Surprising considering you've upped your upld bandwidth over 15 times. Perhaps it's a bug in your particular beta version. I have 0 up & down at moment. Perhaps you don't have BS open at this moment.