on the lime wire website it says"Downloading a search result with more than one occurrence will speed up the download. By grouping all the clients sharing the same file, LimeWire pulls the file from multiple hosts, pooling the upload bandwidth thereby increasing the download rate. This process is called Swarm Downloading. Choosing a row with a higher group count will increase the likelihood of successful and fast download."
What does this mean and how do i do it?


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It means that files with more than one host will be downloaded faster. Normally, you should choose files with some 10-20 hosts and with 4 stars to make sure that you have a high possibility for a successful download.
If you want to know more on how to increase your download success, please read here:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=17321

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how do you know how many hosts are there...and what does the " hash" sign mean?

Next to the stars, which tell you the quality of the host in terms of the possibility to get the file downloaded (4 stars indicates I high possibility that you'll get the file from this/ these hosts), you will see a number. This number tells you how many hosts have the same file (i.e. name, size & type).
But be careful, some files may show up with hundreds of hosts; stay away from them, those are faked files which you'll never be able to download.

Hash(tree) actually talks about the "signature" of a file. Each file has its unique signature (i.e. hashtree) with which it can be identified. Limewire will collect the information of the hashtree to use it when you download, telling LW which part of the file you have already and which are still missing.

If you want to know more, read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_tree

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is this a hash?"#" cuz thats the thing i wan't to know about it's like this:
quality,#,?,name,blah blah blah
****26,26 hosts????
****57,57 hosts????
****23,23 hosts????

No, that's the number of hosts offering the same file; as I've already explained in my post above.


After your edit, I would say it is the IP address of the host (IP is the intenet ID of a computer)

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