The change in stats is nothing to do with LimeWire. Morpheus ultrapeers do not support reporting of stats. Since most ultrapeers are now morpheus clients, the stats have dropped way off.

This isn't entirely a bad thing. The reporting of stats took up bandwidth. By not reporting stats there is more bandwidth to be used for downloads.

However, the only way to tell how well connected you are is to do a search and see how many results you get.

At the same time, the network does appear to have deteriorated recently - although this varies a lot. Much of the problem may be related to morpheus - since morpheus now makes up the vast majority of clients on the network. This doesn't mean that all morpheus ultrapeers are bad - there are plenty of excellent ones. But there are also a proportion of very bad ones.

Mark