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Originally posted by David91
[B]You could consider filtering out the LAN servants which would probably improve the percentage of positive connections achieved from the hosts returned. Now, invert this. Most people do not filter the servants and will see only a limited number of "real" hits for each search. Thus, the chances of your site's collection appearing are actually reduced.
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Filtering LAN clients is not a good idea because it can reduce the number of results you receive substantially. The ultrapeers you are connected to will return a certain number of results. If you are filtering LAN clients, your servent will just drop some of those results. You will not get more non-firewalled results instead. -
If you are on a LAN yourself (and if LimeWire is aware of that), LimeWire will automatically set the firewalled-bit in your query and other LAN servents will not return any queryhits (there is no option to force LW to do that, though).
The next versions of LimeWire should have a higher push timeout & push proxies, fixing some of the problems with connections to clients from within a LAN.
From my experience clients from a LAN are generally faster and less often busy than servents with a direct connection to the internet, making up for a lot of the trouble when trying to connect to them.