Add/Remove Connections
 

Hi. When you use the remove button via the connection tab within LimeWire, does it permanently block that host thereafter? Now when I use LimeWire, it will only connect to 3 Outgoing hosts. I have Ultrapeer enabled and have not had this problem until recently. Any help appreciated

AFAIK, it doesn't permamently block the host. In order to do that, you would have to enter the host's IP in the filter hosts list in the limewire options under filter/hosts.

When you're connected to only 3 hosts, that means you are running as a leaf, which is perfectly ok. You can only allow ultrapeer in the options, this doesn't mean limewire has to run as an ultrapeer. Whether limewire runs as an ultrapeer or a leaf depends on factors like the quality of your internet connections and others.

IMO, there doesn't seem to be much of an advantage to running as an ultrapeer. It doesn't provide substantially better search results and as ultrapeer, limewire spends bandwidth and cpu % for routing limewire messages.

Ultrapeer IS on though (I do not have Disable Ultrapeer checked). Anyways, with or without it check in options, I'm set as a leaf node (b/c in monitor it says I'm a leaf node when I enable searches). In my other post, I asked how to reset all of LimeWire's options, like deleting a registry key (folder?).

Would resetting all the settings work? How would I do so?

i'm not sure i understand what you're looking for...

afaik, the only influence you have on becoming an ultrapeer or not is whether you check the 'allow...' checkbox. and that only ALLOWS you to become an ultrapeer, it doesn't FORCE ultrapeer.

ultrapeer or not depends on factors that you can't influence with any options or settings, like your available bandwidth.

the only influence you have is make sure that your router passes port 6346 on to your machine.

but, again, being an ultrapeer is really not that cool, it doesn't give you substantially more search results and you can upload less because bandwidth is used for traffic communicating with 30ish instead of 3 hosts.

Ah I see. But, I do wish to remove all my saved settings... How would I do that? It appears that uninstalling didn't help...

If you're OS 9, go to your preferences folder and delete the LW prefs.

I'm kinda new to X, so I'm not sure where all the preferences are, or if it's alright to delete them.

I'm on Windows XP

There must be some sort of "set to default" option. See if you can find that. Otherwise, I really don't know, I don't work with Win XP often enough to really know it that well. Sorry. Someone else here will know though I bet.

Thanks for your help

If you know how to help please explain what I can tell you about my computer if that will assist you in helping me...

Please tell me what I can tell about my computer so that you might be able to further assist me...

resetting user settings
 

I don't know about XP, but in 2000 you go to Documents and Settings/your username/.limewire

move the files limewire.props and tables.props out of that folder (don't delete them just in case). these are your user settings.

if you also want to get rid of the host cache, also move gnutella.net out.

then restart limewire and it should be like new (limewire will create new .props and a new gnutella.net file, if you want your old settings back, just copy the old files back and overwrite the new ones).

sorry, it took me a while to figure out what you wanted. i hope that helps.

if you want to force ULTRAPEER mode add the following to your limewire.props file:

EVER_SUPERNODE_CAPABLE=true
FORCE_SUPERNODE_MODE=true

I just uninstalled Limewire 2.9.11 (I think that was what it was). Now that I did that, and have rebooted several times since then, are all my previous settings gone? If not, what should I do?

Do a search for "lime" or "limewire" on your harddrive and delete anything if you find anything left.