Ok - here's a interesting change.. I can connect to connect3.bearshare.net now, and it fills up with server.. at which point they all disappear after a short time.. I'm getting a whack of dropped incoming packets according to the Dropped column in the connections tab.

Thanks JulieZ, the connect3.bearshare.net worked for me.

However you would think the people at Limewire would try to make it easy on us buy putting some connections to try on the front of their page: "If they were smart that is". Kind of makes me wonder if the vehicle were driving is safe.

Gnotella 1.0.5 was still the best client on the net as far as I'm concerned Chat or no chat. I sorry it’s gone.

I tried a few of the hosts listed and none of them would work.

After I quit LimeWire, it apparently blew out its own preferences, because when I restarted, I got routed through the setup thingee.

connect3.bearshare.net worked this time.

Bizarre.

Just update to version 2.5.5 and now will not connect. Have Time Warner in NYC. Never had problems until today - goes to red. I ran the test to see if my ISP has blocked gnutella (enter "telnet 64.61.25.171 6346" under Run in the Start menu -- and it appears that TW is blocking OR that 2.5.5 doesn't work.) Hope they fix.

hey...well i dont know what i have but i know it has issues...ive had limewire for a few months now and then today it chucked a hissy fit and now it wont connect. im in australia so its not just california or whatever. sorry but i dont know the computer lingo i know i have mac OS9.2 i think it is...so whats the go? help me fix the damn thing...i need my music!!! =o)

just installed 2.5.5. No connection using RCN Chicago. What's up???

i'm in england and i downloaded the new lime wire and now all of a sudden i can't conect to any thing !!1

I am using iswipe for powermac.
It shows that the gnutella(local) is showing zero files available.
It also shows gnutella(global) with 53.2 million files available, Hotline with 2.8 million, Carracho with 1.1 million and OpenNapster with 11.7 million files available.

This problem started two days ago. I thought it was because of an upgrade to 2.5.5, but that was not to be the case. Gnutella is not releasing any information regarding their local network being down. AudioGalaxy is up. Better to be patient, or for you mac users, you can get iswipe (beta version). It works alright, but you won't be able to see the gnutella (local) network, but you can still rip from the other networks.