PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE use the PING options on your searches. THEY ARE THERE FOR A REASON! Do not bother people who show a (?) or a ping over 300. 90% of the time your transfer rate will be agonizingly slow. Pick people with pings under 100 whenever possible.
#2)QUEUED -
Dont stay in a persons queue day after day, or even hour after hour. Ask if they want to trade and if you dont get a response within 5 minutes or so, move on. Most people with alot in the queue obviously have alot to offer, and are being OFFERED files as well. Most of them are traders and take the time to browse those in their list. If you have something they want, they will have either started you and entered your queue or sent you a message.
If you have nothing they want, you will never start, they will let you just sit
in the queue and wait and wait, for nothing. Why the asinine bastards don't just clear you out is still a mystery, they must get some sort of sexual power trip
that strokes their lame little egos when they have a big queue. Must be making up for something little, heh. But it is their queue and if they want to masturbate with it they may.
#3)SHARING -
If you have nothing to offer at all, either because you dont care to share, you have no hard drive space or dont want to use up bandwidth by uploading, then GOOD LUCK TO YOU! That gets you on a IGNORE list very fast, especially if you are trying to get a large file.
Those just starting out can find this VERY frustrating. My advice to you is to get many files going as fast as you possibly can. Start with very small files and build up a good base. There are alot of users so you can always find something interesting to you. Then, once you have stuff that others need, or have enough that people can see that you share what you get, getting whatever you want comes much easier.
It is also better to share the same types of files you are looking for....most people share only Music Files and Music Videos which don't usually interest those that have plenty of Apps or MPEG shared. No matter how many MP3's you have shared you will probably not be moved ahead of the Que when you are trying to get the latest AVI file. Try to have similar material for the person you are trying to download from.
#4)BE NICE -
Calling someone a asshole or constantly sending messages saying "START ME NOW!!" in all caps will not get you the file any faster. It gets you, once again, on the IGNORE list. Asking nicely or explaining that you need to resume a file and are almost finished can sometimes get you in.
#5)BROWSE -
When you are trying to get a small music file, and end up queued#, browse that person to see if they have alot of large movie files. Movies take a LONG time. Being queued 1 when the person ahead of you is getting a movie is the same as being queued 30, you will wait for eternity.