Sometimes I have problems connecting to other people. Sometimes I can work around it by playing around with the AIM firewall settings, which can be found under "file transfer" or "file sharing" of preferences. There are three different options for the firewall: "incoming, outgoing, and AOL proxy server," "outgoing and AOL proxy server," and "AOL proxy server only." For people on the campus network, I keep it set to the first option and can send stuff at around 5 mbps. For people not on the network, I usually have to switch it to the 2nd setting to be able to even connect to them.