ALthough you may come up with 100's of results, many of those will be busy & not have any open upld slots available. And some of those will simply be too difficult to connect to anyway.

To get an idea of how fast you can downld, try a magnet link from the following page & see how fast you can get: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml

To see how fast one member has been able to get from the same link see Stief’s example: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...692#post138692

Yes sharing does help! You can get some valuable hints & even some xtra skills to help if you follow all the off-shoot links from this one: To continue files downlding (click on link)

Sharing & having people upld from you allows you to connect to more people & your search & dowld results should improve.

Don't turn your firewall off, configure it for LW. Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False? If false, then something such as a firewall is at least partially blocking LW. Uplder would be rare in that case. So make sure your firewall is properly configured for LW.