To cheer you up a bit, I have the same problem, although I just got a 56k modem. I've been connected to GnotellaNet for about 1 h now and sent 21 000 search queries. I've only got 11 search results though.

Furthermore, I've got ~ 11 000 000 bytes in and ~ 4 000 000 bytes out. 2 411 routing errors and 1 dropped message. All info taken from the statistics page.

Ideas, anyone?