AFAIK LW is set to search in the immediate area vaguely determined by language & culture. In earlier versions of LW there was an extra option in regards to this. So thus to my understanding OOB (Out of bound) search is out of the immediate area which I suspect is best used for searching for rarer files or files that might belong to other languages. So what you suggested might hold some weight here. Since I am surrounded by south east asian cultures that don't sit in the middle of the ocean. And I am aware I get uploaders (& downld from) people from SE Asia, USA, Europe, etc. basically all over. But the majority are probably more on my side of the time line or side of the map ... whoever drew it up. If it was the chinese then it's read right to left & not left to right. If it was by the english then it was definitely right to wrong way of doing it. lol :D

Ranges unavailable only mean that you are sharing a file and that you are in the download mesh. However, the file you share and that you are currently downloading isn't completely downloaded so some chunks are unvailable for downloaders. When they ask for a chunk you don't have, you answer as range unavailable.

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Thanks for explaining the mystery - you learn something new every day !

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My Grandfather always said if you didn't you wasted that day.

Yep, partial file sharing. I had deleted my preferences before using LW this time around. So this setting was different to usual. I can confirm the file they're trying to upload is one I'm downlding. Someone is uploading it, there's many in the queue from all walks of gnut clients, & all of those that are showing the Range Unavailable are trying for the same file. It's over 1 GB in size & presently 69% downlded. I didn't notice if it was the same file yesterday since there were a lot more getting this status for obvious reasons. I only started downlding it yesterday.