The latest version of limewire has done a lot to make it desirable to be an ultrapeer. They cranked down on the messages sent, and then compressed the ones that are sent. I think nobody should complain about being made an ultrapeer unless they have a slow processor.

I ala agree that you shouldn't be allowed to force yourself to be an ultrapeer. Underpowered ultrapeers are very bad for gnutella. Limewire is really good about only electing good nodes to be ultrapeers. If you really want to be one, then turn on limewire, give it a lot of bandwidth, and let it set. I believe one of the largest factors in becoming an ultrapeer is uptime. It's really important for ultrapeers to stay around.

Later,

Isamoor

P.S. I sincerely doubt limewire looks at how many files you are sharing for you to become an ultrapeer. That wouldn't make any sense. They want ultrapeers with open bandwidth to support communication. I bet that shared files doesn't even come into the picture.