Browse host feature
 

I bought Limewire 2.5.3 yesterday. How do I get the "browse host" button on the search window to work? I saw nothing in the doc.

Browse Host
 

It looks like the browse host thing only works if another user has 2.5.3 ... when you search for ... whatever ... and start downloading ... whatever ... right click a user in the download windows ... click browse host ... it creates a new search showing what that user is sharing ... I just wonder what the limit is ... I'm sharing nearly 45 gigs of stuff ... will somone see all 45 gigs ... and my question is how much bandwidth is that going to take ...

Did you notice when you installed 4.5.3 ... it cataloged all your files? Mine did ... it took half the day. :p only somewhat amusing.

Hello!

Yes only other LimeWire 2.5.3 users are accessible trough the Browse Host function and that is because the LimeWire team wants it to be more stable then the previous Browse Host function was.

And the reason LimeWire takes forever to start up the first time is because it are Hashing all your files(attaching alphanumerical characters to them so that they can be identifyed as identical over the network when they gets duplicated and are available trough multiple sources hovewer this is not yeat implimented in the Requery Sent function so it is mainly a function for the future).The next time you start it up it will acctually start up slightly faster then the old version did especially like in your case you have alot of files in the Shared directory.