June 3rd, 2001
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 Re: Similar Problem
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I left LimeWire running today, but "Disconnected" when I left the house for several hours because I thought my firewall (ZoneAlarm) would kick in. When I came back home, and went to reconnect, I was surprised my Monitor screen showed a few new uploads. The red "Disconnect" light was still lit as I had left it, and more wierd, my firewall hadn't kicked in after the ten minute "no activity" setting I have it set at. I'm assuming continuous searches and passes had continued for the four hours I was gone, as it was the only App open. | I'm guessing both of you are on dsl/cable or higher. Also guessing when you connect to other hosts you get a big *** horizon. So you're "connected" to a lot of people. You open LimeWire for a minute and get 400 queries and say you have 200 that match your files. You "disconnect" and leave the app open and walk away. Come back and see you're uploading files to other hosts. Well when you "disconnected" the only thing you prevented were further queries. Those people who got those 200 search results back from you are searching through the list to find a good host to download from. Since you have the LimeWire (app) still open, people can still connect to you. B/c the port 6346 (or whatever you use) is still open and ready for a connection. They'll find a good connection and start downloadin. Thats why that happens. I use Freedom http://www.freedom.net and it lets people connect as long as I'm using LimeWire but once I close LimeWire it starts blocking. Quote:
It's no big deal -- I'm glad members found what they wanted -- but I'd have never given a thought to rebooting (and possibly dumping uploaders) since I thought I was disconnected. | Good job man. I wish we had more people like you. Keep it up!
We the users are the ones that must keep gnutella alive.  |
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