I've been using BearShare 2.1.0 for over a month now and still cannot download anything. I always get one of the following: Refused, Busy, or Down.
On the two occassions that I've actually started downloading something, I get kicked off within the first 2 minutes or so.

I have at least 10 connections under Hosts, but I have been unable to connect to gnutellahosts.com:6346 because of Down, or No Service messages.

I'm using ZoneAlarm, but I've allowed Bearshare to act as a server. I've also tried with ZoneAlarm off, but the results are the same.

Is is always like this? I'm pretty frustrated. To me, it looks like this P2P is completely worthless.