can anyone tell me how to qualify as an ultrapeer? i've seen it mentioned quite a lot and it sounds good.

also i have a small to medium hard disk( 120 gb ) and a fair sized c.d collection which i'd like 2 share with my fellow limers. is it just a case of burning the lot onto my hard disk? and if so will that slow my upload speed?

also: has anyone come up with a collective name for our kind,(limewire users ?). i keep saying limers, but can anyone think of a better one?

will have a poll if the responce is good

Mike, With Limewire you cannot force yourself to become an ultrapeer (some applications do have this option). Limewire decides automatically which hosts are to be ultrapeers, and since v4.9.29 or so it has fairly radically changed the criteria. Usually an Ultrapeer is chosen due to having a fast and stable connection. It is not a huge advantage to be an ultrapeer, but without ultrapeers the network would not exist as we know it, so you are not missing anything

Having a lot of CDs imported into your hard drive, and being shared, should not in itself slow your upload speed down. but it really all depends how much space you have, ... your computer type and processor speed etc. Mainly, If you are sharing a lot of files, you should not be TOO generous, by which I mean allow 5 or so uploads at a time, and see how things go. Increase the number gradually if you feel you can, but do not allow 50 uploads at a time where all 50 will be struggling to get a decent upload speed, and your system will probably slow to a crawl.

I don't quite know how you would need to put the cds on your computer... depends on your software. Personally I use iTunes which does the job just fine.

Personally I know of no known collective term for a "download" or "cache" of Limewire users ... or Limewierdos

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You will need ripping software then put the files created in your share folder.

Your upload speed (files leaving your computer) is roughly the amount of your upload bandwidth dedicated to limewire (and not in use by other programs) divided by the number of upload slots you allow (both configurable)

I don't think there is an offical name, limers sounds fine

All windows users should have Windows media player. It is not the best program out there, but you can rip music on your hard drive with it.

There's no reason you'd want to qualify as an ultrapeer, if there's reason to become an ultrapeer you will automatically become one. The only way you will notice, at least, the only way I noticed was that I began uploading. I think I'm an ultrapeer because I'm online regularly, have a non-switching(don't know how to say better, Im dutch) ip address and have some files on my computer and a reasonable upload speed.

About ripping cds to your hard drive: I'm guessing you use windows. For windows there's an advanced ripper: Audiograbber, CD-ripper for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

You should rip the music and what you must do after the ripping is encode the music into mp3 or another audiocompression format. Only I suggest to all other limers to, including you and myself. Please don't encode your audio in mp3 anymore. Why?
Mp3 format is very lossy and we have a better and free alternative:
FLAC. FLAC is a lossless format, so I'd recommend it to anyone, because I'd like to see some quality music on the gnutella network.

Hope you will follo my tips,

Alain