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Old December 8th, 2001
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Default Swarming? Where??

I'm sorry but I can't see any hint of LimeWire using swarmed downloads in beta 1.9. As far as i observe it, each file is still downloaded from a single source only.

- I tried to download several files (each having about 10 mirrors, all 4-star quality and cable connections), granting me a great download speed of 0.5 to 2.0 kb/s on average using ISDN...

- the download list only shows "downloading from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", indicating a single-source-transfer.

- furthermore, the downloads in a download list all have EXACTLY the same filename, therefore i do believe that they were sorted by filename only and not by sha1-hash or at least file ength.

how do i see that Limewire is actually swarming a download ? i didn't notice any difference at all in its download behaviour.

Also if it really does support swarming, a research button should be added in order to search for new sources when all the old ones don't work because they're outdated or something...