It starts downloading then stops why?

Blackhorse 70V · #6 (**permalink**) August 16th, 2008

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Originally Posted by doogie01

I have been using limewire for ages to donwload files and recently it has decided to stop.

I get files from btjunkie to open in Limewire (the newest basic version) and although it says each file is downloading from various hosts, the KB/s reads 0. At first the KB/s starts to tick over and you get a time saying how long it will take to download, then it will go backwards and get to zero and stop.

Since you are downloading torrents, why not use a program that is designed for that purpose? LW limits the number of simultaneous torrent downloads and does not handle them well. I most highly recommend that you use a true torrent downloader such as uTorrent or Azureus.

I wanted a movie from 1967. I searched via LW for years with no luck until I finally found a torrent and had LW try to dl. After about ten days of waiting for the dl, I tried uTorrent, and got the movie in a couple of hours. uT seemed to take up most of my bandwidth, so I switched to Azureus. Download speeds are good to begin with, and when you get your share ratio up to 0.9:1 or better, the downloads get even faster.

Thanks to Remoc for showing me the path.