Glad to hear it's getting healthy again. Yu don't need to have full green quality connection to be dwnlding to high capacity. In fact it will also do ok sometimes if one of the red indicators is showing. I'm surprised u couldn't do a search though if there was at least 1 green indicator. Possibly the uplders were taking as max uld capacity & not allowing your search to go out. 'If ' this ever happens again, make a note about exactly which apps are uplding from you (see in the monitor window) & post back to us. The reason I'm asking this is b/c there's some rogue p2p apps out there that destroy the health of the Gnutella netwrk. They steal all the upld bandwidth & some can push others out of the way apparently (at least in a queu.)