Marc Brown <retsa2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>that there are WAY more nodes than the number of hits I get with even an
>overly generalized search (like "anime"), I have to suspect that it is
>only searching the nodes I am actually connected to.  

Oh, I know what you have to do.  Do your search, then wait 30
seconds or so and hit "search" again.  Do it a few times.  For
some reason it gets a lot more hits after the first minute or so,
but you have to keep pressing the "search" button to make it
refresh the list.  I've just got 1128 results for "anime" in
katakana (after hitting refresh for a few minutes), and it's
currently the middle of the day in Japan (ie, when fewer people
are on the network).

The other thing is that if you keep on doing searches it will
reconnect you to nodes that are trading whatever kind of files it
is that you're searching for.  Apparently there's a way to make it
do this automatically (ie, you can specify keywords for nodes it
should try to connect to) but I've yet to figure out where the
menu option is for that.

>Well.  Sucks to live in North America, where every single ISP has latched
>onto the needlessly wasteful concept of 32k uploads.  I think we're the
>only ones who have it this bad.  Oh well ;P

Hmm, I've got 80k upload speed on my DSL line..  But I do know
that most of them cap upload speeds at 32k.  Lucky I live in
Ontario Canada where the DSL service is deregulated and there are
about 2 dozen DSL providers to choose from.

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