well, this might be wasting my time, but i will give it a try ...

instead of blaming (rant), try to be constructive. i guess all the people writing here are using the gnutella network. and i guess it works for most of them. it hasn't necessarily worked for all of them right from the start, but they got it to work. this is a community that will help you on - but stop blaming and tell us more about your configuration (system, program, isp) and we will try to help you on. or, if you really know a better alternative, tell us about. we will give it a try and switch, if it really is better.

so, talk instead of shouting and we will all benefit from it