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Old January 24th, 2002
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Question Always says Could Not Download.

I don't know if it's my computer or if I'm behind some sort of firewall (I don't know if I am or not) , but every time I try to downlaod anything it says searching... then says could nto download. I don't know whats happening but when my sibling also tries to log into Morpheus it says that she cannot register due to firewall problems and I am thingking this could quite possibly relate to one another. What should I do about this so I can actually download files?
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Old January 24th, 2002
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I agree I have seen exactly the same operation with 2.1.3 Pro, arround 9/10 off attempts fail with a "could not download". I do have a firewall running but even 4 star results (No firewall) have this same behaviour
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Old January 29th, 2002
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Facts:
(1) using LimeWire 2.1.3 on Mac OS X
(2) I am not behind a firewall
(3) I do not select IPs that are red (i.e., IPs behind a firewall)
(4) I tried (and failed) to find the answer at the gnutella's forum for the answer
(5) 99% of the times I try to download, LimeWire tells me "Connecting to ..." and then "Could not connect".

Your help is appriciated!
Thank you,
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Old January 29th, 2002
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Unhappy "Couldn't Download" since installing "new" LimeWire

I just installed the new Limewire -- banner ad's and all -- and now everything I click gives me "couldn't download" too. I'm on a cable@home connection on Mac OS X and had the previous LimeWire woring just fine a few minutes ago ... if anyone can help please e-mail me at: [email]*** and I'll be your best friend.

At least the new Limewire has a direct menu-link to this forum though ;-P


EF

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Old January 31st, 2002
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Default Could Not Download

I don't always get the "Could Not Download" error message. Sometimes the downloads come through quickly and efficiently, and sometimes the searches immediately give me "Could Not Download". How come some of them do this?
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Old February 1st, 2002
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Default me too - 90% Could Not Connect

Me too

to paraphrase:

"(1) using LimeWire 2.1.3 on Mac OS X
(2) I am behind the OS X firewall - Brickhouse activated
(3) I do not select IPs that are red (i.e., IPs behind a firewall)
(4) I tried (and failed) to find the answer at the gnutella's forum for the answer
(5) 90% of the times I try to download, LimeWire tells me "Connecting to ..." and then "Could not connect". "

Using a cable modem and Comcast. Morpheous under VPC works fine. Before the upgrade to 2.1.3 the GUI was flakey but I had more consistant downloads. Now the GUI's better but the downloading SUCKS.

I was going to upgrade to Pro - but will now wait for a more reliable version.

What's going on?

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Old February 5th, 2002
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Just let it soak!

Like a solution for stained laundry, what worked for me with LimeWire was patient soaking. I launched the program, and let it run in the background for a few hours (with connection "on") while I was doing other work.
I don't know if it will work everytime or for everyone, but it worked for me. Subsequent searches were fast, and 90% of the downloads were successful. Even red ones (behind firewalls.)

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Old February 6th, 2002
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I am having the same problem. I am running Mac O/S 9.1, NOT behind a firewall, using a dial-up connection, do not click on red IP's. I have yet to successfully download ANY kind of file from LimeWire. The most current problem is that it ALWAYS says "Could Not Download".
HELP!! I am getting frusterated!
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Old February 6th, 2002
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I still have Limewire 1.7 on my hard drive, so I launched it today and was able to use it successfully (even downloaded a few files!). One thing I noticed, though, was that in the "Connections" tab of 1.7, at least 6 incoming hosts are shown, whereas in the new version, only 3 incoming hosts are shown.

What is the difference here? Does "incoming" refer to the downloads, or the searches for shared files? And does "outgoing" refer to the uploads ...or downloads?
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Old February 6th, 2002
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Newer versions use UltraPeers (protocol v0.,6) instead of the classic gnutella model (v0.4). With UltraPeers, you are connected to many more hosts at one time while not wasting any bandwidth. Only relevent searches are sent to you, and since the traffic is greatly reduced, the search horizon broadens drastically.

Incoming or Outgoing simply refers to the idea of "who initiated the connection." If you initiated it, it's called Outgoing, and if someone else initiated it, it's called incoming.

You can still increase the number of UltraPeers you connect to in the New UltraPeer versions of LimeWire (2.x and later).

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