Your guess is as good as mine. The problem we have been running into (a few have somehow avoided, while the rest of us struggle) is that no downloaded connection stays connected for more than 3-400K, then it disconnects, thus canceling any chance of a speedy download. I have done the CVS updates for both wxMac and aMule every few days and it still does this. I'm hoping the Mac aMule developers could find out WHY it is doing this and fix it! I'm having to run eDonkey to have a decent client right now and I HATE IT!