A couple more points: A large % of videos come from those who access other networks. eg: ShareAza. ShareAza users are reknown/infamous because of their use of 2 or more networks at one time, meaning they offer only miserly upload speeds on Gnutella. This may only be one reason for slow video speeds. Another may also be because video files take much longer to downld so slots are taken up for much longer & also those with videos tend to be more popular for downlding from. The same is true for me. Despite sharing a couple of thousand audio files, my small no. of video files almost always take up my upload slots & queues. As the point the others made, some people may also have too many upload slots & thus their upload speeds get shared too thinly. For audio files which finish quickly, this isn't such an issue.