Peerless is right - the "nude Britney" search will always let you know exactly how well you're plugged into the network (you should expect to be swamped by results) - there is one other issue though that I've noticed - if I compare the "hit monitor" window in shareaza with the "enable incoming searches" in LW its usually the case that LW has less porn, programs, videos, images etc than shareaza

LW preferences LW ultrapeers over other clients such as shareaza, xolox, morpheus etc and although this shouldn't mean less connections to other peers via the LW ultrapeers it nevertheless does seem to mean that whilst mp3 searches may be better, searches for images etc are maybe not as productive as when the ultrapeers are more diverse - you could try playing in the connections window - disconnecting some of the LW ultrapeers and getting up a more 'mixed bag' of connections - one LW, one gnucleus and one shareaza for example

Fear Not - you'll be amazed at just how quickly files can pile up even when you stuck at 56k - I too am forced to use a dial-up because here in Australia one company effectively has a monopoly on telecommunications and whilst you can get 'unlimited time/unlimited downloads' on dial-up deals the faster cable connections come with truly vicious pricing schemes - usually after a 300 mb per month limit (and that 300 mb is ALL data transfers so EVERYTHING going up and down is counted/costed) - but even so - after not very long I'm now frantically trying to squeeze extra space out my hard drive to make room for new treasures (anyone know a good defragmentation program for NT? - maybe that'd give me an extra mb or two)

Cheers, bad_vlad