you should try gnucleus, its stable, has multiple searches. and you can find stuff quite quickly with it. because it seems to search better. and its open source. and its almost the exact same thing as toad node. also its programmed with c++ and has very low cpu usage.. except for when someone cancels a file transfer.. it freezes for a second, but transfers go on ok.

toade node.. while pretty good, sometimes doesnt complete searches.. with toad node i could try searching for madonna.. and actually get nothing.. but if i do it on gnucleus i get somewhere in the hundreds of songs. then i could go right back to toad. and still get nothing.. i tried even after connecting and reconnecting. also you get wierd spaces and such with toad node.

ohh.. one thing that could make the gnutella net slow down .. is people with 56 k modems trying to connect to it. couldnt that slow it down?