Thanks, that throws a bit of light on the issue. I understand from that, we need to look for hit responses sent out, not hit responses received. For me it brings up a question over the wording on the charts.

On 2.8.4 I do not see the statistics option you suggest:
advanced -> gnutella -> sent -> tcp

I do see:
advanced -> gnutella -> sent -> LimeWire Messages -> Number -> TCP -> Query Hits
it brings up a chart headed "TCP query hits from all Gnutella clients versus other LimeWires"

If the wording were changed to:
"TCP query hit responses sent to all Gnutella clients versus other LimeWires"

Would this be more accurate ?