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Originally posted by shelleydave
I use Norton. Do firewalls make a difference in down and uploading? What I mean is will one have more successful searches and such with or without one? How should I set the Norton up to let me, as well as others, continue to fileshare. |
On the average, downloads are more successful when the host is not behind a firewall. I don't use the Norton Firewall program, but I would imagine that there is an area where you can tell it what programs to access the internet and what port or ports it can use. Remember that LimeWire (as well as any recent version) is "javaw.exe." On Windows 98, this file is located in C:\WINDOWS by default.
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I have an RCA cable modem from AT&T @home and have limewire up and going. I have tried forcing my computers ip address and have also unchecked the force ip adress box but still have the same problem. No matter what I do, users downloading from me get "transfer interrupted" errors over and over and over again. As a result, it seems like it takes users way longer than it should to download files from me. Is this just something I have to live with or is there anything else I can do to make it so downloads don't have to stop and start all the time? |
If you are behind a firewall, you might try to add javaw.exe to the list of permissable internet programs. But if you are not behind a firewall, your Cable provider may be implementing a copyright protection scheme that might try to block the transfer or copyrighted material. But it sounds more like you have a dynamic IP address. Are your downloads starting over and over again? How often do your errors occur? Are they sporaidic or do they occur at specific intervals?