heh, 'lollipop' is good. I'm used to 'beachball.'

I'm still puzzed though, because LW connects as an ultrapeer very quickly on startup here (not a fair check, I agree).

Anyway, a workaround might be to make yourself a more 'desirable' host by sharing more popular files. If others want to connect to you, that should improve the speed at which others accept your connection requests.

Still, that would defeat the bandwidth savings because your upload bandwidth would increase. However, if you can afford the bandwidth, that might be something to try.

Cheers