this is making too much of it all but I guess I'm starting to feel like either I'm missing some really startlingly obvious point about gnutella clients or else I really am having the point of my (really rather mild) query neatly side stepped - my question is this (now that we've established I'm not marginalised as a freeloader and there is constant traffic associated with uploads) - in both shareaza and LW I'm a leaf node because of my dial up connection - but in shareaza BS has a working 'presence' for me in a way that is not the case in LW - this appears to be something to do with the differences between LW and shareaza with respect to how they each monitor ultrapeer connections - the shareaza selection criteria - are - (whatever you say) working better for me and I'm (or rather was) interested as to why that would be the case

bad_vlad