Well, in theory, it means that you are in the queue being run by this host. I run with 15 slots on offer and four or five people queue waiting in turn to be one of the 15. I run a stable and efficient host so the wait is usually rewarded with a slot, but many hosts are unsociable. For example, they may screw down the bandwidth allocation so that little if any remains for uploading. So, if you are really "lucky" and can actually start downloading a file from such a host, it might take hours. If you're in that queue, you might never get to the end of it before you lose the connection. Frankly, I rarely wait very long. I run a long want list and, if something is taking up one of my active slots inactively, I tend to go for the next file on my list and come back to the original search later on. If you leave anything over 15 minutes between repeat searches, you should find a different set of hits assuming you are not searching for something particularly rare. If you are in search of the rare, you will have to try at "off-peak" times when fewer people may be trying to get access to what you want. However, I have things on my list that have been there for months but, since I have a collectors mentality, half the fun of this game lies in the hunt.

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David