I've been doing some thinking, and I've got the perfect slogan for this program.
"Limewire - Bend Over Just a LITTLE farther!"

seriously, kazaa sucks, and I know that now, my friend told me about limewire and I checked it out, and it seemed okay...but after multiple issues, what happened tonight just made me snap.

A simple song search is all I wanted...really it was. ***. So I go in, cllick audio, under title I type in "edited" and under Artist I type in "edited" and just sit back and wait for the results...

659 results...
658 - edited
1 - edited

yeah thats exactly what I was looking for... Now this is just me speaking, butedited....those 2 ARE different right? Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but...

After 4 tries I finally get what I was looking for. And limewire didn't lie about their download speeds though ,thats for sure...it IS faster then kazaa! Where kazaa has us downloading at speeds up to .02 k/s, limewire is giving us amazing speeds of up to 5 WHOLE k a second! (on average, some where higher, most were lower, and all downloading from at least a T1 host)

I think my favorite part about Limewire is the video selection. I love searching for music videos and getting porn instead! That tracy trix or whatver...wow! I love it so much that I throw up everytime I hear that name now...

Rant over, limewire is a horrible HORRIBLE program, and I'd suggest to anyone looking for a p2p program to have their gums scraped violently before hand, just to get a sample of what using limewire will be like!

"Limewire - Bend Over Just a LITTLE farther!"

And be prepared to wait and wAit and WAIt and WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT.

I'm in my 3rd DAY of looking at "Awaiting Sources" My pane shows "Turbo Charged" and my cable modem is indicting data flow but NOTHING.

Idtion that I was I figured if I PAID tfor the program I'd get a bit better results than with the free one.

Compared to Limewire, Kazaa and the others are superfast.

I was raised with the idea that you get what you pay for:

WRONG

You haven't done much searching around the forum about how to optimise your uploads & configuration have you? I think I saw the forum rules in a sticky at the top of the index but I just couldn't be bothered! Be bothered to read other threads on the forum before you make a post so you won't look silly. First example & 2nd example I bought a ball point pen & when I wiped it all over my face I ended up with ink all over. That's certainly not what I paid for. Perhaps I should have gone to shcool to learn wht it's used for 1st. Sorry I'm just having a joke. Don't take it too seriously. It can get really boring sometimes with people asking same questions or obviously not realising the answers to their questions are already on the forum. lol Don't take it the wrong way! am i RIGHT Those wre only 2 examples, there's plenty around the forum about how to improve your search techniques & results & resulting connections.

I didn't quote your snotty reply because of length restrictions. If you can figure out what the problem with "Awaiting Soure" showing for 2 and three days from the various subject captions in these forums, you're a better man than I am Gunga Din. I find it ridiculous to have to scan through dozens (hundreds) of posts to find something that SHOULD have been answered in the wholly inadequate manual availavle thru the base site or in the FAQs, And the "Help" is about as helpful as throwing an anvil to a drowning man.

Did you have a look at the 2 threads I gave you which are Stickys about how to get the best out of LW? Basically, awaiting sources means it's waiting for LW to fully decide if there's enough sources to to dwnld from. Needing more sources means the sources available are not strong enough (not enough dwnld resources) to dwnlad from. Queud means its waiting in turn for LW to identify its sources & decide whether they are strong enough & a connection can be made after several attempts. Busy means the source is already uplding to its max level & requests surpass the availability of upld slots. Waiting in Line means the source(s) is busy & you need to wait (it may mean even if you get connection for a dwnld you might need to share dwnld time with others in queu due to so many requests upon the source.) If you do a search for sources or search you will no doubt find threads with a detailed description on how to optimise your searches. You haven't told us anything about your system or connection. By the way this is not LW service support, this is a forum run by volunteers. There's been so many repeated answers for this issue. Every forum has rules, & searching the forum for your topic/problem before you post is one of those rules. Excuse my getting to the point. But when I get to the point I will get the answer or if I'm being insulted then I'll give what I feel like giving at the time. (Why should I sit here & be insulted for giving free advice!) lol

Yo people! Looks like you're all having fun here.
Well anyway, I'm not trying to butt in your friendly discussion here, but I want to clarify, or rather, make sure something is a known fact for all parties: the "Awaiting sources" status indicates that Limewire has 'given up' on the download, meaning that it won't try looking for new files anymore: LW likes (=needs) to be babysitted a lot and requires the user(s) to check up on it as often as possible.
"Why?" you (would) ask me. I'm not a developper/techie and certainly not an expert in the matter, but from what I've read here, Limewire devs decided to abandon the auto-search-for-new-sources feature because it slowed down the Gnutella net. How? By constantly bombarding the net with search messages from a gazillion hosts.
Result? Now we have to re-search for the files manually whenever we get the dreaded "Awaiting Sources" status in downloads. This results in a faster network and some frustrated users (much like Hilander), who wait for their downloads to leave the "Awaiting Sources status without knowing that they have to re-run a search for the file again to have a hope of achieving that.
Yup, it can be frustrating, but it's for the good of everyone.

As for graffin, I have to say this: I can't really say much about Kazaa since I've used it only a little on a friend's machine (poor *******) and, now that I have my own comp, it is incompatible with Macs (thank Gawd ). I, for one, am very very satisfied with Limewire (click the 2nd example on Lord's post to see how satisfied I am) and it's speeds are far superior to Kazaa's from what I've witnessed, as it takes advantage of virtually my entire bandwidth (how faster than that can you get?) while Kazaa went rarely above 10KBs (might have been that it was not configurated for optimal performance but I doubt it).
And the search results? That is not Limewire's fault: it's the users'. No, not all users, but some will intentionally rename a file and add a truckload of "popular" keywords to ensure that when you type in to find the trailer for the new Spiderman movie you get some stupid old porn instead. Limewire, and just about any other client on the Gnutella network cannot do anything about it. The devs just make the programs. The users then serve the files they want.
What you could do, is: if you notice an IP adress that has given you only false files then ban it. Ban the damn host. And good riddance to the lecher.

'k, at present I will let you continue your joyous conversation. Enjoy the Olympic Games everyone (they're being held in my home country so you'd better )

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-

Thanks for the clarification murasame. Not sure what the diff b'w awaiting more resources & need more... is; I guess it equates to the same thing. It's that time of the night for me. Enough & enough for this thread for me.

Oh just a last note you don't have to scan thru every thread in the forum. If you choose the searches I suggested above, you'll find your answer quicksmart believe me.

So how much gold will the greek goddesses bring home?

There is NO need for this type information to have to be dug out of a USERS forum. I never had to do it with any of the Sourceforge P2Ps. The meaning of every comment put up by the program should be clearly spelled out somewhere in the documentation or in the online FAQs NOT Hidden in comments on a voluntary forum. That's pure amateurism.

And, not that it matters, but I had already done ALL of the steps recommended in your linked messages. My complaint is that information which SHOULD be readily to hand seems to be only finable in these forus. or have you NOT looked at the "User's Guide" which is about as useful as a condom in a convent.

Oh, the gold is already home. The question is how much of it will they keep there.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-

We'll be trying to get as good a slice of the gold as possible. We usually do.

Did you see the lw webiste & dwnld the manual & faq.