Why am I waiting in line when there are 80 alternate sources???

Limewire 3.4.5, by the way.

One of the sources has accepted and queued your request, but LW continues to check for an other or better source, I believe. You should see the number of the alternates change in the tooltip results as time goes by and more sources are discovered or rejected.

In other words, there's still a lot going on behind the scenes. You can glimpse some of it by having tooltips turned on.

btw, upgrade to the latest version (3.5.8)--there's even a beta 3.6.0 available. You should keep your old version installer, though, in case of problems.

That's why I'm confused.
I KNOW it's getting new sources....right now it's at 100 alternate sources.
I refuse to believe every one of those is busy, so why am I still waiting???

Don't know--sounds odd. Does this happen with all downloads, or just this one? I'm not seeing anything similar with 3.6.0 on OS 10.2.8, so "bug" seems unlikely for my set-up.

No, not all of them.

I'm starting to wonder....this particular file...always gets to 94%, then it loses connection to the source, and starts waiting in line for the rest. But it never gets the rest.

New problems lately too.
But I cannot upgrade...I need a certain type of package, and it's not there yet (in the Debian archives).
So I guess I'll muddle along.
*shrug*