Dropped % Meanings
 

I see 56%/0% in the Dropped catagory in the Connections Tab of my Limewire 4.2.6. I noticed that my Limewire is FAILING to connect as an Ultrapeer, even though it has connected at Ultrapeer with 30+peers and 30+leafs daily since I first loaded v4.2.6 a long time ago. At this minute im stuck as a leaf with 5 connections.) I never changed the version or anything on my computer or connection recently.

My theory is that my ISP has broken something and is being a peice of crap. Therefore, i would like someone to explain to me if i am reading this right before I complain to them (assuming it doesn't clear up in a day or two).

I believe what I'm seeing is Incomming Drops of 56% with my outgoing data failing 0% of the time. This means that ISP doesn't have enough pipe (bandwidth) to accept all my data, or at least that there are drops resulting in retransmits 56% of the time. This could be because of ISP bandwidth limiting, bottlenecks within the path to the Boarder Gateway upstream, or a hardware issue.

Can anyone shed any further light on my issue? Or give educated opinions on whether i should bother my ISP with this? Thanks.

- Cougar

The incoming dropped % number when running as a leaf is rather meaningless. We haven't had a chance to fix it since it's not terribly important.

LimeWire will connect as an ultrapeer only when the network needs it to. Connecting as a leaf doesn't mean anything is wrong, it just means the network decided it didn't need an Ultrapeer.

Thank you. I'm honored to hear from a Software Developer who probably knows the insides of Limewire well.

I suppose I wont bug my ISP then. I am still surprised that for the first time in many months, it chose to do me as a leaf. Usually, I might connect as a leaf after a computer crash, but then once I'm turbocharged... disconnect and reconnect, and it always puts me back to ultrapeer. But not this time. So its unusual and weird to me.

This reason I even care about this, is because my search results are HORRIBLE today. Usually i have great results, but its clearly stripped down to a minimum as a leaf. My DS3 has plenty of bandwidth, so I'm hoping its not my ISP that is making the network decide that im not the best choice for ultrapeer anymore.

If there any other educated thoughts by anyone... im interested to hear you. Thanks. :)

- Cougar