> I wonder when Limewire will be compression by default, because it saves approximatly 50% of bandwith

we're waiting till a large portion of clients support it, so we can better test the CPU impact and determine if there needs to be limits on the amount of concurrently compressed connections. if we see it's not a problem, then it's just a matter of changing one word in one file from 'false' to 'true'. if it is, we'll put some sort of limit on the number of compressed connections a client will try to maintain at one time.

on my measly 500mhz p3, the 'row striping' is more of a CPU hog than compression is, so i doubt it'll be too much of a problem.