When click on "Download", nothing happens

birdy · #1 (**permalink**) August 27th, 2006

Is the file going into the download pane? If it's not, you might have a license issue (click on link)

sara67986 · #2 (**permalink**) August 29th, 2006

Thanks, Birdy...

I corrected the license issue. However, when I select a file to download, click "Yes" to the license question, it just sits in "Connecting" status until it finally says "Need more sources".

I followed some of the advise about running the tests. I do not have a firewall issue and the speed test came out to by 7900kb/s or so. Is that good? I have no concept of what is good or not.

Any more ideas? It seems like the whole program is running extremely slow. I have restarted a couple times with no change. I used to have no problems. The downloads would go really quickly and rarely said "Need more sources".

birdy · #3 (**permalink**) August 29th, 2006

Those things that sit connecting forever are fake files... they're all through the network. It's just a pain!
Typically, these fakes are new releases/very popular (but not always) & have lots of sources... up to 100.
Stay away from files that have huge numbers of sources, go for a file with 10 sources or less. Search again & vary your search terms - look for artist or album, rather than song title. Try the All Types search. If you're looking for video, check a file before download with Bitzi... if the file's been rated then you'll get an idea of content & quality (a video file with lots of sources but no Bitzi rating is often a fake).

Your speed looks pretty fast! Is it just your downloads that are slow? Has this just started happening lately? Who is your ISP?
Download a file from here & see what speeds you get
http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml

There's good advice here about setting up LW for best performance, see if that helps
Configuring LW for best performance

sara67986 · #4 (**permalink**) August 30th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by birdy

Those things that sit connecting forever are fake files... they're all through the network. It's just a pain!
Typically, these fakes are new releases/very popular (but not always) & have lots of sources... up to 100.
Stay away from files that have huge numbers of sources, go for a file with 10 sources or less. Search again & vary your search terms - look for artist or album, rather than song title. Try the All Types search. If you're looking for video, check a file before download with Bitzi... if the file's been rated then you'll get an idea of content & quality (a video file with lots of sources but no Bitzi rating is often a fake).

Your speed looks pretty fast! Is it just your downloads that are slow? Has this just started happening lately? Who is your ISP?
Download a file from here & see what speeds you get
http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml

There's good advice here about setting up LW for best performance, see if that helps
Configuring LW for best performance

I think downloading the ones with less sources worked. Curious, though, because before I started having this issue, I would have more success with the ones that had a lot of sources and the ones with less either took forever or always errored out saying "Need more sources".

Did something change with Limewire?

Well, either way, I appreciate your help!

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