On the subject of better searches, I am losing more and more quality contributors as time goes by. I am still using LPE. I share music and music only. Usually rock, pop, soul and country. I live on the west coast USA and search late night hours. In the last 8-12 months or so the majority of my connections have been from Japan, and most of them are just contributing games and videos only, so they are bad matches for me. I drop them continously but they usually just keep reappearing back immediately. My port keeps resetting at 6346 although I have changed it with no luck on any other english speaking country popping up instead of Japan. Any suggestions? Should I stay with Limewire? Are there any other tricks I can do? I have had great luck for years with LW, but not too good in quite a while.

You posted this question 4 days ago & Lord of the Rings replied here (click on blue link): http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...o-basic-4.html

Did you add the port number & IP addresses that he suggested (within the 'Hostiles List' link) to your banned list?

Sorry if LOTR's reply didn't show up for you - it's possible that there was a forum glitch & the reply may not have shown up immediately.

Yes, thanks Birdy. There is a forum glitch here, it still says "4 days ago" many days later.
I'm still working on this. I will update when I get some results. thank you

I want to thank Lord of the Rings for all of that extensive research he did back in March. Great work there!
I have closed off port 6346 but Japan and the Cabos still dominate my connections.
I am continuing to block off more and more hostile IPs also.