any advantages to deleting ultrapeers when a search fails?
 

As I understand it, LW pro connects to a maximum of 5 ultrapeers. When a search goes out... those UPs relay it to X hops to other UPs. So if it's 3 hops... then I assume that I'm reaching 5x5x5 or 125 UPs. Is that the correct way to look at this?

Often what I'm searching for is rather obsure and I get no results. So is there any advantage to deleting one's list of UPs and getting another? Would that help? Or would I just be reconnecting with the same UPs by a different route?

If I do delete my list will they EVER come back? Or are does LW store that list as it does ban host?

Thanks!

Well, I've removed ultrapeers before & found slightly different search results. To be honest though, I've got no idea whether the results were different because of a change in ultrapeers or whether I was seeing different results because new hosts had logged on & so new files were available for sharing!!
LW won't ban ultrapeers if you remove them... you'll just connect to different ones;)

I've run LW and FW at the same time and have done identical/simultaneous searches and while there is on occasion some overlap, sometimes the results are soooooo different, I feel like it's two networks. Since I'm not sure it's a good idea to run both, I was hoping to expand searches by experimenting with the UP mix.