hey thanks for the reply!! You're wonderful. I actually managed to fix some problems by using advice form here as well. I deleted my file, reconfigured everything, lost all my ongoing searches, but kept my library. However, insteda of having no connection, I was able to get my downloads going again at up to about 40kb/s which is still way way lower than it was afew days ago ( around 100kb/s) but beggars can't be choosers! Thanks, Tina