: [ bad news. i have a full connection, but the firewall picture is still here even though it's status is off. and when i tried to download another song with two sources and it still said need more sources. the one from earlier is still connecting now with 1451 hosts tried. i'm really sorry because i'm trying everything you say but nothing seems to work. is there any chance there is one more thing i can try to figure it out?

If a file has 1451 sources, it's a fake!!!!!

Does every file you're trying to download give you the connecting/need more sources thing? Do a test...try to download an old song (2 years or more) with just a few sources.

If you still see connecting/need more sources, try this: Delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here & also point 2 if you've used older versions of LW in the past (there could be a folder in either location).
Fixes for LimeWire
This will kill all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things. If you're not sure of your settings, go through LW's tools > options & write them all down, so that you can reset things later.

okay let's see. i deleted the lw preferences folder and now i'm trying to download a song from like the 90s. is that right? it has two sources and..........now it says it needs more. i don't know if there's even anything you can do at this point. am i completely wasting my time and yours and just better off buying all my music from here? i chose find sources now it's counting down from 300 seconds to find a source even though it shows having 2.

Try installing a different version of LW. It's not too hard to try & you never know, it might help.The latest stable release is 4.12.4 & the Beta is 4.12.10.

okay i tried it. i got version 4.12.4 and at the first download attempt, i had to wait about a minute for it to begin downloading. then it was downloading from one host until it go to 3%then stopped again : [ i've waited another 3 minutes or so and so far it's stuck on connecting. anything i can re-do with this new version or anything like that to finnaly try to have this problem solved?

EDIT: it started downloading again and the speed is at about 21kb/sec. normal?
EDIT again: stopped at 35% says connecting again. [just in case you might need to know that for any reason]

it's downloading again, at 3kb/sec won't get past that now.

It sounds like your ISP to me, that stuff with the downloads stopping during download sounds a bit strange.
If those magnetmix files download slowly (or in case not at all) it can often point to an ISP problem.

Give me a little while to check around.

Ok, check this out.
Review of HughesNet Satellite Broadband

This review suggests that there's an FAP & also bandwidth throttling for p2p programs. It's a fairly recent review. If this is what's going on, there's probably not much that you can do.

thank you so so much!!! you're right, this is probably as good as it's going to get. thank you so much for putting up with both of our frustrations!!! : ]