how many "connections" should I have?

yellow1053 · #1 (**permalink**) June 14th, 2009

I use Frostwire infrequently, but when I needed it, it was fine. last week, my Java updated itself, and today I tried to use FW and it took a long time to connect, and when it did, all I get is trash and bogus results.
I have five connections listed as ultrapeers. the connection status says "leaf". how can I/or should I be adding specific connections?? does that get better results? My FW is 4.18.0 and my Java is: 1.6.0_14
thanks.

Lord of the Rings · #2 (**permalink**) June 14th, 2009

You can delete your Ultrapeers one by one. Choose the one you've been connected to the longest, select it choose Remove. It may take from a few seconds to a few mins to get a replacement ultrapeer to stabilize your connection. Then see if searches have improved. If not, remove the next longest ultrapeer on the list. Some people might just remove all at once, but that's up to you. Not all of them will be bad I'm sure.

As for adding ultrapeers manually, you can use the gnutella.net file. You can find one to download from this page 3/4 way down the list: If LW 4 Will Not Connect (click on the blue link). This file can be opened with Wordpad or any intelligent wordprocessor.

yellow1053 · #3 (**permalink**) June 14th, 2009

I replaced my gnutella.net file with the one you directed me to, and all is right again!!! Thank you very much!