The hits are gone man, they're gone and they ain't comin' back. I don't know why you say this is more efficent if it doesn't do what I want it to do.
For cripes sake, I used to get file sizes in Terabytes, and now they're in megabytes...
I can stay on my t3 for hours, and do a search on something like britney spears, and only find a handful. With britney I could care less, but man....the hits are gone, and the files have said goodbye!

Hi, I'm all for new and improved, but this seems to be 200 steps backwards, unless I'm missing something. Please advise.

I have tested vers. 1.7c for MacOs, up against vers. 2.02 for MacOs and MacOs-X. I tested them one at a time. The MacOs versions ran in classic mode. I also tried to boot directly into OS 9 and got the same results.

I am pretty sure that there is a problem since I get many more hits for my searches in vers. 1.7c compared to vers. 2.02 for Mac OS and Mac OS-X. Isn't that what it's all about: getting results for searches??!!!

That the statistics also show many terabytes and around a thousand hosts in vers. 1.7c compared to only a couple of hosts and maybe a 100 mb of data seems to relate to the very few hits made in the new versions.

What ever the technology: I dream of millions of hits for my searches!!!

Best regards, David

while i didnt get as many results for searches. The results i did get were much faster and more reliable than previous versions of limewire. Maybe the ultrapeer protocol weeds out bad connections. Just a thought,

I was at first upset that it said I was only connected to 3 hosts, but after trying to search, i realized that they are 3 peered hosts. Not only can
I search, but I get more hits than with any other previous version of Lime wire. I get thousands of hits. Downloading is more efficient and even seems a little bit faster. Give it a try.

With such a positive response I had to go try it again. Unfortunately...

LimeWire 2.0: 96 files, 406Mb
LimeWire 1.8: 182419 files, 4841755Mb

I tried the same searches in each app, at the same time. I got usable results from most searches in 1.8, but only one search showed *any* results in 2.0. (Bizarrely enough, it counted slightly more found items in that set than were apparently available in total according to the Stats window.)

I know things are ever changing, so comparing search results can be misleading. But this was such a black-and-white difference...

Perhaps you were running in Mac OS 9? I have no idea where the problem lies, but maybe it is an OS-level problem rather than an app-level one? (Yes, I am clutching at straws. :-)

Keith
MacUser magazine technical editor
http://www.macuser.co.uk/

In desparation I even tried to download a B.Spears track knowing that you guys hard drives are full of them. I got nothing. U.Peer is a sweet Idea but presently it just chews and renders this software, which does amazing stuff normally, redundant.

G4 400
500 mb ram
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