Are search results really this bad?

**DubbaEwwTeeEff** · March 16th, 2005, 03:49 AM

I'm connected to 2 Gnutella2 hubs. I've tried about twenty search terms, most of them just designed to be popular, all with no (or extremly few) results. "Dave Matthews Band" has no hits over 7 hubs. "Madonna" has two hits over 5 hubs. Eminem has "some results filtered out," and I can't find the filter settings anywhere.

Should I be getting more results than this?
Am I not waiting long enough for results? How long should I wait?
Is there a way to manually connect to more hubs, and would this have any effect anyways?

**Mels_Smileys45** · March 16th, 2005, 04:14 AM

If you just installed it you may need to wait till Ares hashes out all your files or you get poor perfromance from what I remember. You should be getting better results.

Are you having trouble with any other P2P programs?

**ourthing2** · March 16th, 2005, 04:33 AM

@mel: it may take a long time for ares to hash his files when he's running shareaza :p

**napho** · March 16th, 2005, 05:25 AM

There's still good old Gnutella. Not many files above 128 though. If you're using Shareaza, why not try it.

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**xenof** · March 16th, 2005, 06:11 AM

Originally Posted by DubbaEwwTeeEff

I'm connected to 2 Gnutella2 hubs. I've tried about twenty search terms, most of them just designed to be popular, all with no (or extremly few) results. "Dave Matthews Band" has no hits over 7 hubs. "Madonna" has two hits over 5 hubs. Eminem has "some results filtered out," and I can't find the filter settings anywhere.

Should I be getting more results than this?
Am I not waiting long enough for results? How long should I wait?
Is there a way to manually connect to more hubs, and would this have any effect anyways?

i run a search '' Dave Matthews Band'' look here

are you sure that shareaza configuration is ok? please run this test

**napho** · March 16th, 2005, 06:27 AM

@xenof

You seem like a big Shareaza fan, but what I've noticed is that the number of results from G2 compared to the number from Gnutella using Bearshare isn't a great endorsement for the G2 network. I've also found that Shareaza returns 10x as many results from Gnutella with G2 turned off.

**xenof** · March 16th, 2005, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by napho

@xenof

You seem like a big Shareaza fan, but what I've noticed is that the number of results from G2 compared to the number from Gnutella using Bearshare isn't a great endorsement for the G2 network. I've also found that Shareaza returns 10x as many results from Gnutella with G2 turned off.

i like shareaza cause it works well for me.

:heart

**DubbaEwwTeeEff** · March 16th, 2005, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by xenof

are you sure that shareaza configuration is ok? please run this test

Wow, I wish I'd known about that earlier. That test makes it a LOT easier to fix.

Turns out my problem was with the port forwarding; my local IP used to be .0.2, but somehow it got switched to .0.3, so all my port forwarding settings were off.

Stupid mistake, I know.

**infringer** · March 16th, 2005, 12:03 PM

Wow, I wish I'd known about that earlier. That test makes it a LOT easier to fix.

Turns out my problem was with the port forwarding; my local IP used to be .0.2, but somehow it got switched to .0.3, so all my port forwarding settings were off.

Stupid mistake, I know.

I hate it when that happens I think we've all done that one at one time or another lmao!

Sometimes your keyboard dont write what you want it too :P

-infringer-

**xenof** · March 16th, 2005, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by DubbaEwwTeeEff

Wow, I wish I'd known about that earlier. That test makes it a LOT easier to fix.

Turns out my problem was with the port forwarding; my local IP used to be .0.2, but somehow it got switched to .0.3, so all my port forwarding settings were off.

Stupid mistake, I know.

This link is not a secret, everybody can find it in shareaza official forum
:bling[