Last night I downloaded Acquisition 0.72 and requested download of the same two dozen files that I've been attempting to download using LimeWire 2.8.x for the past month.

With LimeWire, the best I'd been able to achieve was a very few minutes of "Waiting...busy" followed by endless "Requery." Just about nothing breaks the Requery loop except exiting LimeWire and relaunching.

With Acquisition I did a single search, found the 24 files and immediately started downloading five of them. Overnight one file completed (50MB); four got half way before their hosts went offline (a total of 250MB out of 500MB). A sixth file started downloading when I made a second search and is now half way through (25MB out of 50MB).

Will some one explain to me what's going on here -- Acquisition is based on the LimeWire engine!

It's important to note that I experienced some problems with Acquisition: first, something very similar to the Can't Move to Library bug occurred prventing two files from starting download.. Second, the first file downloaded proved to be corrupted. (I'm assuming for now that this is the host's fault, not Acquition's.) And, most serious, no uploads! That means if we all were to migrate to Acquisition, there'd be no files to share!

[On and average night while I leave LimeWire "Requerying" away on the download side, about a dozen hosts attempt to upload files from me. Many (not on LimeWire 2.8.x) succeed. The fact that I didn't see a single upload attempt on Acquisition indicates a major fault in that application.]

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Janet