Having problems downloading.
 

A file can have 300 online sources, but sometimes it uses only 1 or 2, and on many occasions does not start at all! How do I correct this? I am on an ADSL connection, all settings are jacked up so I should be getting maximum downloading speeds, I set it up so I'm getting "99 files at a time", and I am on Windows XP Pro and BearShare version 5.1, but this happens on all version.

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Thank you in advance.

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That could be a fake or it could be so fresh that you just ended up at the back of the line.

Click the plus sign icon beside the filename and enable the columns GUID, Host
and Version by right-clicking a column header or clicking the "Downloads ▼"
button at the top left corner of the download list.

Does anything about those hosts stand out, like no info or they are all similar
in some way?

I am not 100% on what you mean by "stand out" but I'll give you an example of one that... Is going unbelievably slow, (1 source, and the rest are simply not working.)

[img]http://img185.**************/img185/1671/87749905pi4.png[/img]

EDIT: Ahh, dang it... That didn't seem to work too well... Well, I'm downloading 4 videos right now,

Video 1: Version(79) - Host(79) - GUID(79)
Video 2: Version(84) - Host(84) - GUID(84)
Video 3: Version(91) - Host(91) - GUID(91)
Video 4: Version(163) - Host(163) - GUID(163)

Video 4 is downloading with a single source, the rest are not downloading at all.

Post the image here instead of that spam haven. The forum software blocks
that server. You can attach it to any post by using the advanced editor.

Okay, here is the picture. (Thanks for the tip.)

Sorry for the wait. It's up now, JPEG, but it's up regardless.

I see nothing because you haven't expanded the lists.
See the tiny box with a plus sign beside each filename?
Click it to open up the lists so you can see the details.

The images will be pretty big so just rename it as a .mov file.

Sorry that took so long.

No problemo. I was watching some of my downloads anyway. :p

Let's see…

Yeah, the first three are obvious fakes. Note how there's no info except
sometimes the first one will be a LimeWire node. In fact, none of those
computers exist, not even the first one, which is why the downloads don't start.
Those fakes exist solely to swamp your searches so they will stop before a real
file is found.


The fourth one is much better.
See how it has plenty of info about each source.
Right-click it and get a Bitzi ticket to see if anybody had something to say.

That still doesn't explain why it was going so bloody slow, at 1 source.

Also, is there any way to tell if a file is a fake before I attempt to download it?

The same columns are available in the search view too, as is the Bitzi Ticket
command. I have some tips on spotting the fakes and drilling through to the
real files here: How to spot and avoid fake search results.

So was there no info on Bitzi for the fourth file? Is it something really new,
like less than a week old? If so, you can spur along the download by tailoring
an advanced search to zero in on that one file to the exclusion of all others.

Go back to your search and copy or write down the exact length of the file
you want, then hit the Advanced button at the top (right beside the search
button), put the exact size in like this and start your new targetted search:

Keep that search standing by until the download is complete.
You can restart it at any time whenever the download gets slow.


You can even save your search as a Favourite so you can reuse it next time
you run BearShare. I have literally over a hundred. ;]

Thanks for the tips. =) There was some Bitzi information on the fourth video, again, I appreciate all your help. =) Is there anything else I should know?

…and of course whenever a download stops completely you can right-click it
and select Find more sources, which will find more Bears out there with the
exact same file. It's a different type of search because it uses the hash instead
of keywords, so it's more precise and works very well beside your customized
search.