Having ED2K problems again

[Lanigiro]

Suddenly doesn't seem to want to stay connected to my preferred ED2K server. It's slow to connect, and every time I check it after a few hours I find it's jumped over to PEERATES without my permission.

How do I force Shareaza to stay connected to a particular ED2K server come hell or high water? I believe I've asked this question before but have yet to receive a satisfactory answer.

The odd thing is the glitchiness is intermittent. Weeks go by with it mostly staying connected to my preferred server, and then it starts playing up like it has for the past two days with constantly disconnecting and jumping around without my permission. This occurs across restarts of Shareaza and without my making any explicit changes to its configuration. It's almost as if there's something going on at the other end, but there shouldn't be: the server's job is just to sit there doing its job in an impartial and nondiscriminatory manner. It shouldn't be slower some weeks than others, or become prone to dropping connections for a time. How would such behavior be in any way useful, either to its own operator or to the user base? Another reason it shouldn't be at the other end, of course, is because if it is, it's unclear what I'm supposed to do to fix this, and yet at the same time I am clearly supposed to do something to fix this, in order to avoid getting poorer search results/performance than normal. It would obviously be unjust for me, personally, to be saddled with diminished search performance without there being something that I, personally, should have been doing differently, even if that's just some minor settings tweak somewhere under Shareaza's advanced options.

So far as I can tell, my ISP is (for once) not causing any problems. Everything else (web browsing, etc.) is rock-stable and has been for months.

[queuesclimber]

It's a feature, not a bug

For some reason, you are right.
Staying connected to a good donkey, you will recieve better/more sources.

[Lanigiro]

???

And why is there so little activity here for the past 2 years?

[Atleta]

Several servers are down for me during these two days. But I'm using eMule, so I have KAD to save me.

[Lanigiro]

Shareaza was supposed to have had KAD support by now. Why is raspopov dragging his heels? I don't see any commits on the sourceforge tracking page for 2 years now...

[Atleta]

Maybe the project is in a vegetative state, seeing the average number of users of 7 thousand, maybe it is a matter of time that gnutella 2 disappears, besides, nobody has promised to add KAD, there were always a lot of people wanting, but nobody knowing/wanting do.

[queuesclimber]

Once there was a roadmap
DC++ was added by Ryu
KAD has to be done by MadCat ( Hydranode ).
But he did not finished to end.

[Atleta]

Well, if it was not implemented when the software with this profile was on the rise, I do not believe it will go now, as I am not a programmer, I will not complain, but only regret. And another, the only network that Shareaza works with excellence is G2, in the other native clients, they have always been superior, Limewire at G1, eMule at ed2k and dc++ at DirectConnect.

[queuesclimber]

Don't know. Source is Open

http://xlattice.sourceforge.net/compone ... specs.html