I just purchased limewire pro, but i haven't been able to download even a single byte of information. I have forwarded correct port in firewall, router, and in the limewire program.Like I saw in posts.I have this problem both before and after installing service pack 2.I even tried disabling firewall altogether.I passed the port test on Lord of the Rings signature and the self test "true" in bug reporting. All i ever get even when 200+ users have a song etc... is waiting for busy hosts,connecting, or need more sources.Any help here would be appreciated.

Some optimisation hints: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...5&pagenumber=1

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27036

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...tid=94545#post 94545

I folllowed all steps in these optimizations,still not a single byte.I have a 4000 kbps download speed my connection to server is turbocharged.I had a file set to download all night with over 100 4 star users.I tried cancelling it and restarting it this morning,but same thing I have never actually connected to a user to begin downloading

Have you viewed your monitor window in LW? Are there people uplding from you?

I find your situation odd that there's nothing blocking your connection up/down but you're not getting good results if you followed the hints I gave. Then try to concentrate on particular dwnld files rather than a group of them. If you cannot connect to one with a lot of sources, delete it from the dwnld list & reselect it. Do that a no. of times & then search again for sources. Sometimes a particular slot on someone's machine becomes available (if it's really an extremely popular file.)

You're probably aware that not uncommonly when you do a search for an item, almost identical results will show up that are not grouped with others. Try choosing these alternative ones. Also make a note of the type of connections you generally choose. Try choosing some of the others instead for a change like dial-up modem or cable, etc.

You might just be very unlucky. Try again at a different time of the day or week or both. Sometimes I've had incompletes sitting there for many months before I had success with it. And people log on & off at various times & days, etc. If you're sharing it's much easier to connect to dwnlds. Some people filter out those that don't share more than 5, 50, 500 or more files, so you'd never be able to connect to them if you're only sharing 2 files for example.