I think you should allow free upgrdes during a 12-month month period. Whatever you do, please keep paying customers like me in the loop. Thanks.

P Tobin

No, Bearshare IS NOT better than LimeWire. I tried most of the Gnutella clients, and Limewire seems to be the best of them.
My only problem is content, which is the networks problem, not the clients.

And mine, of course

I've tried them all, and they all seem to work fine for me. My current concern with limewire and the requests to upgrade ..... is that after 2.3.3 they killed all options of allowing me (on my 45MEG DS3, to connect to more than 12 hosts at a time. This dropped my available connected data from 1500TeraBytes down to merely 5-10Terabytes at best. (usually I would connect to 99 hosts at a time - so long as my CPU held up - because my Internet never got clogged.)

I decided that this is when the Network took a severe drop in quality. I cannot connect to as many places, so i no longer feel the need to leave my client up 24/7 anymore, and allow my hundreds of Gigs of data to the world. I figure many others are doing this too.

Another important fact is that they have destroyed the requery system, so it makes no sense to leave our limewires running since no matter how long we use it, it wont get files accept while we are actively sitting at the computer to manually re-search.

If I get daring, I may download the open source, and hack it to allow me to more fully utilize my Internet connection, and put back the features that I need to successfully collect 20gig a day, as was possible before.

But for now, even though i use 2.9.8 with an average of 500gig available to me (lame - because it only connects to 3 hosts!), I still usually find 99% of my files using 2.3.3 and dont intend to upgrade it.

In the meantime, I do find best success by attempting to load multiple software clients at once. None really seems to outshine any other yet.

You cannot hack LimeWire into doing requeries because other LimeWires will filter those requeries when they encounter them. LimeWire completely disabled queries by hash.

Besides 2.3.3 requeries have been filtered by all LimeWire ultrapeers for a long time, so your requeries never actually improved your download experience.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

Thanks for the update. Possibly some other clients accept requeries... besides limewire, and perhaps some older limewire clients still accept them. I agree with you that if limewire is filtering them, then it would not make a significant improvement to my download experience. But at the moment, I still tend find quite a few requiries working. I can only attribute this to the fact that there are older limewire clients and non-limewire clients connected to the same network.

I do appreciate your explanation, and I will forget the idea about hacking it to work, since I cannot affect the filters of everyone else.

I upgraded, and silly me! I expected better performance. A search that previously gave me 200+ results now gives me a whopping 30, and none of them are legitimate. There is no place that I can adjust the number of connections. I seem to only have three or four, and all are completely worthless. I've been a big supporter (paid and everything) of Limewire, but this upgrade has rendered it useless. Very disappointing indeed. Anybody know a good Mac client?

The new version improved the average number of search results (especially for rare content) significantly. But it also now limits the number of search results. You might have to refine your search (making it more exact by adding keywords for example) to get more results.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

"trap_jaw The new version improved the average number of search results (especially for rare content) significantly. "

but in a different thread you said.....

"However it is very likely that a search will return more results if it is really popular."

So which is it?

Don't get me wrong I really like Limewire, but I seem to have taken a big hit since I upgraded from 2.8.6.

I used to leave my machines on the network all the time because the requeiry feature did always find the files (sometimes it took a couple days, but I always got the file). I can't believe you took that away. This one change alone seems to have made the product useless. That and not being able to configure the number of connections.

I don't see a contradiction, so I'd say both. Rare files can be found more easily. The number of search results is now limited by the ultrapeers you are connected to but searches for popular content return more results than they should (the result limit is at 240 results atm but you might still get some 400 or 500 results).

Yes, but the traffic the requery feature caused was more than the network could manage. The number of searchable ultrapeers had been limited drastically so LimeWire decided to filter all requeries by all servents so manual queries could reach more ultrapeers and effectively search a bigger part of the network.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

But if you've limited the number of ultrapeers I can connect too (now 3 instead of user defined), didn't my search results become just as limited, but now I can't auto-retry?

I'm realy not trying to be a butt about this, but I can't leave my computer on to just find things, AND my result lists are smaller. I could live without the retry if I always found (and downloaded) what I was after on the first search. But that still isn't the case. My search results are smaller and it doesn't retry. This seems to be a step backwards to me.

I'm guessing though if I understand everything that has been said (on a couple of different boards) that if EVERYONE was on 2.9.x then life would be perfect and we would all get great results. But is it really realistic to expect everyone to upgrade?

Your theoretical network horizon (the number of hosts you could reach if your searches weren't ever dropped by other ultrapeers) has always been greater than the actual network size, - even if you would connect only to one ultrapeer you should (in theory) be able to search the whole gnutella network. The problem is that the network is overloaded and that there are many freeloaders.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

KNOW WHAT I HATE???

STUPID ****ING PEOPLE CALLING **** SOMETHING IT'S NOT.

OR LIKE, WHEN THEY CALL CALL IT PHOTOSHOP AND AND IT'S BRITNEY SPEARS PORN.
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I SAW A FILE NAMED "NINE INCH NAILS WITH DAVID BOWIE (PINK FLOYD COVER) CONFORTABLY NUBM"

TURNS OUT THE FILE WAS NOT WHAT IT SAID AND NINE INCH NAILS NEVER EVEN DID A PINK FLOYD SONG WITH DAVID BOWIE.

AND MACROMEDIA IS VIRTUAL PC, AND VIRTUAL PC IS VIRTUAL GIRL.

AND YOU KNOOOWWW IT'S NOT FOTOSHOP WHEN THE FILE IS 2,000 KB

I THINK THIS IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE OVER ALL IN FILE SHARING. AND I AM GOING TO TAKE TIME OUT OF MY DAY TO SPAM THIS ALL OVER THIS FORUM, BECAUSE I FEEL IN MY HEART THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR IT.

Okay, I understand your reasons for telling us to update, but the program stopped working as well as the older ones. If you have problems with the software and cannot provide fixes, "Why am I paying for them?"..If it aint broke, DON'T FIX IT!!!

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You cannot remember your email address? That is what you need to download Limewire, the emaill address you gave them when you purchased it.

that last post was a bit starnje and i know what that guy means about miss named stuf but who can be assed to spam and spaming is bad