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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, guys! Thank you, 1c3d0g (what a username!). Also many thanks to Firon for the well-written FAQ section. My story: I'm a convert from Azureus. I liked that program pretty much but, boy, what a resource hog. One the main things I use my computer for is downloading files and it would slow down so much with Azureus I mainly downloaded stuff overnight and, I'm ashamed to say, was pretty much a leech. Then I heard about utorrent. Tried it and liked it right away. Initially, I was able to install and use it without any problems. Then about a week later I went wireless at home. I set up a Netgear Wireless Router (model WGR614 v6) and put a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter (model WPC54G) in my laptop. I noticed that my downloads basically stopped working. I was crushed. I tried some superficial things. Tried various torrents to make sure it wasn't just that. Tried to download the same torrents in Azureus, but got errors there as well. Finally, when all else failed... I read the instructions. The mini-guide directed me to the FAQ first, especially if I wasn't getting the Network OK message at the bottom of the screen. After some reading finally realized that it was a port forwarding issue. I had to login to my router setup page online and establish port forwarding specifically for utorrent. So I did that as well as followed all the suggestions in the mini-guide (whew!). Man I was at it for like 4 hours (so I'm slow, okay). Let me tell y'all something: With Azureus, my average download speed, even with the best torrents was around 70 - 100 kB/s; now with utorrent I just finished downloading a movie at the blazing speed of around 280 kB/s! Blazing baby!!!! And since utorrent is so light on resources I don't mind seeding files, in fact, I'm glad to do it. utorrent ROCKS!!! Hey, I know it can be frustrating if you have some problems starting out but I just want to tell everybody to hang in there, do the research, read, and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS! Thanks again, guys.