could anyone help me out having problem wt host connection...just installed bearshare

Check the first three red Stickies at top of this section Host Connections
Admittedly the connection files might be somewhat out of date by now.

cant get bearshare connected

i have bearshare lite but the host not getting connected

Both the host file & connection installer have been updated. Certainly enough non-BearShare hosts. Best I can do. 19 ultrapeer hosts from late July. Chances are a few at least will have changed ip. Some were excluded due to their frequency of dynamic ip changes. But the very small number of BearShare ultrapeers, the dynamic ip issue & the natural coming & retiring of hosts from the network were reasons I had not updated the file since Jan 2016. The host file has a tendency to go out of date within a few months in regards to BearShare ultrapeers. One or two often stick around for a few years with the same ip address.
BearShare only needs to connect to one other BearShare ultrapeer & it should eventually find any other BearShare online (as long as the ultrapeer is non-firewalled.)

Find a download link here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/host-c...installer.html

I really need to update the hostiles also. It's so out of date. But converting from CIDR format is not fun.