Help with finding local peers
 

Hi all. My ISP uses IP numbers in the 165.145.x.x and 165.165.x.x range. Is there any way I can "train" Limewire to look for hosts/peers in these subnets before looking anywhere else?

This would greatly improve the ability to find files that are shared locally, and therefore are available at a higher speed than those shared on the other side of the planet.

If it can't be done already, I would greatly appreciate this facility in a future version of LW Pro.

You can block or allow IP's and ranges in the filter options . . . so you could disallow all except 165.*.*.*

However, the experiment with locale preferencing in the past proved to be a bad idea: it fragmented the network too much. So, the option for "Locale Preferencing" was dropped.

Why not preference only one of the 5 (or 3) connections? I'm not trying to fragment the network, just make sure that I'm connecting to people closer to home than North America, which is the other side of the globe from me.

If I recall correctly, they tried using only only one or two locals.

find posts by et voilà or arne_bab. They were more involved testing the locale preferencing, and may have more info/suggestions for you.

I do not know what your connection speed is. But I have done speed test from around the world. I have a 750KB/s connection and the slowest speed I get is 350KB/s which is still pretty fast. You may want to do a speed test and see if it will make that big of a difference. Because you will defiantly be limiting yourself on sources. The link below has Internet speed test sites from around the world. Not all of the work but most do.


http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1