i've noticed in the gnutella forums that limewire has the most threads posted on it by far. i take the reason for this to be the unreliability of the program. i've "tried", unsuccessfully, to use limewire since os 9.1. i can honestly say i've downloaded approx. 6 files off of limewire in the last year and a half. it always ends up with bunk search returns, or the famous "infinite requery". sometimes i disconnect and reconnect and will get more search returns, but alas, there is always the naughty "infinite requery" to dash any hopes of trading any files. i don't want any help with this problem, because there really is no helping this situation. limewire is crap. sure it may work wonders for a small percentage of you, but for the rest of us, we're tired of posting useless threads just to get the same reply to the same question:

"i can't d/l a thing!"
"uh, are you behind a firewall?"
"no"
"........"
"thanks"

so what are mac users supposed to do? i have yet to run into anything semi-comparable with Morpeus, or Kazaa. does anyone use these progs on virtual PC with any luck? all we have to choose from is limewire, mactella, and carracho. i need music, files, information, community!!!

Get a PC
Theire cheap 2nd hand

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I have a lot of sympathy re the "infinite requery" - its pretty horrible (and definetly misleading) - but hey - 6 files in 18 months? - even with a mac thats not a system working properly - LW is (I think anywayz) one of the very best p2p packages and judging by the posts of folks using macs your experience is highly unusual

Hi folks,

Actually, I suspect the reason for more posts on Limewire is because the ability to connect to a public forum is part of the Limewire interface. Just click a menu item and you are there. You need not have a PHD in advanced rocket design to get some extra help.

From the Windows point of view:
I have win98 in an older 500mhz machine (PC) and all of the LW versions that I have run work as expected. I have also tried the other gnutella clients. None of them amazed me as 'super wiz bang stuff' so I still use LW. I have no offical connections with the Limewire developers. I sometimes write software and do appreciate the little extras that Limewire provides.

From the reality point of view:
If you walk into a major software sales retailer about 98% of the software is written for (IBM) PCs. In some it is 100%. I wont go into why Apple shot themselves in the foot on third party software development. Just be happy that software developers still do a lot of extra effort to support a very small portion of the market.

Finally, in a democracy, we all get to vote. I say Limewire is pretty darned good.

Ken