That's probably a problem with the gnutella network. There are many leechers out there, so it's hard to find free download slots. - I also don't know what you are trying to download. For mp3s it still works well and for movies it seems to work well for the people who succeed connecting to me (that's about one out of 20,000 requests per day and if I was mean, I'd even have 12 connections at once so the ratio would go down to 1 out of 80,000 easily).