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Originally posted by boo_hoooo
Ok. I have been using Lime wire free for a very very long time off and one (go through spurts...LOL) I just downloaded the newest version of it and have a weirdness issue I guess. I am on DSL and think I have the options set up right, but I am spending a LOT of time with my files saying they are waiting in line, awaiting sources, waiting for busy hosts and just not going anywhere. Then one finally "connects" right and it will sit there and say it's downloading and after 10 minutes it's downloaded 0% and the speed =0 and a few minutes later is back to awaiting resources, needing resources or waiting for busy host. Now the same file could do this three or four times in an hour. Did I really just manage to pick the wrong files to want to download? If I have too many (over 4 or 5) at one time does it lock up limewire and confuse it?? I always thought before if I had 20 or 30 files, it was just going in order of what it could find downloading and moving on to the next set.. Am I miss remembering??
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This problem doesn't sound like a limewire problem as much as it is a problem with the sources you are trying to download from. There are three possible causes for your problem. Especially, if you are trying to download popular content . i.e. (usually infringing)
#1 There are so many people trying to download from so few hosts. (supply/demand problem.)
#2 Since the early days of P2P there have been companies that place hosts on the network which return results for popular content but are configured in a way so that you can't actually download the files.
#4 Dynamic nature of the network. Don't forget that hosts join and leave the network constantly. Therefore, it is quite possible to perform a search, get results and by the time you go to download the files the hosts that returned the results has left the network i.e. more sources needed.
My suggestion is to try downloading some other files preferrably smaller ones. If they transfer without issue then you can look to the above suggestions as possible causes.
hope this helps.