you got me... gthese are all good questions, and we need a little more explaination on how this system is actually working. In the 'theory' of it, presumably, all messages are broadcast to all systems on the network eventually, but I am not sure that that is in fact, implemented, and I am not sure that any given user on the network, is 'seeing' all the other machines on the network at any given time. I say this because I have noticed a sharp drop in users downloading from me, or requesting my files when the hosts i am connected to drops to a small number. There seems to be a correlation between the two, BUT if the system is working as per the theory stated above there shoulbe NOT be a corelation. Presumably I could be connected to only ONE other machine in the network, yet se ALL the machines. A "one to many" relationship...

I know I am not anwsering anything here, just asking more questions. I hope we can get an expert on board here to help us out....