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murasame · #4 (**permalink**) June 6th, 2004

Yes, you are indeed correct. LW does need to be babysitted, because developpers took out the auto-research functions older versions had. The reason for this is that the network became inudated by continuous search requests and, as a result, everything got slowed down. By eliminating this function, the network only has to deal with manual searches. This is also why I told you to do periodical seraches of the same file and not continuous. If everyone sat in front of his computer, constantly punching re-searches, then this would result in a slower network.
Besides, doing searches of the same file at greater intervals gives you more chances of either finding hosts that are no longer busy or finding other hosts with the same file, but with a better connection.