Requery Sent

Hi, about 98% of the stuff i try to download keeps doing this requery sent!! other gnutella programs dont do it. why does this? is there a way i can find more sources for download or anything like that?
it says it for about an hour and i have to end up killing the download.
please help
thanks

[bobomon]

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Hi, about 98% of the stuff i try to download keeps doing this requery sent!! other gnutella programs dont do it. why does this? is there a way i can find more sources for download or anything like that?

All of the clients have to deal with the same issue... the host on the other end has either dropped the connection or gone offline. The requery solution is an attempt to re-establish the connection... and to keep from flooding the net with constant retries it waits x number of seconds before 'requerying'. Limewire just calls it requery - most of the clients I have tried have some form of mechanism to try and recover from a lost connection... they just have a different way of referring to it.

thanks. but i meant that other clients download nearly everything... i.e. kazaa. its never busy but nearly everything on limewire is. i am using a mac now so am forced to use limewire as i dont think kazaa is available for it.

[bobomon]

Posted by Unregistered
but i meant that other clients download nearly everything... ... i.e. kazaa. its never busy but nearly everything on limewire is. i am using a mac now so am forced to use limewire as i dont think kazaa is available for it.

That has never been my experience. I use 4 different clients and have pretty much the same experience across all of them... when the downloading is good it seems to happen with all of them when it is bad, same story. I continue to try other clients but have seen nothing yet that would convince me that Limewire is the culprit. No client has control of when the guy on the other end decides to shutdown his computer (hte biggest problem, I think) or when an ISP or Backbone provider spontaneously drops users.

hmm.. at least with kazaa if the guy does shut down his computer it searches for the same file off someone else straight away.. and usually finds it within a few seconds. also is there a way to search for the same file off someone else if it is busy? as limewire doesnt appear to change ip addresses when doing the requery? it goes back to the same user!!!

[Freiluft]

Since dynamic IP's are assigned at random, I don't know how you expect Limewire to know the new number.

The requery does sometimes work. However, the easiest thing to do is simply search again for the same file while the dl is still active.

[Joakim Agren]

Hello!

Dont give up on downloads to easy.Before killing a download you should do the following:
If you get the busy waiting for signal just wait untill the seconds has counted down to 49 seconds then if it still has not started to download highlight the file in the download list and click the force resume button multiple times and then once again wait until the seconds has reached 49.If it still refuses to download then you will probably not get the file and you should highlight the file and click the kill download button and it will stop trying to download it and drop the connection.

If you get the Requery sent message then if you are desperate to get that file just leave it there for several hours and about once every hour do the exact same search as you did before and eventually you will get the file.This is because LW will try to connect to the same host all the time but about once every 45 minutes it attempts to find new hosts to download the file from and if it finds one it will start the download but LW will also imediatelly try to download the file if it turns up in one of your searches so keep searching for it once every hour.

But if you get the the Requery Sent message and are not particulary desperate for it then you can just kill it by clicking the Kill Download Button.

IF you are using this method that I have described above and you are still getting only a 2% success rate(my success rate is about 25%) then something is definetly wrong with either your copy of LimeWire,The JRE,or your ISP or maybe the settings in your OS.

My advice would be that you update your Java Runtime Environment and LimeWire(the 2.5.X final version will soon come out).