Is there a chance that you live in Canada & either use the services of shaw or rogers cable? If you answer yes to this question, your service provider is probably limiting your upload/ download bandwith through ports etc... (I am not an expert, I am just trying to give you this answer through things that I have read). If anything, I don't know if this will help you, but when I switched to a DSL provider, the difference was unreal!! By using the word "unreal", yes it was only on winmx, other things worked just fine with the cable provider while on other sites for example: Kazza. bearshare etc...., but those darn cable providers seemed like they had something againest Winmx. I was extremley content when I switched to my DSL Provider, mainly because winmx is my favorite P2P site. Perhaps switching to DSL might solve some of your problems?