thankyou i am no longer wondering why !!

would you care to try connecting to my now open connection to see if my (boring at the moment) shared files can be accessed - someone appeared to try earlier but my super ADSL2 connection only let them upload at about 4kbps - which is very poor considering I have set the thing to allow unlimited upload speed.

You will have to tell me what I need to tell you to let you connect directly as I have no idea !

if its too tricky or you can't be botheres, i understand and thanks all the same..