Adam,

>A couple of questions for users having these problems:

>1) Are you using the same save directory in this version that you used with >the last one?

yes, a folder on the desktop

>2) The last version that worked so well for you was 2.1.2 or another? Do you remember?

it would have been whatever the most recent rev before 2.1.3 was that version tracker alerted me about - can't tell you exactly

>3) Are you sharing on a drive different from your main hard drive?

no, only one measly 20gig drive on my rig

>Thanks.

you're welcome

to illustrate the intermittancy of the problem, last night I could download two mp3s and another 10Mb file, very fast and no problem, all at the same time.

This morning, it's still working good.

at other times I'll try for hours with no success. all other apps (IE, Entourage v.X, Eudora, Transmit, Dreamweaver) work fine.

I'll try to watch what is happening more closely, but things are real simple here, just me and my cable modem. Maybe the fact that Comcast is transitioning from the Excite servers to their own as we speak has something to do with it.

as soon as downloads become more reliable I'll go Pro, that's a promise.

cg