Thanks Stief,
and also to all the responders, you guys have been great. As for the firewall setting, it is a little strange, but since i discovered the root user thing, i'm not too worried as i can access it from there....
Had a look at the AirPort Admin, but it doesnt seem as there is anything there that fits the bill

Thanks again

Amedeo

Wow!
This is amazing!!
I am now connected to 29 peers!!
Before, the most it would ever get to is 4!!
What does this mean....?
I imagine that the dl speed will not be directly affected, as i suppose that that is more affected by how many users have the dl file and their connection speed.
But ...
It must be good for something else....
Can anyone explain please?

Thanks

Amedeo

hehe--you are now an UltraPeer.

You probably won't see much difference in your searches and downloads, but you are now handling the traffic that gets directed to the leaves. Pretty soon you'll see a # of leaves connected. You'll be shielding them from the flood of requests passing through the network.

For fun, turn on the incoming searches in the monitor pane to see the searches flowing through the network. Your machine will pass on those searches to the relevant leaves. You can also doubleclick those searches.

Cool eh?

hahah... very cool.
Tell me something, is that also why my internet has slowed down some?
Time for pages to load, fwd and bck buttons etc.?

Ah--you shouldn't notice much of a slowdown, unless you are sharing a lot of popular files.

Limit the uploads to ~ 85% of your available upload speed (in the upload preferences). IIRC, you tested at ~90KB/s upstream, so try setting your throttle at ~70-80. You shouldn't notice much slowdown in browsing the web then.

If this slows the uploaders down too much, limit the number of slots available so they can get increased speeds from you. You can change the settings on-the-fly so see what works best by watching the uploads in the Monitors page.

Btw---you will want to keep an eye on your bandwidth, especially if your ISP has applied monthy bandwidth caps or throttles. Check with them (mine allows 60 GB/mo and I check the usage page that they provide daily ). With a similar connection to yours, running as an UP uses a bit less than 1 GB in 24 hrs.