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murasame · #2 (**permalink**) October 30th, 2004

LW makes you an Ultrapeer when you have a connection status that LW deems good enough to uphold that status. Namely, you're an Ultrapeer whenever you have a Turbocharged connection.
That is because an Ultrapeer is someone who will devote a small portion of bandwidth (I think that because of that reason, only broadband users may use this feature) to help people who haven't got a good connection to the Gnutella network. If you were an Ultrapeer with a Poor connection status, you wouldn't be the only one to suffer: all those leafs that would be connected (or would be trying to connect) to you would also suffer.
Sooooo, that is why you cna't maintain Ultrapeer mode all the time (unless your connection always is turbocharged)