I'm not a freeloader - I keep TONS of stuff to share in my Limewire share folder and rotate it periodically to have fresh sharesies. But I'm with the other guy here: 2.9.8 sucks. I just d/l'd it and was VERY pissed off to find I cannot reset the number of connections higher. I don't pretend to be able to argue all the leaf vs. ultrapeer vs. whateverwhoosywhatsits and I'm not even gonna try. All I know is before I could find anything & everything & almost ALWAYS got a live d/l. Now even though my search results are fairly OK (not as good as before), I can't d/l ANYTHING. I keep getting this crap about "waiting for sources". Waiting my *** ... they are right there in the search results.

Fix it or put it back, but do something, folks, this sucks compared to before. Like I said, I don't pretend to understand how it is *theoretically* SUPPOSED to work. All I know is the RESULTS ARE NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE. And that's all I care about here: performance. It's gone down. End of story. No amount of logic over how it is SUPPOSED to be better is going to erase that. No amount of debate is going to make those downloads appear where they used to be but now are not thanks to 2.9.8 - and here I upgraded to be a good Gnutella citizen, too. *snort*