Well, thanks for the information. I'll get right to adding these to the "Keywords" section of the Filters.

I generally enjoy my Gnutella experience on LimeWire.. although I also share on eMule.

Sometimes I would do an audio search for a particular song, album, artist, etc. and get a thousand or more results as I was used to seeing a couple hundred or less.. it just fustrated me.

Since I'm on dialup (56k Modem) on a free ISP.. and I have a decent modem, and one of those spiffy internet modem cables (rather than use regular RJ11 phone cable) and well I was hoping adding a DSL filter would help cut down on line noise too.

I really hate those MP3 results that pop open a browser window!

My last pet peve on P2P is that people have very poor ID3 tag information on their MP3 files. This is why I use MediaMonkey and systematically erase all the ID3 info from every file I download.. and replace it with information found in one of the many popular databases out there. This is after which I have scanned the incoming for viruses. I have not had very good luck with AlbumArt though. I just wish more people did the same!

I also don't understand the .m4a results I seen once in a blue moon.

I guess I still need to work on the optimization of my connection and sharing speeds.

Greg

Spammed fake files, see more about it here Recognising fake files

When you see that many files in a search result (several thousand) then you can guess most will be fake. So try downlding those with just a few sources, & also those with Modem connections can be trusted here. For videos, don't forget to check user feedback using Bitzi.

LW 4.12.6 will stop those sponsored results, but now you need to worry about fakes. You'll know they're fakes because they attempt to connect for ages before giving up.

I've been doing some reading this evening in the thread mentioned, while watching my downloads move along at their own pace. Interesting reading.

After doing the things already mentioned, things have improved just in the past few hours.

I'm not sure how accruate my connection speeds are, as well as the true UL & DL speeds are. I'm not very far from my free local ISP. It's based in my area. 99.9% of the time I connect at 48 Kbps, but sometimes I can connect @ 49.2Kbps. The ISP has several local access #'s, and the same happens no matter which I used.

I figured a lot of the results would be junk, but then again I also am growing tired of the trash can in the quality column of the results. Could I improve this by retraining Limewire, and having it forget all the data it aquired?

Are there any tips for modem users? I'd like to see speeds better than 5-7KB/s (shown next to the green down arrow).

Would it be advantageous of me to share my whole collection, rather than the group of 200 finished files that I have? I have heard that the more you share the more people like to give up bandwidth, slots, etc.

Blitzi has been a help but I generally look for files with a vommon range of file size in a particular group and then restart a new search with the results I find to help narrow it down, with the advanced search options. I'm more apt to also download files of common bit rate.

I have seen the odd .pdf file with a bitrate too. I assumed this to be a junk file.

Greg