Hundreds of sources listed, but won't download
 

Hi all, I'm new to limewire, just came over from bearshare. (yes i know it's the same network) Here's my problem:

the last few days, I've been trying to download ONE song from a not-immensely-popular band. I can find other songs by this band and they dl fine. I look for this one song and I get a ridiculous amount of sources (about 6000 currently), with anywhere from 1 to 100 sources listed for each file, but it WILL NOT download, or even connect. It will hang on "connecting" for quite a while and then go to "need more sources." I've tried this on probably 50 to 100 files over the last three days. when I try to browse hosts, also, they are unavailable, leading me to wonder if they're really there..... anyone ever experienced this before, or have any ideas? Thanks very much!!

~~Renee

EDIT: I should add that these are all 4-star sources, and I've read the "optimizing success on LW" or whatever it's called thread, and disallowed the suggested IP addresses... which made no difference. TIA...

The files with all the sources are fake. Try the links in this thread for advice: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...highlight=fake

Thank you 6pac! I did a search on the album name and came up with 2 files for this song -- one's an m4a which I've no experience with, and it's slowly downloading now off a modem. the other one says "waiting on busy host" which at least sounds legit! Thanks again for your help.

:dance:

~~Renée