After dumping the KaZaA Lite/KaZAooM combination, I've used LimeWire v4.12 for about a year but have not been able to find a LimeWire companion program similar to KaZooM, which would 'stir the pot' of unavailable files in the KaZaA Lite download queue.

For LimeWire downloads, a similar companion program seems to be needed because many sharers seem to drop offline before my downloads were complete, giving me too many incompletes with Awaiting Sources Status.

I've also noticed that, despite saying Waiting XXXs for Sources before finally coming up empty and telling me Awaiting Sources, LimeWire must sometimes be shut down & restarted 3, 4 & 5 times (!!!) before it seems to really connect.

For searches, I sometimes need to open 4 & 5 search panes before one starts to return hits on something that I know is definitely available somewhere.

Has anyone seen similar problems, and has anyone found fixes for them?

Get Peer Guardian 2
It Will block Hosts, that wont give you proper search results

Its a small program that stops most bogas host connecting and spreading,
Spam & fake files on P2P or namely Limewire.
Click on this blue link to download. Choose the nearest Mirror site to you, for download.
After setup, Don't forget to update, Peer Guardian 2, before using.
Phoenix Labs
Peace.

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mickjapa108

I just downloaded Peerguardian 2 about the same time I updated LW to 4.14.3 PRO. I've noticed that I also get very few search results, in addition to it taking much longer to get the few i do get. Could Peerguardian be working too well and blocking just about everybody? I did try using LW without the peerguardian being on just to see if there was a difference but I couldn't really tell.

From what I've seen, the problem is not programs in the computer blocking the downloads, it's LimeWire's free version not allowing access to all users/connections.That would be like using Google with filters: you'd never know if you were seeing all of the available results.

Except that I'm using a PRO version, not a free version.

Cos, I don't think PG2 has anything to do with you're problem. I have the same version of Limewire Pro along with PG2 and I'm having no trouble. PG2 is blocking 1,149,894,302 IP's and everything is good.
Have you posted you're system details??
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...-you-post.html.

We might see something that is causing you the grief. Hope this helps.

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Hi cosimaf.

You could download Aaron Walkerhouse's full Hostiles list at,
The TechNutopia Fullsize Hostiles List for BearShare and LimeWire - TechNutopia
That is for just the gnuttela network
You must have an up to date L/W version,
Peace.

P.S. ebob2K Dose not know what he's talking about, Don't listen to him.

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mickjapa108

Yes, I just posted them. I'm able to dowload files and my connection status always says turbo-charged. it's just since dowloading this 4.14 Pro version, both the speed of searches and downloads has slowed down to a crawl and I get fewer search results as well. I do manage to occassionally get some higher speed downloads but mainly it stays in the pretty low ranges lately-like 2-20 something and sometimes in the 30 and 40s or a little higher even less often. I don't see uploads all that often either. I can't remember if that brickwall has always been there or not but I sure never had to configure anything before and it all worked just fine. I'm going to kick myself if it has been there all along when things were working fine. I set my aloowance of uploads to 2 per person and only 2 people at a time, thinking I would save on memory drain or something or to help speed up my downloads so I hope that isn't contributing to the problem.

I don't understand how this will help. What does this do? I looked at the link but I don't understand what it's really for.

You Download the list & put it in L/W , details of what to do are there.

To Block ISP's that have no other purpose, than to slow you down,deliver fake files & generally interfere with the running of Limewire.
OK,
Peace.

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