question about torrents

[fullmetal_pirate]

Please forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place. Im anot new to limewire but am new to the forums and do not want to offend anyone.

I am a good user, as I give more than I take, but I need someone to give me a tric, tip or answer as to why I am having no luck with torrents. I choose torrents with good health and lots of users, but in limwire they never get me anywhere. I have on in particular that got so far as 64% downloaded, but not will not finish. It says it is downloading from as many as 8 hosts, but at 0 kps. Everything ELSE downloads super fast, and my connection to the network is very strong. I have checked my firewall and all of that. If I could understand why it is happening then perhaps I could fix it. I only really use torrents when I can not find a file available through a search on limewire. Any thoughts? I should add that I considered myself lucky that that one got to 64% ( even though its still useless to me) because the others never began at all.

[Sleepless]

Sounds like a bogus torrent set by anti P2P

Try on thepiratebay.org or newtorrents.info

Another idea would be to try a decent torrent client. uTorrent or Azureus should do the trick

[fullmetal_pirate]

actually...I read someones post on a similar thread here in these forums, that said perhaps it is already complete and only saying it was partially finished because of where the bits and pieces of it came from so to speak. So I opened it up and surprise, the entire thing was there.

This should really be discussed more because I am finding that alot of people are having this happen. No one would think that if it said it was only 64%, it might not finish downloading because it was actually all the way finished. Another person suggested moving the incomplete file or deleting it and restarting, which I did on another problematic file and that fixed THAT problem. Its an odd glitch that causes this thing to happen, where it misreports how much of the file you have...and when I googled I discovered lots of people asking questions about this. Lots of posts with titles like " downloading from 10 hosts at 0kb/s" , so hopefully they can find their way here and hopefully they have the same situation as me so they can get it figured out.

I apologize to whoever that advice came from, I cant remember your name. But Kudos to you anyhow.

[techgeek]

Originally Posted by fullmetal_pirate

actually...I read someones post on a similar thread here in these forums, that said perhaps it is already complete and only saying it was partially finished because of where the bits and pieces of it came from so to speak. So I opened it up and surprise, the entire thing was there.

This should really be discussed more because I am finding that alot of people are having this happen. No one would think that if it said it was only 64%, it might not finish downloading because it was actually all the way finished. Another person suggested moving the incomplete file or deleting it and restarting, which I did on another problematic file and that fixed THAT problem. Its an odd glitch that causes this thing to happen, where it misreports how much of the file you have...and when I googled I discovered lots of people asking questions about this. Lots of posts with titles like " downloading from 10 hosts at 0kb/s" , so hopefully they can find their way here and hopefully they have the same situation as me so they can get it figured out.

I apologize to whoever that advice came from, I cant remember your name. But Kudos to you anyhow.

Like sleepless said, try an actual torrent client. I use BitTorrent.