what is up with this....??
 

I'm getting tired of starting a d/l only at some point be bumped out of line....I spent the last 5 hours d/l a file only to get to 80% and get bumped to waiting in position 8....WTF....this crap never happened when napster was up....Also what is up with the chat???? It never works...One more for ya..if I open my shared folder in LW I have files that I never d/L'd they all are 30.1k in size..Earlier I deleated them all...now they are starting to come back???

Can anyone sugest a better program for sharing files?

PS clean the junk out of your shared and incomplete folders
and stop being greedy, share your files with others...
Dah !! isn't that what this is for
Just a few questions and some ranting..sorry
Art

Wow... you skipped P2P since napster's days? A lot have been happening since. The difference between modern protocols and napster is "swarming" meaning you are dling a file from multiple hosts at a time, so when an host go offline, others can continue your dl and it also speed up the time to retreive files... Be patient, your dl will finish, to help it do another search so other sources might pop up to add sources to the dling file.
Chats as problems, especially if you are firewalled, you might want to open the port 6346 of your firewall or/and router if you have them.
For the files in your shared folder: is it downloads.dat and downloads.bak? They're essential for remembering sources and data of the downloads between lauches of LWire. If it is not the files cited above it sounds like a virus you got. Clean it with an antivirus

Bonne chance

Actualy I been useing P2P on and off of a wile...My point is that when I ran napster on my dsl line I could dl a 3-5 meg mp3 in a few minutes...Now with lw the same file from another dsl or greater(t1,t2,t3) host takes from 10minutes to several hours to even days....Ya I'll agree things have changed...they suck!...The software that I pay for (yes I paid for the pro version...thought it would be better the the free version) is slower and has more problems the the software that napster gave away for free????
How do you figure that can happen???
Don't get me wrong I do like some of the features of LW..I just feel that the product should be a bit better ie faster,more stable,easier to use for new users...with napster you installed it and used it..No goofing around with it like LW
Art

the biggest difference between napster and all the modern p2p apps is that the files are not hosted on a central server, which means if a user leaves, he cuts his connections, which means a user getting a file now sees "awaiting sources", or if lucky "waiting in queue"

The files on Napster were not hosted on central servers. As far as that is concerned Napster would behave exactly like Gnutella.

uhhh...correct...it was the file indexes and such that were hosted on the central servers, not the actual files....still, it was the central server issue that got em, right?