ultrapeer
 

is there anyway of ridding myself of the "ultrapeer" I really believe it hinders searching in a very large way.

Thanks

Do you mean a way of stopping yourself from being an ultrapeer? Tools > options > speed. Tick 'disable ultrapeer capabilities' & apply.

:)

no i mean ultapeers and the search engine or what ever they do it seems to me they limit searching

You'll need those ultrapeers so that you can search! You'll find that connecting to more ultrapeers, as in LW Pro, can give you greater search results.
Can't even remember where I got this info from (ages ago) but it explains pretty well:

" Ultrapeers are the backbone of the Gnutella network. An Ultrapeer handles most Gnutella traffic, shielding its Leaves from this traffic. Ultrapeers accept connections from the Leaves, giving them access to the network and handling their requests. Ultrapeers also connect to each other, bringing the network together, Leaves do not connect to each other. Leaves commonly do not meet the requirements for being an Ultrapeer.
If Ultrapeers are the backbone then without them all peers would be the same and form a much larger skeleton. Messages such as queries would have to travel further to reach the same number of people and so achieve the same result, that would take up much more bandwidth. Ultrapeers are chosen from the more capable computers and are able to form more simultaneous connections than many computers can, by doing this it takes fewer 'hops' for a message to reach it's target."

I understand that, somewhat, but then why am I limited to just 5 ultrapeers? I don't know I just feel that before this last upgrade to my limewire I had more search results. Oh well.

Thanks