i think its always best to have as many ultrapeers as possible and file sharers but the people that only download or dont leave there limewire up make it kind of unfare slowing down the network for us and not helping it, they should make it so you have to be an ultrapeer if you dont have pro

LW chooses it's ultrapeers. Not much point forcing someone to be an ultrapeer if they have a slow connection... that's not going to speed things up!
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I have a bit of a moral dilemma with this whole sharing/ultrapeer issue.I share my files but when i download something i burn it to cd or dvd so i can watch it/listen to it away from the computer.To save space on the hard drive i delete the more popular ones because it would make very little diffrence if i had a song that another 15 people had.But a few months ago i was downloading a certain tv series which had over 20 episodes and left them all on there to share even tho it nearly filled my hard drive because they where from America and during the daytime here most of the people where either offline or not sharing so i left it like that for a week and had an incredible ammount of hits [around 200] and people where constantly downloading it after a week i decided to burn the files to dvd and watch them on something bigger than a s****y 14inch monitor then i deleted them and cleaned my hard drive.If i download a really obscure song [the young marble giants being a typical example] i leave it on my shared and let other people download it.
Same with my rare/obscure videos i have left them on because they are obscure and not many people will search for them but for a fan of this musician the videos are a goldmine.So it's personal choice really share the hard to find stuff and delete the others.Same with uploading i recomend put rare stuff on and leave the chart stuff where it is.

@AaronWalkhouse: Where did you get the stats from, taht only 12% of users in Gnutella are Freeloaders? Do you have a source for other similarly interesting stats?

I have ultrapeer setting enabled, I have bandspeed enough,LW is running for long periods, why am i not an ultrapeer? Presumably being an ultrapeer helps with search results? I have upload setting at 35 KB is this not enough?
Please explain what's missing ! apart from my total lack of expierience with LW!!
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Dont even know how to post !

Is there a firewall icon in front of the globe in bottom left corner?

If there is then you can not become one until it's fixed

Hi, Thanks for reply, no there is no firewall icon or firewall blocking problems,ultrapeer is not disabled,should this happen automatically ? doesn't seem to, or i cant tell !

Also thanks for tips forum rules, google etc, MOST usefull, still havnt found my answer, will continue looking! onward and upward!!
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Hey, folks! I do both and I haven't encountered the dropped connection problems that some may have encountered. Perhaps I'm just a free spirit or just downright naive, I share whatever I've got, it defeats the purpose of the network not to do so, to me.

Thanks Peach!
Yup, i share all,and ''stay connected'' Quite agree if you cant get,let them come,after all ''the hardest thing to give away is kindness,it keeps coming back'' Still interested in being an Ultrapeer tho'
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