Get on under you brother's username. Or change your username. No seriously, I suspect it's probably more related to the method your brother uses & the files he chooses. Try to choose files that are multi-star quality to dwnld. Also the more files there are in a group the better chance you'll have of finding one/more that's available to connect to. If there's more than one source to choose to dwnld from, choose that one (also/cancel the other.) Every now & again (not too frequently), do another search for that item so more sources might be found (keep in mind people are logging on & off the network all the time.) You can also try cancelling the cued file & reselecting it to dwnld it again. Hope that's of help. Meanwhile beat your brother with a feather duster for being such a smarty.