Sorry I wasn't very clear. I know the peer to peer part and obviosly people need to share files for there to even be limewire, but I was wondering if sharing or not sharing messes up downloading.

If you do not share will you not be able to download?

My options were set to no sharing because when I first got limewire a long time ago, and then I forgot to change it back, so I was a free loader.

But even when I changed it back, I still have problems downloading, I did all the recomendations for downloading better, but in the end the files that are partially downloaded or not at all will say AWAITING SOURCES for ever and ever.

So I was just trying to figure out why this is happening and if sharing had anything to do with it.