what does the term 'requesting push' mean and can i still d/l a file witht this status?

I was going to ask the same thing. I'm loven the program but I'm spending my life in requesting push.

See http://forums.gnutellanews.com/Forum5/HTML/000010.html

[This message has been edited by CycloCide (edited 08-04-2000).]

When a "pull" occurs, your client is attempting to download the file by asking for it from the other server. When you are behind a firewall, this type of connection does not work most times.

To compensate for this problem, a Push request is started which allows your computer to initiate the connection rather than having the other computer (which gets around some firewalls). This will never work if both computers are behind firewalls, as neither firewall will allow an inbound connection without an outbound to "authenticate" it.