Originally posted by stefanero
[...] with lowID you can only connect to the one on YOUR server [...]
stefanero, this is just plain wrong.
When you are LowID, you can connect to any HighID client, regardless of what server they are connected to. And, you
can't connect to
any LowID client, even if they are on the same server as you.
KyroMaster, first you need to understand the difference between searches and finding sources. When you do a search, the server (or servers, for a global search) tells you the count of sources, but do not provide the actual sources to you. When you start a download, you get your initial set of sources only from your connected server. As you connect to those sources, you may learn about other sources from them via source exchange. Also, aMule will gradually poll the other servers in your server list (via UDP) for sources for the files you are trying to download.
The type of search you did to find the file has no effect on how you receive sources, or on which set of sources you receive.
After you learn about a source, you will try to connect to it. This may fail for a number of reasons. If you are LowID and a particular source is LowID, then you will never be able to connect to it. However, for precisely this reason, neither your server, other servers, or other clients should tell you about LowID sources. So, that isn't the explanation for a high initial source count which gets reduced as you attempt the connections. More likely is just general network failure, ipfilter, ISP blocking, etc.