Hello Stief,


Thanks for your reply (sorry this ones a bit belated). I have a mac running on OSX, but is linked to the net (via a broadband/cable connection) with three other PC's on a small network. So judgin by all the strings I'm reading, i could'nt have a worse setup if I tried!! I'm not particularly literate with proxy's et al. but i have disabled the firewall on the mac, and opened access to port 6346 (for the gnutella stream). Is my ISP restricting access to the gnutella network or do I have mess around with the Firewall security of the other PC's in the network?
I am still unfortunately gettin the red dot and only brief flashes of green for a second or so.
Many thanks for any advice offered (by anyone!)

ells