say no ports available
 

Everytime I try to get on it tells me that there are ports or to choose a port. Then it say to choose from the configertion windows. any help would be nice Im using a dell with xp. thanks

RU4NU2,

I have been having the same problem for about 2 weeks now. I use DSL, so there are no ISP's involved. It worked fine until now. I have been trying to find the "config page" that they are talking about but have not been able to. I even tried upgrading to Limewire 2.8.5 with no luck. I wonder if they are not trying to get everyone to go to the pro version!!

Re: say no ports available
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RU4NU2
[B]Everytime I try to get on it tells me that there are ports or to choose a port.

When you start up LimeWire, go to: Tools > Options

From there, you can set all your preferences. Where to save files, which files to share, your connection speed, setting ports (that's under the advanced tab in options), forcing your IP if you're behind a firewall, etc.

The only difference in the Pro version is no ads/spyware. And supposedly, you get support from the developers.

If you have more questions, please post back.

I have gone to the options and done everything that you said. The ports tab under advanced says port 6355 while all the others say 6346. When I try to change the 6355 to any other number it tells me that it is either not a valid port or that it is not available. Today I deleted limewire, and java runtime and then reinstalled both of them with the same results. Any other ideas??

Bluesea8, I've had the same exact problems right down to the same port numbers and have also tried reinstalling with no luck. I guess all we can do is watch this thread and see if someone comes up with a fix.

Today I uninstalled limewire again. Then I installed the international version, like it said in the FAQ's. Not only did nothing change, but all of the preferences stayed in like I didn't unilstall. What is going on?? Ever since I upgraded to 2.8 things seem to have gotten even worse!!!

One of the changes they've made in the newer versions is to remember your preferences so they don't have to be re-entered with each upgrade. Not that this helps your situation. I'm sorry I don't know anything about ports. But, thought you should know about the preferences.

:cool:

Julie Z:

Keeping the preferences would work if you were just upgrading, but, I deleted LimeWire and Java. Then installed the new version not as an update but as a new install, so the idea of keeping my prefs shouldn't hold here.

If you are using a personal firewall it is possible that it closed ports 6346 - 6355. LimeWire will usually only try to listen on those ports, - if they are somehow locked by another application, LimeWire will show you an error message that it didn't find a port to listen on.

I just manually over-rode McAfee Firewall and shut it down completely. I was then able to connect, search and download a file without a problem. I've had McAfee Firewall running for the last several months but it's just been the last week or two when I haven't been able to connect to Limewire. I guess I'll continue trying to connect with the Firewall up and running, and if that fails, I'll turn it off again and try connecting that way. Hope this helps some of you.

It does not matter what number I try to put into the listening port. It keeps reverting back to 6355 and says that the port number I picked is not a valid number. But, all the other places where a port is listed the number is 6346.

As some extra info, I don't have a firewall. I am on DSL thru a router. the other puter on the lan works on limewire, and has 6346 for all the ports. I just deleted limewire and java, again, and installed new limewire 2.8.6 along with java2 runtime enviroment with no difference. I have ran scandisk, check disk, antivirus program, and ad-advise. They have found no problems. I have tried versions 2.5.5, 2.7.3, 2.8.5, and 2.8.6, all do the same thing. I was running 2.5.5 with no trouble. I stopped using it for about a month. Then about 2 weeks ago, I went on to try and download some things and that is when the trouble started. Nothing changed except for me trying the different versions. And that was because of the problem when I first tried to get on.