Finding downloads
 

Hi

I Have a large file that is 96% done and having trouble finishing it.

The funny thing is that my partner sitting next to me has it, but, when I click find more sources it never finds it on his computer!.
Seems I have to wait till the origional sharer gets on line again?

We share broadband through a 4 connection shared modem
We both have the same computer systems etc.

Any ideas??

Thanks

yol

That's an issue we seem to have to live with. Perhaps as the Gnutella netwk improves & LW makes the most of it, we'll hopefully see it happening less. (Add to that the increasing popularity of Gnutella & thus larger no's of sources.)
Why not ask your partner to burn/copy to zip or something for you. Then if you add that to your shared folders, you've increased the sources available 4 others. Somebody else on the forum might have an answer. It's annoying having a file almost complete & difficult to find sources! All I can really suggest is that you continually search & use as many variations of search criteria as you can. Personally I only have a dial-up, so I have same issues.

Hey, hey, wait. I was told (by a LW forum veteran) that continuously hammering the net with the same search only slows it down, so heed Lord's advice but only do a search (of the same file) every half hour or so.

Thanks for the replies.
Yes i have a copy of it from him on CD.
I was just wondering why this was happening and how to get around it.
Entering his ip addy is a good idea tho .. thanks.

yol

thanks for the help ..

ok

we entered eachothers IP addy and did search - no luck :(

we both did the tick on force ip addy

we re-tried it all again the next day .. and no way can we connect :(

says cannot search this host??

thanks again

yol

any ideas on how we can force a connection to each other?

Personally no I don't know. But if you use the new version (still in beta stage), you will be able to connect easily with each other! See http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27255 which discusses this in the present beta.