Ok.. Are there others that feel the same? Do you feel that the upgrade to pro cut down on the "awaiting" and "waiting" I have 24 things I have been "awaiting" downloads or been "waiting" for downloads on for almost a month now. On average I get 2 downloads in a 24 hour period and it doesn't matter if their dsl, cable, t1 or modem, how many stars there are and all where clicked on within minutes of the search coming up.. At this rate I will still be "awaiting" downloads at Christmas and as I add more I don't want to know when they'll be done. I don't ever remember having this much of a problem getting things to download last year..

Please look at the following thread

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ight=busy+host

Hope this helps.

A few things, Your download are limited by the person your downloading from. Therefore, if the remote host is busy, misconfigured or simply unstable. These things will impact your downloads.

Keep in mind, that if you are attempting to download popular content i.e music and movies there are also companies the broadcast results but make it impossible to download those files.
Therefore, you can spend a month trying to get a file that you think is one thing and it turns out to be something entirely different.

Finally, LeeWare Development hosts close to 30GB of content on the gnutella network on a 24/7 basis. We basically see datastreams (metered / throughput) = data going to users at rates between 1.5Mbps - 6Mbps. We use the latest version of LimeWire to do this. I can assure you that it is definately not the program.

Hope this helps.

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Please see my response to Arlene -- Also keep in mind that paying for the program does not mean that you will magically be able to do things with it you couldn't do with the free one. It's the same results, same people hosting those files and therefore you are subject to experience the same problems when trying to download stuff.

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holy crap this is long how do you start a thing like this ?

By participating.

I'm using LimeWire file sharing software for both downloading and uploading purposes.

I have been using ADSL router (D-Link DSL-500G) connection since last month (used to connect to Internet using dial-up modem which still available now).

Whenever I use LimeWire with router connection, I find that in Limewire:

1) The file searching showed relatively less results, ie. it showed
relatively less number of available hosts (available to be downloaded) for a specific file compare to if I'm using dial-up connection and search... (This happened frequently)

2) The uploading slot is rarely active, most of the time it shows zero uploading and occasionally one uploading. However, if using dial-up connection, obviously after I have connected to LimeWire network, my uploading slots are very busy (from 2 to 5 active uploading mostly).

It seems that the router connection always "blocked" or filtered some of the hosts from reaching to my computer (shared folder) and vice versa. I would like to know how to solve this and enable all the incoming and outgoing network traffic (make it as universal as possible).

I tried using different version such as 4.0.8 and 4.1.4 but the situations remain.

Any advice are highly appreciated. Thanks.

Regarding the difference in results, the only thing I can think of is that when you connect via dial-up vs DSL your search horizon is different that is, each machine is connected to a different portion of the network. For example I run several machines out of several locations. Sometimes I can search from one and receive results from ALL the others other times, only from a few and yet other times none of the other ones. Don't forget content on the network is constantly shifting as people logon and log off.

Finally, regarding your ability to upload file to other users. I would recommend you check the library tab to see if you are getting hits. If so, then at least you know that you are returning results. Also just because you are not seeing any upload activity doesn't mean that your files can't be uploaded.

Finally, For all the people who took my advice above to increase their chances of actually being able to download stuff. Well, those settings i.e. filters will reduce the number of results you see because they will basically ignore anyone who is behind a firewall. This was good advise at the time however, there have been several improvements in the software that I'm not sure that filtering is necessary.


Hope this helps.


Good luck!

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First, the details: I am on a pc running windows xp w/ the xp firewall, 56k modem, avant browser. I have enabled Gnutella port 6346 as per Limewire directions.

I have has successful downloads as well as successful uploads, but the failure rate is high for uploads and since I am doing a large file I have noticed I frequently go from active downloading to position #1 in a queue (which I have taken to mean that I lost connection briefly, and the next person took my place).
The median transfer rate is 1 kps for both uploads and downloads. Download speed has briefly gotten as high as
4kps when no other downloads are active, but this not always the case. I have seen max upload speeds of 2 kps.

I am going to try to force my ip address and have used whatismyip which returned 152.163.xxx.xx. However, I also have pinged my address and gotten back 172.158.xxx.xx.

This is confusing. Which is correct? Can both be correct? Why 2 different results? Where do I go from here?

First judging by your IP addresses you are an AOL user. You are also using DHCP that is your ISP automatically assigns you can IP address everytime you connect to the network. This IP address probably changes each time also. No mystery here. Finally, There are several reason you might change positions in a queue.

#1 Most Gnutella clients request file chunks that is, some small portion of the file you are trying to download. When you complete downloading this chunk your client needs to make a new request for another piece. If the file is popular i.e. being downloaded by other users then their download requests would fill the slots. Leaving you in line.

#2 Sometime when downloading a file that contains multiple sources perhaps you were queued on one or more of the hosts but you don't become visable until you have completed downloading the segments for which you got an open slot.

#3 There could have been a break in communications (see #1)

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