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Old March 12th, 2007
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I just wanted to ask the room whether they thought I should shell out for Pro. I've been reading this forum for two hours and I can't seem to find an answer to my question. Would going Pro be a good solution? I've posted my question below - if anyone can point me to an answer, or tell me if the people at Limewire will help me on this particular problem if I go Pro, it would be appreciated. [If other people want to talk about other merits or demerits to going Pro here too that'd be of interest to me as well...]

[My problem is trying to download a TV show (which is distributed freely online by the network, but only if you have such-and-such processor/platform, so is it ok for me to say that?), where I'm quite sure that I'm getting lots of legitimate hits for it, even if when I look up the hits I do get on Bitzi there are no comments on it - but despite all these legitimate hits, when I try to download the show it spends a long time trying to connect and then gives up. If I do a general search with the show name, it will pop up loads of results, but when I try to download one of them that almost never works - it's only if I'm very specific (s01e18, e.g.) that I get a very small number of hits (and even then only rarely), and those actually will download to me. Any tips would be immensely appreciated - I'd offer compensation ($5? $10?) if the person providing the tip had a convenient way to go about it.]
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Old March 13th, 2007
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Going Pro won't solve the problem of spam/fake files that are on the network.

For more info, follow the links in this thread: Fake files showing up in search results (Connecting for ages with many hosts & then Need More Sources when trying to download a file.).

Look up the files with Bitzi before downloading to help sort out the bad ones. Also preview files when they get to 15%.

The Basic(Free) version of LW is very good and buying Pro won't solve any problems. Pro connects to more hosts which can mean faster d/loads and better search results, but the differences are subtle and most of us consider buying Pro a donation to help in developing future versions of LW.
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