I've been noticing lately that I'm connecting to more Morpheus ultrapeers than anyone else. Also while this is happening I'm also noticing I'm getting fewer search results. As to before to where I was connecting to only LimeWire and Gnucleus ultrapeers while tons of search results. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed a difference in this.

Yup, there seem to be many, many poorly connected Morpheus Ultrapeers. I don't know how they decide how to become an Ultrapeer, but their Algorithm has some flaws. When I force LimeWire to be an Ultrapeer, i've got hardly any leaf nodes (maybe 10 - 20). And almost none of them are Gnucleus or Morpheus.

If this doesn't change, Morpheus could easily make the whole ultrapeer-system useless, regarding the fact, that some 60% of all gnutella users use morpheus.

I think the problem with the number of morphues users is the fact that it USED to be an awesome network, and the users are loyal to that. Unfortunately it is now a second rate program that as Taliban mentioned is flawed. Hopefully one of two things will happen:

the promised 2.0 vesion of morpheus will be debugged to sufficiently merge into the gnutella network

or, the users will figure out that Limewire is much better, as I did

In the meantime, should we REMOVE the Morpheus ultrapeers on the Connections screen and try to get better (random) connected ultrapeers?

I don't think it'll help you very much. - Better wait for the new LimeWire 2.5 if the developers come up with a solution or if Streamcast updates its software.

Maybe its the RIAA and MPAA! :x

I am running Limewire 2.4.4 on a Dell 8200...I've noticed that when I am connected to just Limewire ultrapeers there will be over 1000 hosts yet when connected to MorpheusOS or Gnutella Ultrapeers there are 150 or less hosts..
Just wondering if other than watching the connections screen and removing the aforementioned ultrapeers is there any way to block these connections...
Klondike

I think something is already happening. Morpheus Ultrapeers are still blocking any information on how many hosts you can reach at the moment, - however their connectivity is increasing. I guess it's got something to do with the new Morpheus 1.9.1 update.

Freakin MusicCity is the biggest bunch of dorkahontases I have ever seen in my life.

They have screwed up Gnutella far better than any RIAA attempt could ever have:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/7998

The only features I expect in Morpheus 2.0 is more spyware and third rate advertising - beware of this dying company as it flails about in search of capital.

Yeah, let's block Morpheus!