Hi

You could be seeing the fallout from the action of the Recording Industry against four students (just settled with the students paying a varying amount between $12,000 and $17,500 each in damages). Because the Schools and Universities fear being caught up in the litigation, many have been denying their students access to Gnutella or lowering the general quality of service made available to P2P activities. If I am right, I regret to say that there will be nothing that you can do about it. As an experiment, why don't you try logging on to the net directly and see whether you get a connection to Gnutella.