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Originally posted by Unregistered
The connection tab tell you what host sites you are connected onto. If your searching is going ok don't touch it. also know that the more searches you perform the more links you get. ie. if you look for the same file 20 times in a row you will get more on the 20th search. and try to search alot of different subjects,programs,music,pictures, even if you don't want them, just to get your web as big as possible......also keep plenty of files in your shared folder as that will also give you extra priviliges with some users...
fordguy |
The first sentence and last sentence are true enough. The bit in the middle isn't.
Searching will not make any difference to your horizon (the effective number of peers you can search). Your horizon varies over time as people leave or join the network or ultrapeers change. Sometimes your horizon will be larger than others.
The only time repeated searches might yield extra results is when you are still getting responses from an earlier search which are added to a new search.
Doing repeated searches to bump up research results is a complete waste of time - and worse, a waste of network bandwidth.
The rate of change of network topology changes - But generally, two searches one after the other will be searching the same machines and will return the same results.
If you want a new set of results - remove the ultrapeers you are connected to and get a new set - or wait a reasonable amount of time (half an hour, say) before re-searching.
[After disconnecting from ultrapeers and connecting to new ultrapeers, LimeWire chucks off any ultrapeers that don't seem to be doing anything - it takes a little while for LimeWire to pick up an adequate set of ultrapeers - During this time searches will improve - this may well be the real reason behind the apparent increase in search results].
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