Both the above posts are from me.

Yes I am shearing; I'm shearing a ton of stuff.
And yes I know about the view menu, it doesn’t have $hit about uploading. The only options it has is
1. connections
2. Monitor
3. Library
Like I said, Gnotella use to actually show you how many files the users were shearing. It just seems that I’ve always got 4 or more people uploading from me yet all my downloads are doing nothing. Every once in awhile I get something going and then it ends up timing out before it downloads, almost like the network got bogged down.