Add/Remove Connections

[BaDbOy3998]

Hi. When you use the remove button via the connection tab within LimeWire, does it permanently block that host thereafter? Now when I use LimeWire, it will only connect to 3 Outgoing hosts. I have Ultrapeer enabled and have not had this problem until recently. Any help appreciated

[osu_uma]

AFAIK, it doesn't permamently block the host. In order to do that, you would have to enter the host's IP in the filter hosts list in the limewire options under filter/hosts.

When you're connected to only 3 hosts, that means you are running as a leaf, which is perfectly ok. You can only allow ultrapeer in the options, this doesn't mean limewire has to run as an ultrapeer. Whether limewire runs as an ultrapeer or a leaf depends on factors like the quality of your internet connections and others.

IMO, there doesn't seem to be much of an advantage to running as an ultrapeer. It doesn't provide substantially better search results and as ultrapeer, limewire spends bandwidth and cpu % for routing limewire messages.

[BaDbOy3998]

Ultrapeer IS on though (I do not have Disable Ultrapeer checked). Anyways, with or without it check in options, I'm set as a leaf node (b/c in monitor it says I'm a leaf node when I enable searches). In my other post, I asked how to reset all of LimeWire's options, like deleting a registry key (folder?).

[BaDbOy3998]

Would resetting all the settings work? How would I do so?

[osu_uma]

i'm not sure i understand what you're looking for...

afaik, the only influence you have on becoming an ultrapeer or not is whether you check the 'allow...' checkbox. and that only ALLOWS you to become an ultrapeer, it doesn't FORCE ultrapeer.

ultrapeer or not depends on factors that you can't influence with any options or settings, like your available bandwidth.

the only influence you have is make sure that your router passes port 6346 on to your machine.

but, again, being an ultrapeer is really not that cool, it doesn't give you substantially more search results and you can upload less because bandwidth is used for traffic communicating with 30ish instead of 3 hosts.

[BaDbOy3998]

Ah I see. But, I do wish to remove all my saved settings... How would I do that? It appears that uninstalling didn't help...

[Blackbird]

If you're OS 9, go to your preferences folder and delete the LW prefs.

I'm kinda new to X, so I'm not sure where all the preferences are, or if it's alright to delete them.

[BaDbOy3998]

I'm on Windows XP

[Blackbird]

There must be some sort of "set to default" option. See if you can find that. Otherwise, I really don't know, I don't work with Win XP often enough to really know it that well. Sorry. Someone else here will know though I bet.

[BaDbOy3998]

Thanks for your help