When u choose to dwnld a file on the Gnutella netwrk, you're not dwnlding from a website! You're dwnlding from individual people who may have anything from dial-up modems or much better. They might be over the other side of town or over the other side of the world. Yet it might sometimes be just as hard to connect to somebody b/c of the netwk traffic, your isp traffic, their isp traffic, connection probs, their upld bandwidth might be busy with other people, etc. There's never any guarantee you can connect to the same person one day to the next. Which is why you need to seek out to find more sources. The more sources u have the more chance you'll have of connecting to somebody who has that file. Sometimes LW requires some baby-sitting & you need to continually monitor the dwnlds & do searches to overcome the issue. Yet other times yo can just turn LW on & the files connect by themselves eventually. Using an effective search & dwnld technique helps. See this link for some hints (click on link.) You can also press resume, however unless you have sources at hand's length this is not always an effective technique.

Uh this was apparently my 1000th post. Where's my free Mars bar reward? Maybe I should delete some so next time I don't forget to get excited about nothing. 1k what a ...