The problem I have, is that the basic connection and download code was not really changed. I could imagine that somehow the timeouts are a little more strict in the latest version but that would not explain your problems, unless of course you became an ultrapeer with 2.9.8 and never became an ultrapeer with 2.8.6 since download attempts tend to timeout more often when you are an ultrapeer.

If LimeWire goes into "Connecting..." state the Push statistics is not important anymore. I was afraid it could even be a strange problem causing LimeWire not to request files properly.

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