nice program...

here's what I noticed (and it's typical of all the versions of BS5.1.0b25)....upon first run it takes a while to get connected and then only connects to LW hosts...pfffffffffffffftttt....furthermore it won't get connected to any BS hosts even after an hour....

what I did was to simply kill the program and then restart and was immediately connected to BS hosts and went into full ultra peer mode...the only drawback to this is I also was immediately the victim of COUNTLESS DDOS attacks...on the flip side being connected to LW hosts gave virtually no search results

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Were they LimeWire 4.21.1 (rc) hosts, if so get rid of them. They're spammers. Also if you block port 27016 from your firewall this will help stop connecting to some spammers. Rather embarrassingly I found my Gnucleus connection file had 30% of these spammers with port 27016. Fixed now though after Birdy's advice about the firewall and her research on LimeWire 4.21.1 on my behalf.

I suspect the new gwebcache sites are more trusty than the old ones that come with the full-version regular BearShare installer. At least one of the old gwebcache sites seems to give out-of-date connection data (but perhaps that was just the effect on me.)