I still think there is a miscommunication taking place:
If I understood one of the early posters (on this thread), their experience was that their copy of Limewire 1.9beta would become an UltraPeer and THEN drop all other connections (e.g. modem users) when it discovered another UltraPeer.

This was my 1st point yesterday.

Since you didn't address this, can we assume that this is not what is supposed to happen, and that I either misunderstood that previous post, or that they were reporting a bug?
- Tony