By downloading from them... Phex gives me this information... admittedly there is some issues involved in doing that, because in some cases someone sharing will disconnect and then phex will connect to someone else to download from, so I have to monitor who I am downloading. I will have to try to download a variety of files, from small to big, and diffrent formats and genre as a means of keeping diversity.

There is no exact way to do that, but someone who shares will more then likely have more experience and adding downloads counts from each client will grab a more diverse group of clients as oposed to monitoring just shared uploads alone.

How so? People who share make up a certain percentage of the entire network, they dont make up 50% of the network, but they do make up 25 to 10 percent of it. To not include that information is to be 25 to 10 percent off in our statistics.

That wasnt my point though, my point was that, that does affect our statistics. It does not need to be accounted for, but both users that share and dont share do affect our statistics.

I'm sorry you didnt quite understand this, maybe I worded it to wrong, but still we are talking about the same thing.