Can anyone explain why when running two searches at the same time,on different pc's connected thru the same router, the search results can be wildly different. Search for the same title can differ by 100's
Perplexed!

Because each computer is connected to different host.

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sorry to be so new to this, but exactly, what does that mean, and is there any way to align searches

It means one computer is connected to host
198.164.1.1
198.233.23.56
164.2256.100.1

The other is connected to different ones. Each host you are connected to is connected to different host etc. The link below might be of some help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUtella

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Thanx for your help, i think i understand a bit better now, one thing still puzzles, one of the pc's consistantly returns far fewer results than the other?

Maybe that will help you to understand:

"Figure 8: Gnutella Servents with Viral Networking
When a user joins the Gnutella network, their Gnutella user program (called a servent because it is both a server and a client) connects to one or more Gnutella PCs. This creates a mesh of connectivity among the Gnutella users.
When a new user PC joins the network, it transmits an introductory “ping” message to its “direct connects,” that is, to the user PCs to which it connects directly. These direct connects pass the message on to the user PCs to which they connect, and so forth. This viral networking continues for several hops, usually five to seven. The user PCs that can be reached in these few hops constitute the Gnutella user’s horizon. In effect, each user sees a different Gnutella network. In fact, they see a somewhat different Gnutella network every time they use it.
Typically, each user can see about 10,000 hosts [Kan, 2001]. This limited horizon prevents traffic from becoming overwhelming as the number of Gnutella users grows. The traffic for each user stays within his or her Gnutella cluster.
All computers reached by a ping message send back a “pong” message giving information about themselves. Pong messages travel back the along the path by which each ping arrived. In other words, each pong is routed along a single path rather than being broadcast as pings are. This reduces traffic.
Pings and pongs allow a new host to estimate its horizon and also to identify the IP addresses of additional hosts to which it may connect [Rohr, 2001]. Connecting directly to multiple hosts improves the speed of viral networking."

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