With 1.9+ there is not a "normal" mode. The whole reason of implementing Ultrapeers technology was to decrease gnutella network traffic for hosts. Now you're either a "leaf" or an "ultrapeer". It will take time before Ultrapeer-hosts will have a large amount of other ultrapeers inter-connected to each other. But I am starting to see Ultrapeers with greater than 2 other ultrapeers inter-connected more often, so that is a good sign. As when 1.9 beta came out, you only saw 1 ultrapeer and that was the one you were connected to. It will just take time....so be patient. You must remember the reason you're not getting a lot of results is b/c not a lot of people are running the versions (greater than) >1.9 as oppose to 1.8 (normal mode) and earlier. You also must realize the ultrapeer technology is no where near mainstream yet. There are still a few nicks and grannys that must be worked out; Vincent said something about implementing it into BearShare too.