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Connection Setup Page
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Overview
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The Connection Setup page lets you tell the program whether or not you will be
using the program over the Internet or Local Area Network, and what method you
use to connect. You may also reset your entire configuration to the recommended
values based on your connection type.
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Appearance
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Connection Type |
Select the type of connection that you have. It is very important to
be accurate with your connection type, as this will be reported to
other users when they are searching for your files.
In addition, the BearShare Setup Wizard uses this setting to determine
what the proper default values are for most of the networking related
settings.
Do not misrepresent your connection type!
Selecting an incorrect value here will serious affect your ability
to search for files and share files. Modem users should be particularly
careful, as they cannot support more than 1 or 2 host connections
at once, and will experience extremely poor search performance.
This poor performance is not a problem with BearShare or with the
Gnutella network. It is due to the relative youth of the software
available which works with Gnutella. The current version and future
versions of BearShare will help to solve these problems.
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Firewall |
It is very important that you determine whether or not your computer can
accept incoming connections. If you are a dial-up modem user, cable modem
user, or DSL user, you can probably accept incoming connections. If you
are using BearShare at an office or business environment, please check
with your network administrator to determine the proper values for this
setting, and for the settings in the Network Setup Page.
If you advertise that you can accept incoming connections, but your computer
is located behind a firewall or proxy, you will be returning search results
to users that cannot be downloaded without requesting a push.
Due to the current poor client implementations of the Gnutella protocol,
and due to the bandwidth barriers encountered when low speed users
add more hosts than they can handle, push requests have a low success
rate.
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Recommended Settings |
By checking this box and pressing OK, BearShare will adjust your host,
upload, download, search, sharing, and network settings to reflect
the recommended values based on your connection type.
This happens automatically when you complete the BearShare Setup Wizard,
but if you have changed your settings and you are experiencng poor
performance, you should check this box and press OK from the Setup dialog.
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