I am a new user of Gnutella well actually I used it one year ago, the difference is that it worked really great for me with a oldfashioned client but now it won't .
I am not trying to be a bitch because I really appreciate Gnutella, it just won't work for me now but I am convinced that it's a fault in my configuration. Most of times it says busy or sum and keeps sending resume packets, but after a copple of times it says "couldn't download". I hope somebody knows what causes this problem and has a solution for it, if there is.
I am currently using the LimeWire 1.4 client. (if there's no solution becuz it's just the system GnutellaClients work with, uploadmax /maxupload speed, is there a problem to automaticly keep sending a resume packet after it says couldn't download?)
greetings from holland

i have had the exact same problems, i hope someone can help!!

First you have to make sure you search with keywords (the band andor/ the song) instead of exact filenames (the band - the song 03.mp3). Keywords produce more results. LimeWire has this cool feature called GROUPING when your results are listed and say 10 other hosts have the exact file (filename and size) it'll "group" that result. Meaning when you download from a GROUPING you'll have a better download succession rate b/c of the 10 different host to download from. But the reason it says COULDN'T DOWNLOAD is b/c that particular host has LOGGED OFF (exit LimeWire) or his upload slots are full and/or you or him has sufficent amount of bandwidth to establish a connection and transfer.

[last sentence]....and/or you or him does not has sufficent amount of bandwidth.....

sorry I didnt proof read my post :P