Well I have read how to change the ports and things and it still doesnt help... 1st I changed it to 6346 then to 8080 and its still the same thing. I dont know why its started doing this because it was fine up until a few weeks ago. It is a little slow and takes awhile, but I used it alot. I still have all my songs but the red light never changes to green no matter how long I am online. Thank you

Seems to me like an ISP or firewall issues but I can't really be sure.

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Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

Me and a bunch of others have connection problems that NOBODY seems to know how to fix including you...all I see in your posts are speculations so until you really know whats going on, why even reply???...

Is there anyone here that can help us all out with connection problems???..

I wonder!

I am having the same problem. Has anyone discovered the solution?

Hello!

If LimeWire is unable to connect to UltraPeers it always means a problem either with a SoftWare FireWall(including OS naitive ones) or a Router that is not configured properly. The only other factor is if your ISP has started to block Gnutella traffic. Besides those reasons there is only one possible culprit and that is a corruption of LW itself. The only solution to that is to uninstall and then re-install a fresh download of LW from LW' site.

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<img src="http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/blob16.gif">Sincerely Joakim Agren!

A lot of people are complaining about "new" connection problems with 2.9.8.

I have installed many other versions - 2.6.x all the way to the latest 2.9.8. I can no longer connect from my PC that is hooked up through a wireless router. My main computer works, but not the other one. I really think something has changed in the latest version that is causing all the complaints. All the other versions work fine on both computers, but 2.9.8 will not connect from my wireless PC.

The reply to all the posts in this forum are not addressing the real issue. There is a problem...quit blaiming the users.

okay.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob

Hello!

trap_jaw correct me if I am totally wrong but dont the new version of LW have some kind of first initial support for the new Guess implementation meaning it has some kind of initial ground support for UDP traffic/connections?. If that is the case then maybe the problem is that the wireless router has to be configured to allow UDP connections. Another problem if this is the case is that alot of ISP's dont allow UDP traffic in that case it is not your router boods that is to be blaimed but rather your ISP. But this theory can be totally wrong but makes sense since you just started to get this problem with version 2.9.8.

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<img src="http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/blob16.gif">Sincerely Joakim Agren!

boods--you have a wireless problem, not a LW problem, right?

If your wireless tech support has some suggestions, please post back and help.

btw--trap_jaw's suggestions have been faster, cheaper and better than Pro support and the tech support from my NAT software. 2.9.8.2 is connecting, searching, uploading and downloading quite well, now that I've started to learn how to configure my firewall and NAT.

Here's the little I know: please add what you can

Start with a clean install, force IP, open up the firewall, map the router, share > 100 clean files so you don't get blocked as a spammer or rejected as a leech, and block anyone who shares spam.

By the way, stief, the reason why you had so few uploads when you were firewalled is that LimeWire's push timeout is way too low. Push downloads are effectively broken at the moment.

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Morgens ess ich Cornflakes und abends ess ich Brot
Und wenn ich lang genug gelebt hab, dann sterb ich und bin tot

--Fischmob