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Originally posted by JasonJas
Wondering what "Leaf node" means?
Im using Limewire Pro, and it says leaf at the bottom of the connections tab.
I hardly get any results at all when I click on "enable", for incoming searches.
How do I get OUT of leaf node? |
Hello!
Most People on Gnutella these days are Leaf Nodes while some users are Ultrapeers.The current outlook of Gnutella is that Leaf Nodes are connected to a certain number of UltraPeers usually 3 whitch in turn are connected to more Ultrapeers and Leafnodes.Only people with T1 connections and faster are allowed to act as Ultrapeers(Not Classical Mac OS users).To enable UltraPeer capabilitys you do the following:
Go to Tools>Options>Speed
and uncheck the Disable UltraPeer capabilitys option and also select T1(1.5Mbit/s or faster) or T3(43Mbit/s or faster) as your connection speed then click Apply then OK and then shut down LW and relaunch it for the change to take effect.You will now be a UltraPeer instead of a Leafnode.
LeafNode is a good thing because it takes the traffic load of "weaker users" and lets the big fat UltraPeers to take the big hit.