I haven't used LimeWire in a while, but I seem to remember an option that dropped results with a low rating. Do you know if this was in effect while you were using LimeWire?
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Carl Erhorn wrote: >In the recent posts, there were a couple of items that mentioned that >people were finding that LimeWire was returning more results than >gtk-gnutella. > >I've had the exact opposite observation, using the gtk-g 0.92.1 and the >current CVS snapshot, against both the stable and beta versions of >Limewire. This is on Solaris 8, with gtkg compiled from source, and the >limewire versions were Java. > >Searching for anime files, I would never get more than about 35 results >from LimeWire. gtkg returned over 1000 results, although it had to run >the search for some hours to reach that figure. But within 5 minutes, it >had found about 300 files, compared to LimeWire's 35 in the same >general timeframe. > >I've heard that there are issues with firewalls that can cause symptoms >like this, but only if they are mis-configured. Simple port-forwarding or >port-triggering is all that's needed for gtkg to work correctly (or for >LimeWire either for that matter). > >So I am surprised to hear that others are not having the same >experience that I am, with gtkg the absolute winner in terms of search >hits. > >If anyone would like to take this problem off-line, I would be glad to >compare notes, and do some testing to see why we should be having >such different results. > >Regards, >--Carl > > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search Regards, Drew Vogel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
