Ultrapeer makes me not want to use limewire
 

This message is for the developers of limewire. I keep experiencing the same problem as apparently everyone else using limewire version 2.0 . Ultrapeer is supposed to be so much more efficient and widen your connections. But unfortunately it does the exact opposite. Their is major usablility problems with this new version, people get frustrated and will eventually find another way to connect to the gnutella network. I have cable internet, I could usually be connected to at least a few hundred hosts, I could find anything I wanted. I was a big advocate of limewire. Now i am unable to find anything. I might have better luck finding a song on napster instead of 2.0. Please do something about this, the request is coming from many and should be taken care of immediately. I would personally consider purchasing the other limewire version, but since the free test version doesn't work, I will not waste my money. These are factors you should be considering.

I got around the ultrapeer sillyness this way:
first I tell it that my sytem has a T3 line
then I set the connection number to 50
and I remove the ultrapeer host. It automatically connects to the 50 servers.
If you are lucky, they are not ultrapeers.
As soon as you see some connections established, lower the connection number.
There you are... a 'normal' gnutella connection.

That reminds me that I still am declared as T3.
No idea if I fall back to ultrapeer if I lower that.

George

UltraProblematic
 

I agree, UltraPeer is an UltraPain. I was an UltraChump and purchased LimewirePro, which also comes with UltraPeer. Now I share files with thousands times fewer hosts than I used to before I installed the 2.0 version of LimeWire. I've tried George's solution, but so far to no avail

I was even going to make a nice donation to LimeWire thru PayPal because of pleasant past experieces with earlier versions of their product. Now my donation is on hold until they clear up the UltraPeer UltraProblem.

Disgruntled in Palm Desert Dave

UltraPeer Bites!
 

I have been using Limewire with a T1 for a long time...I went from 10 Host connections to 1...what the hell! I was a big advocate until now...Hope you fix it soon.

Dave in VT

I can't realize how this version was released to the market...does limewire not test their programs before launch a new version???
They say Limewire is the bes solution for connect your computer to the gnutella network but at last is the worst, and that's no joke!!!

My sugestion is you uninstall lime and try gnucleus, it has multi host downloads and stability.

Try it you might like it. :)

Limewire looked like they had finally gotten it right. They added swarming and Ultrapeer support. The problem is that the way they are implementing ultrapeers is that it sucks. I'll try the program again sometime in the future. I'll stick with a hacked version of Xolox that does auto research and swarming. I get wonderfull results in Xolox and the longer I leave the search running the better the results are. In Limewire I'm lucky to get a tenth of what I would get in Xolox. Too bad they don't make Xolox anymore or I wouldn't even be looking. Right now it's still better than anything else out there.

Yes,

This version of LimeWire with UltraPeer sucks. Here is what I would like to see:

1. A connection management interface that maximizes the number of available files for the number of connections available

2. A persistent search engine that doesn't take no for an answer

3. A download routine that checks line speed and downloads from the fastest server

How long has Gnuetella been around? Is this stuff that hard to program?

Check the Disaple Ultrapeer Capabilities Box, in speed section.

Works great

I don't know what you did, but that's only workin' for you.

I think that this option only prevents other clients from using you as an ultrapeer host. It does not stop your client from only connecting to ultrapeer hosts.

Regards

For your ultrapeer answers (and to clear some confusion)
 

Check this thread....

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...?threadid=6292

It seems alota people don't quite get the idea yet.

yah I think we get the idea, we just dont like it. the only people who seem to benefit from ultra-peers are modem users. I don't think that those of us with good bandwidth gain any benefits at all. I personally believe we would be better off by somehow getting modems off the gnet, making it an all broadband network.

I dont hate people with modems, I mean we all can't afford broadband, I understand this. But I pay the extra for a bigger pipe, so maybe I should have the option of accessing a network with others of comparable bandwidth.

Perhaps a client could separate high and low bandwidth onto two seperate handshakes. gnutella and gnutella light?

Anyway I dont mean to frag on anyone, this is just an idea K? :)

Actually, I don't see how the idea in and of itself will benifit modem users any more than it will broadband... perhaps I've missed something.

From what I can tell, the only reason everything isn't hunky dory right now is due to three issues.

1. people don't understand what is happening. and get upset over something that really isn't happening.
2. the number of ultrapeers is still low.
3. people are 'hacking' their way into being peers even though they aren't willing to commit the time or bandwidth to actually support that, screwing their clients when the peer drops 30 minutes into a session.

None of these things are affected by your connection type.

since modem users are unlikely to become peers without 'hacking' in the new 'world order', this should actually help things. You no longer have to worry about 3 of your 4 connections (or however many you have) being eaten them.

EVERYBODY disable Ultrapeer!
 

I just downloaded and installed 2.0.. seems ok except this ultra peer thing. It was making me crazy until I came and read about all of you.
Here is what I do with EVERY program I install. I always save the old one just incase. I have installed on my PC and can use Limewire 1.7, 1.8 and 2.0
For now, why don't we ALL disable ultrapeer.????
I also wish all users... of all programs... would set the prefs and options in the friggin program after they install it instead of taking the installed program at its default settings. PLEASE tell others.

Thank you, Kevin