There's also magnet links as another technique of sending files to friends. Also browsing them at the same time. BTW did you turn off your XP firewall? Norton & XP firewalls have issues when run together which also means less security. BTW I have no problems direct connecting with others. Only those that are firewalled. I have a list of hosts I like to connect to & know I can. If you're on a network or your family is, then it would be very difficult to direct connect to them if their ip starts with either 192 or 10.

Glad we spent a lovely time together. Perhaps you should go for a totally different network. Gnutella probably won't work for you if you have your attitude to finding the cause of "your" issue. Neither would G2 or those others. Probably what you need is a direct connect program to connect specifically & only with family members to swap pics, music, etc. I have a link to one somewhere.

BTW there's many, many millions of people who use LW. Up to 1 million copies of LW are downlded everyday. A small % have problems. They come here. So what you see with others having issues is really a very small no. considering the massive no. of users. This is the place to find help to problems ... that's why you see posts about problems ... that's what this forum is about. lol