>It seems to me that since nearly 90% of all transfers shown on the monitor page have been interrupted, your error recovery protocol sucks.

Hi Jay,

Many of the answers limenut listed are absolutely correct. However, you should also be aware that we know that downloads/uploads can occasionally just disconnect for seemingly no good reason. Because of that, the next LimeWire version will be a little more aggressive in reconnecting to a host it is downloading from if it randomly gets disconnected.

As far as the term 'valid' goes -- it simply means that someone has reported the host having a file. It does not mean the host is able to service any requests. In fact, I have seen 100s of locations all be busy for a single file. The next LimeWire will contain what's called "partial file sharing", so all the people downloading the file can also upload it to others. This should help significantly with the busy/queued problem, especially for larger files.