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Title: status always waiting
Post by: rjad on April 25, 2005, 04:23:38 AM

Hi,
    I am using aMule under Mandrake 9.2.  I am a new user, but went through the getting started guide and everything seems to work well--could find and begin downloading the knoppix image no probs.  But when I try to download something I actually want, I never seem to be able to begin downloading--the status message is always "waiting".  I also don't seem to get anyone in the clients queue window.

I am guessing this is a configuration problem, I have opened the port and checked it on the testport site and it works, so I should be able to begin.

Any suggestions, or should I just be more patient?

Robert

Title: Re: status always waiting
Post by: deltaHF on April 25, 2005, 04:26:07 AM

hi,

be patient and read this (http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_is_slow) ;)

cheers

Title: Re: status always waiting
Post by: rjad on April 25, 2005, 04:40:48 AM

Yeah, I read that.  I don't mind slow too much, and as I am only just starting I can understand it.   I set my configuration up to try to be sensible given the guidelines. I thought, though, that slow meant slow download speeds, not slow to start.  I will try to be patient, see what happens.

Thanks

Title: Re: status always waiting
Post by: GonoszTopi on April 25, 2005, 11:32:06 AM

If the file you want to download is "rare", and the sources have more popular files too, then you might wait 3-6 hours or even more before your download starts. Double-click on the file name to see the sources, and the queue ranks you have at them. When they're all high (>1000), you cannot do anything but be patient. :)
As time goes by, and you start to have some parts of the file, you'll also share it, gain credits, and your download will start faster.