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Old July 22nd, 2007
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You're right, Clearwire are known to throttle & block p2p.
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There was one person who posted here, who could get a connection & even got some reasonable download speeds
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...p-address.html

Make sure that the XP firewall's configured to allow LW.
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Change ports in LW. Tools > options > advanced > firewall config, change LW's listening port to 64049 > apply > ok. You can also try other ports in the range of 49152 - 65535

Set up port forwarding for your router. The instructions are here.
Port Forwarding for the Linksys WRT54G
Don't forget the step of setting up a static IP address first! LW's listening port, port in the 'manual port forward' box & port forwarded within the router have to all be the same number!!
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