The “Connected Hosts” box provides information such as the IP addresses and ratios of incoming to outgoing messages of Gnutella hosts you are connected.

• Host – The IP Address of the host you are connected to
• Status – Incoming indicates that the host established the connection with you. Outgoing indicates that you established the connection with that host.
• Messages - Shows that number of messages received and sent to and from that particular host
• Bandwidth – Shows the speed of that host’s connection
• Dropped - The input percentage is the number of messages dropped because they were malformed or misrouted. The input percentage of leaf nodes is normally high. The output percentage is the number of messages a node was unable to send because of slow connections.
• Hosts - The number of other addresses that we know of via that connection. Leaf nodes are currently incapable of detecting the number of hosts.
• Protocol –Indicates whether the host is a Leaf or an Ultrapeer. If you are a leaf node, you will only see 3 Ultrapeer connections by default. However, you can increase the connections and increase search result success. You can change how many connections you can have up at once by increasing the number (no more than 6) in the input field on the bottom. If you are an Ultrapeer, you will see all your ultrapeer connections and your leaf connections (up to 75).
• Vendor/Version – Indicates the type of Gnutella client that host is using.
• Time – Indicates length of time host has been logged on to the network.

Use the "Remove" and "Add" buttons to add or remove specific connections to the network. For example, if you know the IP address of a computer or host you are trying to reach, type the address into the input field and press “add”.