Time to live is not well-enough documented. It may appear to be self-explanatory. However, I am having trouble understanding the difference between "Max TTL" and "My TTL" values.

It appears as if one of them refers to a values that helps determine whether a query recieved from a peer should be forwarded to other peers, while the other is used to determine of queries coming from peers should be passed further.

Documentation avoids this topic. The interface simply says that if I don't know what this means, I shouldn't mess with it...

So, which is which?

Thanks.

-= onTy =-

"My TTL" refers to, (gee, this is a hard one!), your TTL. "Max TTL" refers to what incoming messages that exceed this number should be dropped down to. DO NOT CHANGE THESE VALUES UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. I thought that was pretty clear from the UI note.

-Yytrium-

Yytrium, thanks for your quick reply. Your note was indeed very clear about not changing them unless I knew what I was doing. But I had no obvious tools to get from not knowing into knowing.

I did, however, later find that bring the mouse over the appropriate box gives adequate help in a tooltop. But I found no way to get same text displayed by other means. Maybe putting same text into the FAQ would cut out a few questions... Or maybe the window could have a tiny question mark in top right corner, which if clicked and then followed by a click on the text box, would display the same info.

Just suggesting. I know this enhancement request will have a very low priority, but I felt I should make this note.

You guys did a fine job overall. Thanks for a good Gnutella client.

[tt]-= onTy =-[/tt]

Well, Shaun is the one who deserves all the thanks. He's the coder/modest guy. I'm the webmaster/flame guy. The help file is being worked on for the next release, and perhaps something should be thrown in about it. ATM it says "it's unlikely you'll ever need to change these values..." and yada..

-Yytrium-