Extreme frustration downloading files
 

8 out of 10 attempts to download stuff gets a "Requery Sent, waiting XXs for results" and nothing ever happens.
if the items are not downloadable, why bother listing them??!?!?
and sometimes, a file is being downloaded, and halfway through the downloading stops and that "requery sent..." message comes on. what is actually going on when this happens?

limewire is quite the piece of useless program!

Same here zip,.......not sure whats happenin.

There is no solution for this problem, and you will experience this with any filesharing app you use, - especially if you don't have a direct connection to the internet. LimeWire will finish most of the downloads after a while, but this can mean running it 24/7 for a couple of days.

re: "There is no solution for this problem, and you will experience this with any filesharing app you use"...

I beg to differ. Macster never gave me a mesage like that... Aimster never gave me a message like that and neither gave me heartache like that. Asking someone to leave their computer running 24/7 in order to download small (or large) files is ridiculous.
I have found out that if a 'requery' message comes up it is sometimes helpful to close Limewire and then re-open. On re-open I will get another 1% or 3% to download before 'requery' shows up again. I have plodded along downloading a file 2 or 3% at a time until it finally completes. Now... how dumb is that??

If songs or files aren't available, why not just not make them visible? If we don't see 'em we won't %&$#@@%^ or lives away downloading at the ridiculous rate being a Limewire subscriber dictates.

Extreme Frustration
 

Sooooo Slow, It did not run that slow last year. I found something by accident though. I had an error message and opted to copy and email to bugs at limewire. Later I pasted to artist a name I "thought" via cut and paste, I somehow did not capture my intended copy, instead I pasted the limewire properties info. I found that lime wire is set to limit download speeds to 5kb. "MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES_PER_SEC=5"

I know it is not because I running on a 56k, because I get the same limit on a T1 connection.


What is that all about?