What is the Quality rating of the file (how many stars)? Most people have difficulty dwnlding files that only have a single/2 star rating in the search window. Always try for those that have 3 or 4 stars. You can go to your LW menu Tools-Options-Searching-Quality & set the minimum. This will filter out of your search results those that have poor connection reliability. What will be left should be easier to connect to. Those that have multiple sources should also be easier to dwnld from. Also add .avi to your searches if it is specifically avi files you want. Hope this helps.