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Originally posted by Joakim Agren
Hello!
Most People on Gnutella these days are Leaf Nodes while some users are
Ultrapeers.The current outlook of Gnutella is that Leaf Nodes are
connected to a certain number of UltraPeers usually 3 whitch in turn
are connected to more Ultrapeers and Leafnodes.Only people with T1
connections and faster are allowed to act as Ultrapeers(Not Classical
Mac OS users). |
Operating systems not allowed to become an ultrapeer also include
Windows 95-ME, Windows NT. MacOSX will not try as hard to be an
ultrapeer either because LimeWire is far less stable on it than on
Windows 2000, XP and Linux/Solaris.
The speed requirement is not T1 but DSL. Future versions will allow
any connection speed faster than Modem to become an ultrapeer.
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To enable UltraPeer capabilitys you do the following:
Go to Tools>Options>Speed
and uncheck the Disable UltraPeer capabilitys option and also select
T1(1.5Mbit/s or faster) or T3(43Mbit/s or faster) as your connection
speed then click Apply then OK and then shut down LW and relaunch it
for the change to take effect.You will now be a UltraPeer instead of a
Leafnode. |
The speed selected by the user has no influence on it. LimeWire
calculates the true connection speed internally. "Disable Ultrapeer
Capabilities" is off by default.
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LeafNode is a good thing because it takes the traffic load of "weaker
users" and lets the big fat UltraPeers to take the big
hit. [/B]
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In the future LimeWire will allow many more ultrapeers and reduce the
number of leafs per ultrapeer to 30.