Hi

Welcome to the world of forums — mostly, they are helpful so get into the habit of finding the experts in whatever your current problem is.

In theory, there is no reason why your client should react differently depending on whether you are dial-up or DSL or cable. And, assuming that you are using a commercial ISP and not a private LAN (where there tend to be many limits placed on downloading/uploading) there should not be unreasonable limits placed on your use of bandwidth.

If we assume that you can download and this is purely a "no-one is downloading from me" problem, this may be a feature of the material you have offered for sharing - if it is very common, ppl may be d/loading from others with a better track record than you; if it is unusual, ppl may not want it. So with my apologies for starting with the obvious checks. Are you sure that this is not a firewall problem — that you have opened the correct port? Have you nominated the correct file(s) for sharing? How many upload slots have you opened? What values have you set in the upload/download conservancy? etc.

In other words, make sure that everthing is as it should be in the Preferences section. If that does not work, come back for more advice.

David91