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Originally posted by sipher
I don't understand all this stuff. I am not clear the difference between a peer and an ultra peer. My connection seems to hover around 200 hosts most of the time, sometimes it's as low as 40. My peak is 1500 but that only happened once. How do you get connected to so many?
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As a normal peer, your connection count only shows the Ultrapeers in your horizon. If you are an Ultrapeer your connection count shows all peers in your horizon. That happens because pingreplies (used to count hosts) of simple peers aren't forwarded to you if you are just a simple peer. - Search result from simple peers, will be forwarded to you. The statistics window just isn't accurate and leads to misinterpretations.
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If you are not an ultra peer are you limited to 3 connections in your connections tab? I set the number of connections to maintain to 6, 10 whatever but it's always just three.
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10 exceeds the hardcoded limit (of 6) for your connections speed (CABLE/DSL I assume). So it is normalized. You probably don't receive more results if you did set it to 10 anyway.
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Today suddenly I see 6 I don't know why. It's not that I became an ultra peer I know because I tried turning on the monitor and it still says i'm a leaf node shielded by an ultra peer?
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That might happen, if there are few Ultrapeers to connect to. In that case LimeWire will connect to any host. And the limit of 3 is not necessarily imposed.
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Also what's the difference between protocol .6 and ultrapeer? Which is newer? I do see taht with the .6 I can see the number of hosts in the hosts column but with ultrapeer it's always "?"
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If the connection says 0.6, it doesn't shield you from queries, pings, etc. Ultrapeers will monitor which queries you don't answer and won't send a query you didn't answer to you two times. In Addition they don't forward ping replies (aka pongs) of normal hosts to you. That reduces the traffic, you need for a connection. (Not to mention, that you don't have to forward queries from Ultrapeers.)