I would really like to be an ultrapeer but it just takes up to much bandwidth. I had around 80 connected leaf's and was still going up and my upstream was saturated. I'm on ADSL 1.5mbit / 256mbit. What I want to know is there a way to limit the amount of leafs that connect so I can continue to upload and download while at the same time being an ultrapeer?

The maximum for leaf nodes has been set to 75, it can't rise any higher. The upstream that can be used for outgoing messaging connection has been limited to 15000 bytes per second (at least int the cvs code).

Now that I think about it I had 81 connections and I had 6 in the connection box, so yeah 75 is right. Still though 15 KB is to much, thats over half of my upstream, oh well. Thanks for the information!

i think the 75 does not include connections to other ultrapeers!?

well being a ultrapeer takes alot of bandwidth and there is no way around it except with less connections. but with too less the whole ultrapeer thing does not make sense.

I have been running as ultrapeer on adsl quite successfully. but when i'm in ultrapeer mode i do not download or upload. because it slows down too much. however i quit my test and went back to normal mode. because it is more helpfull for the network if only those who are capable of being an ultrapeer are running as one.

no one want's to be connected to a bad ultrapeer as a leaf. so on ADSL you should only be one or the other i think.
As ultrapeer with a horizon of 8 Terrabyte (that's 8000 gigabytes ) of data i couldn't find a visible improvement in the search results.

mahalo.