Can you tell me where I would look to determine my status? I assume, from my typical connection to 3 UPs, that I am a leaf. I often (3-5 x per week) leave my LW connected overnight, what else can I do to bump my status?

Please let me clarify, I did ready the sticky, I'm not trying to 'force' an upgrade to my status because based on my ISP, my wireless router and my lack of techno-savvicity I don't think I can 'force' an upgrade. So I'm curious how this upgrade would occur naturally.

Thanks ~

To become an ultrapeer, you need to have a reasonably fast connection speed & not be firewalled (ie not see the brick wall firewall icon). Providing you're not firewalled, you'll connect as an UP when the network needs UPs.

To see whether you're a leaf or an UP, click on LW's Connections tab...your connection status shows in the top left corner, just above the column headers. Yep, if you're only connected to 3 UPs then you're a leaf. If you're connected as an UP then you'll see heaps of connections to peers (other UPs) & leaves in that connections pane