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Originally posted by rockkeys
By the way, if limewire is a gnutella client, why does it only connect to limewire peers? Is this intentional to force the restrictions of limewire onto every source that can be accessed? |
LimeWire allows connections to any gnutella client as long as it's up-to-date enough.
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| While gnutella says there are hundreds of copies of the files out there, I can't find them with limewire, because it restricts the TTL needed to get to those sources. |
Although you some sources may be more than 4 hops away, a TTL of 3 is enough to search a network that is more than twice as large as Gnutella.
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| THere must be a happy medium that will work better than what we have. While you say that Kazaa and gnutella can't really provide good performance, I'm getting 50K/sec downloads with gtk-gnutella, and peaks of 170K/sec on Kazaa when I can find a source that has a fat pipe. |
That's because neither gtk-gnutella nor KazaaLite are giving network health much consideration. That is no argument for LimeWire however, to do the same.