I'm getting frustrated with people connecting long enough to search and then disconnecting so I get about a meg or two of some file downloaded and then requery sent. Currently I'm providing a lot of popular files for sharing, and I leave LimeWire running 24/7 with a max upload of about 45kbps. I figure it's worth doing my part.

My idea was to maybe take advantage of the fact that people are downloading from me, by trying to download from them. Since I know they're getting a 700mb file from me, they'll be connected for a while - it seems reasonable then that I try to download files from them since they're more likely to stick around.

I've noticed there's a Browse Host feature on the search results window, but I can't find something similar in the monitor uploads window. I've tried typing the ip:port directly into the search any type filename field, but haven't had any success. Is there a way to manually specify the ip address of a host to browse? Is this a feature other people would find useful? Does this seem reasonable? I'm still pretty new to p2p file sharing, so help is very much appreciated.

-steved