I've tried them all, and they all seem to work fine for me. My current concern with limewire and the requests to upgrade ..... is that after 2.3.3 they killed all options of allowing me (on my 45MEG DS3, to connect to more than 12 hosts at a time. This dropped my available connected data from 1500TeraBytes down to merely 5-10Terabytes at best. (usually I would connect to 99 hosts at a time - so long as my CPU held up - because my Internet never got clogged.)

I decided that this is when the Network took a severe drop in quality. I cannot connect to as many places, so i no longer feel the need to leave my client up 24/7 anymore, and allow my hundreds of Gigs of data to the world. I figure many others are doing this too.

Another important fact is that they have destroyed the requery system, so it makes no sense to leave our limewires running since no matter how long we use it, it wont get files accept while we are actively sitting at the computer to manually re-search.

If I get daring, I may download the open source, and hack it to allow me to more fully utilize my Internet connection, and put back the features that I need to successfully collect 20gig a day, as was possible before.

But for now, even though i use 2.9.8 with an average of 500gig available to me (lame - because it only connects to 3 hosts!), I still usually find 99% of my files using 2.3.3 and dont intend to upgrade it.

In the meantime, I do find best success by attempting to load multiple software clients at once. None really seems to outshine any other yet.