Hi Baz_UK,
Welcome to the forum. Each section has stickies at the top, have a read of then as they contain heaps of info.

There's also a search button (top right, between faq and home) that you can use to look through all archived threads. It's good

The thread below is just one of hundreds (thousands??) which talks about increasing download speed!

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=40277