How do I know if I've become a ultrapeer?
 

I got a bunch of questions, answers to any appreciated. :)

• When I re-installed gnucleus just now, I noticed that the download numbers (bottom right corner of the window) which used to average 0.05kb/sec when idle, has suddenly shot up to 15kb/sec, similarly, the upload numbers went up to 20Kb/sec.
  
  These are the readings in IDLE mode, nothing is uppin or downing, but the numbers are still up. What happened? Did I become a ultrapeer? :confused: Everything still looks the same. What's happening here?
  
  In one post, someone said that a node doesn't promote to ultrapeer unless there is 512K + upload. I have a cable modem, but I'm nowhere near that speed - and this PC runs win98!
  
• My other issue is with the stats window. Mine doesn't seem to work at all?!? Almost everything reads "zero". Some IP numbers change on the firstpane, every other pane shows nothing. I ticked ping, pong, query, everything. Still nothing. This has always been like that, even before the re-install.
  
  Other clients have very detailed stats windows, but gnucleus does not show anything. What's up?
  
• Why do I have to re-install gnucleus so often? ??? Every re-install means that the lists of hosts gets erased, and I have to start from zero again. Does anyone else have this problem?
  
• When the initial connect happens and it says "undetermined at 0.00kb/sec", the entire computer slows down for upto a minute. Things return to normal when the download / upload gets going. A lot of gnucleus crashes came because of this slowdown phase.
  
  Is there anything I can do to change settings to prevent this slowdown?
  

Thanks for all replies.

You can check the results on http://www.gnucleus.com/research/mapping.html

You can check whether you are an ultrapeer if you right click on a connected host in the advanced tab and click on more info.

Then you have to check whether your client has responded with X-Ultrapeer: True.

No, currently there's nothing like Shareaktor, or yes...
Theres Bitzi.com

Thanks for info, Paradog. :)

Yes, it's OK. I checked in the browser window, and it says "running in SuperNode mode". That's what accounts for the extra traffic.

I also checked Bitzi. One thing about them worries me - that we are uploading to them a list of files which we have on our HDD.

Supposing they co-relate that info with our IP info, then they can submit to RIAA or other agencies a list of the biggest file owners. I posted a question about this in their forum, but the post was not accepted.

Thats not really correct.
You can check the file stats on Bitzi, that doesnt mean you own the file or you are going to download it right?

If you want to upload any information on a file you have you need to download program called The Bitzi Bitcollider Utility

Currently the gnutella clients like RAZA, LIME or BEAR only use Bitzi for lookup, so its quite one-way.

What I mean is that if you SUBMIT metadata to them, you are submitting a list of files you own. If that info is co-related with IP info, it can potentially be used against you.

No one seems to address this point. I checked on their site and my post is nowhere to be seen. They must have supressed it.

You are just submitting the hash.
No one said that you were downloading it.
I can go to amazon.com and view the list of the songs from an album, does that mean I'm going to download it somewhere illegal?