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Old December 21st, 2001
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Default Limewire on OS X using 2.0 doesn't work

I can't get it to connect to many servers, after having it up for about 5 min I only have 3 hosts connected with a total of 80 megs.... very bad, any idea how to fix this?
Email me at ZACINCCEO@aol.com
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right there with ya...I have like two connections on a T1 line after ten minutes....
I try to add servers, but nothing happens...
I actually miss the old version crashing, at least it connected first, right?
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Old December 21st, 2001
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This is the way it's supposed to work. With the new network structure (with UltraPeers) you do not need to open nearly as many connections to get just as good search results. In fact, you cannot open more than one connection when you become a client peer, meaning that an UltraPeer is acting as a sort of "proxy" for you on the network, shielding you from message traffic, and saving all of your bandwidth for uploads and downloads.

Give it a little time. It's a far more efficient way for the network to run, and I guaruantee that you'll like it better over the long term.
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Yes but it is VERY slow
I am on a DSL and I have 2 hosts and 70 files after 10 min!!!!

-Zac
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This is the way it's supposed to work. With the new network structure (with UltraPeers) you do not need to open nearly as many connections to get just as good search results. In fact, you cannot open more than one connection when you become a client peer, meaning that an UltraPeer is acting as a sort of "proxy" for you on the network, shielding you from message traffic, and saving all of your bandwidth for uploads and downloads.

Give it a little time. It's a far more efficient way for the network to run, and I guaruantee that you'll like it better over the long term.
I don't know what you mean by getting the same search results. I have a win2k machine with 1.8c and a Mac OSX machine with the 2.x client. They are right next to each other and on the same network connection. I do the same exact search on them. The win2k machine gets at least 20-100 hits. The OSX machine gets 0, sometimes 1. This isn't just for one type of search, I have done a few hundred searches already since 2.x came out to test it out. Since I can't get mac software from my OS X box, I have been downloading it from my win2k machine and then ftping it to my OS X machine. Talk about efficient....sure.....
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Default I feel your pain

2.0 isn't giving nearly as many hits as 1.8. Even within 2.0 search results seem inconsistent. I've had this happen: Do a search. Get a hit (You won't get more than a few with Version 2). Do the same search again. The original result doesn't show up. Yet you can go back to the first search and download the file. So the file is still available, but it's not showing up consistently when you search for it.
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Angry Not working the way it is "supposed" to...

I agree. The ultrapeer implementation for OSX is not working correctly. I understand the potential benefits of this system, but it is not implemented well in this release. Ultrapeer seems to completely inhibit search results...I get NONE! What's worse, I am not able to "save" my preference selection asking that ultrapeer not be used.
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I agree to, the searches repport only a fragment of the hits I got with 1.7
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Old December 24th, 2001
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Just thought I'd add my voice to this. I have tried LimeWire 2.0 a number of times (the 'paid for' version, as $6 was so reasonable) but I don't think I ever managed to get more than a few dozen megabytes of searchable stuff even if I left it alone for an hour.
By way of contrast, if I quit 2.0 and launch LimeWire 1.8c I get thousands of Mb in very short order, and often reach terabytes after a minute or two.

I applaud you guys for pushing the development forward, but it does seem that there's an issue here. In case it helps, here are some config details:

OS: Mac OS X 10.1.1
h/w: G3
connection: basic ADSL, dynamic IP address
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Are Limewire developers aware of this problem?

All responses from them confirm that only one ultrapeer connection is supposed to show up, but that is not the problem.

Using 2.0.2 (?) on OS X, Limewire usually has access to only 65-128 MB of files. If I'm lucky, 2000MB!
Running 1.7c at the same time yields 28TB of files.

Something is wrong.

Thanks for listening.
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