Guntella dying?
 

Is Guntella a dying breed? When I first started with Limewire right after Napster fell, it was nothing to connect and have access to 4 to 15 GB of files people were willing to share. That is a lot of information, songs, etc. Now, I am luck if there is 30 MB of shared data when I connect. Makes me think the Guntella network is withering and dying on the vine.

I have over 1400 files I share each time I sign on to the network, however I set my "freeloader" settings to hardly ever connect and actually set my number of shared files to a "fair" setting to ensure the people that are uploading my files are actually sharing themselves. If folks are not willing to share then they become moochers willing to take and take and NOT return, and its killing the network bigtime.

Please share you files, if you are expecting to find something here that you want. AND if you want something from me, you had better be willing to give back. I am tired of seeing less and less being shared all the time.

Dennis

Correction
 

My mistake, I meant to say it was nothing to see 4 to 15 TB being shared when I first started using Limewire, and its fell to only 30 MB if I am lucky. THAT is a big drop.

There is a bug in the Morpheus/Gnucleus clients which, when they switch to Ultrapeer mode, they screw up the passing of host names.

Watch your "connections" tab and kill all connections to Morph and Gnucleus .. you'll see 1+ terabytes

They actually consider this a feature, since it "saves bandwidth" (yeah, about .05 k/sec).

Anyway, the upcoming versions of LimeWire will be preferring LimeWire ultrapeers...

The file and host statistics have been wrong for a long time. We stopped forwarding the required data for "15 TB" of files because it was a big waste. The network is bigger than ever.

Thanks
-greg

I enjoyed seeing how big the bucket was. It the statistics do not work or not properly just remove them so as not to confuse the users. It made me fill like I had a better chance of downloading the file I was after if I know my pot was 15 TB and not 30 MB.

Yep, if it does not work, and you are not concerned with it, just remove it.

We did take it out. Users complained. We put it back in.

Other clients produce artificial estimates which is probably what we should do. However, making the product and network work better in many other ways is our highest priority.

Thanks
-greg