it certainly seems that you have some severe connection problems...for one thing, a simple trace of your IP address indicates that the closest nodes to your location (Israel) are very slow....very, very, slow....for another your problems using BearShare (a truly wonderful Gnutella client) are indicative of possibly being blocked by your provider....or maybe just a symptom of slow response times...

as far as being a leaf, you certainly don't 'have' to be an ultrapeer, and with your apparent connection problems, that would only make things worse....

have you verefied that your firewall (if you have one) is allowing BearShare to access the internet?...

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