hello, Granpa, and thanks for the advice, I discovered only today your post...
well I know what you mean with those slow files... I wonder in fact why it is so different from one net to another... because, those same files (they seem to be the only ones I've got some interest for !) are much better represented on for instance overnet, that why I use mostly LimeWire for uploading my concerts (that music, seems to upload faster on LM !), and to have something to download too, I just put one old film on download (at the moment from Pagnol, 1% in twoo weeks, on the first day)... all my downloads are in fact made with the donkey, the same films which are about unobtainable here... and they just need from 3 to 4 days, but I download maybe 30 or 40 together, so every days or second day, there is something finished...
So, I'm just patiently waiting, maybe in the futur, Gnutella will also have more interesting files to present (on more then 1 location).