Ok, I'm not exactly sure where to post this thread in the LimeWire section of the Gnutella forum... so I will do so right here. Mod's and Admin's are free to move the thread wherever they see fit.

Anyhow, some basic information about my experience here. I've been connecting to LimeWire for about 2 years now. I have version 4.10.3 and have not installed the new 4.12.6 of which I did the search for while connected.. but I will do so soon. I have about 200 files shared, even though my entire collection is well over 3 thousand files, mainly .mp3's.

I have about 2,000 ebooks waiting in the Que for download. most are over 1,000K/b and nothing bigger than 60MB (59,950K/b). I'm connecting to my ISP @ 48K/bps. I have it set to download 6 at a time, while some download at 1K or 0K.. others at 2K, and with all 6 going I have about 6 or 7K.. and sometimes I have gotten quick bursts of 10-15K. 4 out of the 6 run, on average, at good enough speed so I sometimes shorten it to 4 at a time.

While searching I get all these odd results that really do nothing more than take up room in the listing. For instance the ones that say something like "Can you afford.." and some that end with (sponsored result) and also some other wierd ones like Windows Media results (I think they're video files) like "cute funny brown dog playing...", etc. etc. etc.. They're the same ones that always come up no matter what search string you use. I really would wish that they would go away.

I have not been able to discern which specific set IP #'s they originate from in order to exclude them from searches.. and it appears that they come from a bunch of different sets of IP #'s.

Here are two of the ones that I was able to find: 38.99.*.* and 64.72.*.* and 216.255.*.*

Anyone know any of the others? I'd like some help weeding out a majority of these useless hosts. Maybe it could become a sticky.

I did change some of the settings though, as mentioned in the forum here and have gotten a bit better experience. I filtered the 192.168.*.* hosts and the 10.*.*.* hosts

Anyhow, I'd like some advice on what else to do here to elmiinate the junk.

Oh, and one last thing, this is abit off this topic. While in the Monitor view, I see people connecting through "CruX 3.2.0.0". What client is this?

Greg