My last post was Thursday. Magically, today is Friday. Also, magically, without any changes, and LW being on continuously, my searches are no longer showing files from my shared folders.

Birdy--Where did you get the info on blue stars? My LAN consists of me and my wife and she is not running LW. Yes, I would expect to get fast downloads from myself. Never tried it but I certainly will next Wed or Thur or whenever LW decides to offer me my own files.

I tried an experiment one time by running LW on both computers. I had noticed a popular file people tried to upload usually resulted in Transfer Interrupted. Thinking LW might be showing the file as corrupted, I listened to it carefully and then ran it through a program (sort of a spectrum analyzer) to see if there was anything obviously wrong. The file appeared to be ok. So, I tried downloading it from my wifes machine. Searches never displayed the file (in effect I was searching for my own files). Same external ISP but different ports and different internal ISPs. I thought I had proven to myself that I could not search my own files!

I quit worrying about it because I saw most Transfer Interrupted notices were coming from users of brand xx software.