Strange search results
 

I used Phex for a number of searches today (at about 1:30PM) and I recieved about 100 results per search. Pretty limited and slow. I installed the Java Runtime Envir. 6 an hour later just to be sure I was up to date and started Phex again. My searches flew as high as 700 and very quickily. Here I sit now at 8PM and my Phex is at a crawl again. I can barely get 100 search results. I realize that there is alot of traffic at this hour but is there anything I can or should do to optimize my Phex? (settings, hacks etc) Feels like its running at half speed. Furthermore...when Phex was working well my searches returned mostly with actual IPs...now almost all are the 192.168 private IPs (routers I assume). I dont know if this makes any sense but feels like something is configured properly.
Thanks
Dave

Reinstalled everything Phex and kicked my ultrapeer connections from 5 to 15. Getting better results than before but not perfect. Its 10 PM now so maybe its a traffic issue. I would still like to know if anyone has suggestions for the best settings to return the most search results.
dave

As a leaf you should not be connected to more then 5 Ultrapeers.

If you force yourself to be ultrapeer you should have at least 20 ultrapeer and 10 leaf connections. Better is 30 or more ultrapeer and leaf connections.

Quality of search results depend on the popularity of the search term in your area and also if you sit in a cloud of spam... it helps if you block IPs from hosts spamming you.

This might also help, though it has a bigger impact on downloads.
http://www.phex.org/wiki/index.php/P...imization_Tips

Thanks for the link. It was a good post andI will try the suggested settings.

quick follow up questions....what is the option "download/sharing settings>download>max download connections per file"? If set to "1" for example, will that download a selected file from only1 host even if it is available from say 20?

Also...does "ban host ip range" prevent a connection to that ip range or is it just a visual filter that hides search results from the ip range? Where is the banned host file stored? I would like to edit it directly and copy it to my other PC.

I have a short "wish list" Where should I post that?

Thanks
Dave

Yes it will do exactly this. It specifies how many download candidates of a file are used maximum.

It prevents everything related with an IP in this range. Connections, traffic and visuals.
The file is also stored in your phex configuration directory. Its called security.xml. This file also contains statistics about the Phex default hostile ip ranges. If you dont care about the hit counts, you could simple delete them. They will be restored on next startup.


You can post your wishlist in the Feature Request Forum:
https://www.gnutellaforums.com/feature-requests-bug-reports/
Arne will be happy to track them.

definitely :)