Waiting on busy hosts
 

Im trying to download some files that only one guy has got. Ive chatted with himn and he said its fine to download them, but when I try all I get is Waiying on bust hosts nd it doesnt download.

Please help...

please help us .... how long have you waited? ... do you know how many files he is sharing? I have just waited well over 1/2 hour for a busy host. The file is coming through now which actually was a pleasant surprise as this host is sharing an inordinately large number of files.

What exactly causes a host to become 'busy'?

that could mean a number of things, a) they are being bombarded with download requests, B) They are busy on their computers and dont want to be disturbed or, it could just be the host is not avaible at that time. ;)

Mr. Fly trap man: Now do you mean busy hosts, or do you mean "busy" hosts:D Sphinx's replyprompted me to ask......

I didn't reply before what with car maintenance, etc ... followed by an extreemly sucessful LW session (which does not seem to by everyones experience recently!)
which would not have occurred had I not been able to browse one particular host. ....

I digress. I answered this question to the best of my understanding in an other thread

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...busy+and+hosts

Does that make sense?

This might also help: See the following link & follow all the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link)
Also ask him if he can send you a magnet link! See the above link of links to find out how.

You can be quite the little smart a$$ when you want to be :D but I ask you... are you sure that I am a 'Mister'? Carefully think about that!;)

The thread and advice you all gave me helped a great deal.

Hi,
Ok I'm new so I'm just learning and I've read some posts here already but I could've missed something.

Here's a problem: I'm trying to download something that's 506.7KB (big file, I know). So I started downloading TWO DAYS AGO!!! I downloaded, went to bed because it was late, got up and it was at 2% and I tried to hit "resume" many times after getting "waiting on busy hosts" too many times!! This is so frustrating!!! Well yesterday morning it was at 2% then I got frustrated then j ust stopped it and started over again and last night, it was still 2% so it's not moving at all. It's still "waiting on busy hosts" and I tried to hit "resume" but it doesn't help. It's been two days and it's stil at 2%!! What do I do??

Thanks.

Search for more hosts & hope there are more people who have that file. ie: search the file topic again. You might be lucky & find other sources for the file & who have open slots. Busy hosts means they are busy uplding to other people & don't have any available slots at that time. Perhaps even try at a different time of day or week as those other people downlding might not be online at that time & hope the sources are. ie: They might not be so busy uplding to others at other times. Plus at other times there might be others who have that file & are online.

how do I search for more hosts?

Search the file-name again; using LW's search. Try an any type general search & don't make it too specific. Sometimes it brings in more results than a search that's too specific. That's because there can be variations in the name of a particular file.

ok this is making me mad...

I did a search, both specific and really general and I found the file I was looking for and when I went to download, it stopped and said waiting for busy host. I did that for two hosts and I cannot find the file on another host at all. How do I keep the computer from waiting from busy host? How do I get the file without downloading it for a long time bcause it's just a pain and it won't stop waiting.

Right-click the top of the column bar (be that downld or results window) & choose to show vendor/version. Does it say a LW user or a RAZA user. If RAZA then there's your problem. Shareaza spend most of their upld/downld bandwidth on another network & so Gnutella users are very often left with only a very small bit of any upld bandwidth (b/w 0.1-3 KB/s.) (RAZA's other network requires you can only downld as fast as you upld!)

If the user is LW then shame on them really unless they're just particularly popular to upld from & thus consistently have no free slots for uplding.

Sometimes this happens when there's limited no. of people sharing the same file. And if it comes from a RAZA user then it sometimes can be a painful long process to get the file. Patience is a virtue here. :rolleyes: ;)

ok now I'm getting "awaiting sources" all the time. I click on "resume" and it goes back to "awaiting sources" over and over and over again. What to do?

If you still have the search results handy, then cancel the downld & reselect the file to downld from the search results. Problem might be however that they've gone offline. But at least that will give you a fresh file to work with. Once you've resumed it & it shows awaiting resources then it is basically exhausted. The way I suggested will give you a fresh file to work with. Again, re-search the topic name of the file. Then try resuming if no go. But chances are they've gone offline by now if that continually happens.

BTW did you try to browse them? If you are able to browse them then that sometimes brings up new sources (via people who they are connected thru) & might even revive your downld with that person or the other sources found. Just a thought. It's something I generally try.

ok the file is at 4% and hasn't gone up at all all day. I want to start over starting back at 0% then go up. I cancelled the download and when I found the file again, it'd start again from where it left off, instead of starting over at 0%. How do I cancel completely so I can start all over again back to 0%?

You would need to delete it from the incomplete folder. But be wary of doing this. So many people make mistakes by deleting from the LW Library window. You can delete it either from the Library window>incomplete folder OR go directly to the incomplete folder & send it to recycle bin from there.

As I said earlier, if the source is a non LW user, then it can be a pita to get the file to finish sometimes. I've taken over 6 mths to complete some files believe it or not. lol :D But instead of deleting I tried to be patient until either I was able to get a slot from this person or someone else had also downlded the same file & become a sharer of it.