Thanks for the tests, Lee. For some reason after crashing and several re-boots, and a re-install of the beta, Limewire appears to be running stably during this current session. It didn't show the total of 54-130 files and the names of the ones you uploaded. I believe that was while I had this current session in progress. I wonder if that was the session that crashed or even if the large number of uploads caused the crash. I can send logs if I know what logs to send that would be helpful to the developers. Unless it shows me what files people have uploaded, I do not know there have been uploads. Lee, ... maybe, if you'd be game on another day, perhaps we could try it during a "current" session so I can see that they do show up. Maybe that is what is confusing me. If uploads are occurring but they aren't being logged ... or perhaps it happened during that session that crashed, although you said you received the files in good shape.

I should point out Lee did these tests while I was running the new beta, not the 2.7 version I was running when I first posted in this thread. Lee; you are correct; I'm not squeezing any bandwidth; letting people have as much as they need as I don't need any right now. If I artificially "up" my cable connection to a T1, am I providing users with more bandwidth? I know that the slide goes up to "unlimited;" is that really the case, or will it cut off "cable" at a certain bandwidth by default?

Regarding search star results of 3 and 4 stars, is this independent of the connection type one has (T3 versus cable modem) and more dependent on the upload success rate of a given IP? Is it based on how my connection is performing at any given moment (queued uploads, busy slots, etc.)? I'm basing this conclusion on Lee's test results.

During this current session, it is now showing how many files I am sharing in green next to the green dot, whereas during previous sessions today it behaved inconsistently. I attempted to correct this by (a) re-installing the beta at one point this morning; I do not know if that affected it; (b) I also went in to my Sharing area and hit "apply" again after re-selecting all of my shared files. After that, I noticed the number next to the green dot re-appear. I had the window already wide, so it wasn't the window; it simply wasn't appearing. But what was appearing, across the top, was a file list of 11,000 files or larger, and growing as Limewire was connected longer, (I only left that session running a few minutes) which appeared to be the number shared across the Gnutella network I was on, not from my Mac, which shares 608 files.

Another inconsistency is that sometimes when Limewire opens, it won't stay at 6 connections but rapidly spawns a large number of Leaf node connections even though I have Ultrapeer in place. I do not know much about this, but my solution was to select all of them except the Ultrapeers and to kill them off. *shrug* This seemed to take me back to a normal 5 or 6 connections rather than having 30 incoming connections and one or two outgoing. This seems to vary randomly with each session.

My comments are that Limewire seems to behave differently/inconsistently from one session to the next; I can point out what occurs, but I do not know what causes it. I would be happy to send logs of anything that might be helpful to someone for beta testing purposes. Sometimes I appear to be getting hits and uploads during one session; while during another session there appears to be little or no activity. I cannot account for this nor the other indiscrepancies above.

I might suggest an automatic logging/crash report that emails it off to the developers similar to what Chimera has.

Thanks again, Lee, for helping me troubleshoot. If I run into problems again, I'll give you (or this forum) a shout. Keep up the great work, guys.