So, what am I doing wrong? I use to connect to about 30 hosts at once and received pretty good search results. Now I only get 10-50 results, if any, on the same (not porn!) requests I made before.

I used version 1.7 until resuming was fixed. Now, with this connection cap, I might have to go back to get some decent results, but then I can't swarm! What's with all this adding/removing features?

Having 30 connections hurts the network, so the LimeWire developers made 12 the maximum. Accept it or get another client.

Yes, that's what the dialog box SAYS. I doubt every other gnutella client on the network is using 12 connections or less. What surprises me is this hasn't been reported as an issue, so maybe someone out there who can tell me more than I already know has a suggestion for configuring the client better.