tried a direct connect to the cable modem....maybe a tiny bit faster, but no real difference. did find why the one value was false....that was a setting I'd changed in the prefs in trying to solve the lack of connections problem based on something I'd read in one of the forum threads, so now the incoming is true, but I'm still only getting a relative handful of available files/connections for some reason; rarely more than 100,000 mb as opposed to the usual 3,000 gb I've had up until recently.