on some rare occasion, when running as ultrapeer, i get only connections to other ultrapeers and no single leaf.

has that happened to anyone? any ideas why?

thanks!

Hmm...that's how I ALWAYS connect when i'm UP. I thought it was normal...

Either you don't accept incoming connections or you don't have enough bandwidth to support any leafs.

Right now, having been a UP for about 18 hours, I have 31 outgoing UP connecitons and 1 incoming UP connection. I don't have enough bandwith for something? Could you exaplin a bit further please?

trap_jaw, thanks for the info,

if i get this right, if bandwidth is low, limewire first drops the leaves then the ultrapeers? what network sense does that make?

Blackbird,

how do you discern incoming and outgoing ultrapeers? aren't all of them both incoming and outgoing?

Uh, I look at the little statistic in the connections bar that says "outgoing" or "incoming" in the slot.

Try putting


MAX_LEAVES=(number of leaf nodes)


in you limewire.props file.

Modifying your LimeWire props file doesn't help you at all since you are accepting at least 30 leafs by default. It's just a guess of course but an ultrapeer should have at least 50% incoming connections. Since a lot of ultrapeers don't seem to accept incoming connections I usually see 80-90% incoming connections. Since you had only one incoming connection out of thirty connections it seems that you don't accept incoming connections from everybody (maybe only from peers with the same ISP???). Leafs that try to connect to you probably can't since you (your firewall / your ISP) are somehow blocking them. With the new high outdegree network it does not really hurt if some ultrapeers don't accept leaf connections, they can still carry a part of the network load by forwarding queries between ultrapeers.

hmm... darn.

i only get outgoings. i have the ports forwarded and limewire correctly identifies the IP but i guess that's not enough. still no leaves. used to have plenty of them in the old days...

{edit} actually, i get incomings, this time almost all of them. must have had something else screwed up. i also have leaves, although only about 10%

Don't know if this helps trap, but when i get leaves, they're always from a non-LW user.