it certainly seems that you have some severe connection problems...for one thing, a simple trace of your IP address indicates that the closest nodes to your location (Israel) are very slow....very, very, slow....for another your problems using BearShare (a truly wonderful Gnutella client) are indicative of possibly being blocked by your provider....or maybe just a symptom of slow response times...

as far as being a leaf, you certainly don't 'have' to be an ultrapeer, and with your apparent connection problems, that would only make things worse....

have you verefied that your firewall (if you have one) is allowing BearShare to access the internet?...

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mm...i don't think that my location is metter-till the 3-4 last months BS downloaded in crazy sppeds...500,800 kb and even 2.0 mb!
i didn't change some settings in firewall,so i don't understand how can it change by itself(can it be?).
and if it's the reason please explain me how to fix it.what is the ports that i need to put in?

i just thougt about it now....maybe the reason for all these troubels is becuase i have a router??what are the ports to open it whith router??

i'm sure in 90% that this is the reason!