dont get sucked into the HYPE blackhole here at gnutellaforums. Some people are trying to say that bearshare does not connect to other clients and that it creates a private network. This isnt true at all. BS save the last ( that is 1 spot) for connecting to other BS clients. I run BS and most of my connections are to non-BS clients.

So why are you not connecting to them? Because the network is so large and most of the clients on the network are now gnucleus/morpheus. There are not private networks. I am sure that if you look at your search results you are getting results from BS clients. YOu can download and upload fine with them. There is no reason to spoof the network.