'Hits' just shows the number of times that one of your files has appeared in someone else's search results.
Say if you were sharing a file called 'the black cat sat on the mat'...every time that one of those words appears as a search result will be a hit. It doesn't mean that someone's looking for your file specifically - if someone searched for a file called 'the cat sat' or 'the black mat' or 'the cat mat' then your file might show up in their search.

So the number of hits that you see doesn't really reflect the number of people who are searching for your exact file

Are you sure that other people can't access your network? I've replied to your other thread here about router security: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...tml#post329646 - have a look in your router's manual & see whether you can add a WAP or WEP key as extra security.

If that's not the problem, then I don't know. Someone else might have more ideas.