Hi everybody!

I've been lately trying the new Limewire 1.9 to 2.01 (Linux) and the new Superpeer protocol. It seems to me that this new protocol has very good advantages for modem users, but also many disadvantages for DSL users.

DLS is usually very asymmetric, thus you may have 512 Kbps (or 256 Kbps) for downloads, but just 128 Kbps for uploads. This means that you can't run LW in Ultrapeer because it will use all your outgoing bandwidth (and then you'll loose ingoing bandwidth too). But you could still be able to accept Gnutella clients in the v0.4 way, however as soon as you are connected to an ultrapeer, no more connections are accepted.

This Ultrapeer protocol seems to split the network in two:

-Ultrapeers connected between themselves
-Leaves connected to ultrapeers

There is no room for the standard client-server Gnutella. I don't think this is a good idea if both can't be integrated.

I would like to know other's opinion about this.

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| Israel Galan