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Old December 29th, 2005
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Well, it looks like you're in Hawaii, and LimeWire does some things to try and query nearby nodes before querying nodes further away. Hawaii isn't horribly far from Japan, so a lot of Japanese Gnutella nodes are probably querying Hawaiian Gnutella nodes.

(LW actually tries to first query nodes that can respond quickly, but response time is getting closer and closer to being limited by signal propagation speed... especially in areas connected to the rest of the world by satellite links and/or long underwater cables... places like Japan and Hawaii. This means that the quickly responding nodes are likely to be geographically nearby.)
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