Peer, Ultrapeer, leaves... ?? Someone explain !

#1 (**permalink**) December 1st, 2004

I'm very new to the Gnutella network of sharing, so I'm trying to understand how the system works. Can someone break it down for me? Is it a web-like structure, or a pyramid? I'm trying understand why some days I'm a "Peer" and DL at about 20kb/s, others (like tonight) an "Ultrapeer", and my download speeds are surpassing 100kb/s.

TIA,

stief · #2 (**permalink**) December 2nd, 2004

arne put a handy gnutella guide together http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=22696

also http://www.limewire.com/english/content/glossary.shtml might help, as well as the links in the LW help menu.

Cheers

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