Ah! Thanks for discovering that, and letting the LW team know. Does 2.9.8.2 include a PUSH timeout change?

I just checked the Advanced statistics in Tools. GET and HEAD stats: totals show 15 HEAD, 5,270 GET, and no PUSH errors (but still > 29,800 PONG errors). Are these the relevant entries to monitor?

Happy Easter. Hope you had a good break.

[edit: don't reply; enjoy your break]

Pongs aren't very important for the network. They are used to inform leafs of other ultrapeers that they can connect to if one ultrapeer connection fails. However there are a couple of other ways to collect ultrapeer addresses, so pongs are a little redundant (on the other hand sending pongs is more efficient than a GWebCache request).

The push timeout changes have not been made yet. Adam said that the LimeWire developers will very likely remove the timeout altogether and accept a Push connection when it is established. Maybe it's going to happen in 3.0.

There are quite a number of nice features waiting for their release. Making it possible for queries to reach most of the network seems to have the highest priority at the moment. Among other things, there is traffic compression, and improved selective querying scheduled for release.

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I've been "Disconnected/No Files available" now for a few days. I just now uninstalled Limewire then reinstalled it. Lo and Behold... it now works again. This may not solve others problems, but it just solved mine. Might try it.

For the past 4 or 5 days I can't reproduce the connection error in 2.9.8.2, 2.9.8, and even spent a day with Acquisition 0.861.

I did manage to make LW crash a few minutes after unchecking "disable ultrapeer" in the speed section of the preferences on OSX once, and logged 4 other crashes, but LW and Acq were consistently able to connect 3 Ultrapeers long enough to search for the same 6 "rare" .mpg's. (btw, LW won the searching contest well enough to find about 4-8 hosts for most, and completed d/ling 3 of them). Uploads were steady and all 5 slots stayed filled, but few completed: speeds were rarely above 1KB/s. Stats showed about equal up and down traffic of about 1GB each way in 24 hrs. I used the spinning Lime to time the space between the fairly narrow searches.

Firewall is open to 6346, NAT is mapped for TCP 6346 (I even added ANY 6346), and IP was forced except for today when I left it unchecked--didn't seem to make any difference in the stats. [trap_jaw, do I need to force IP if the firewall is open and the NAT mapped? seems redundant]. This is running OS 10.2.5 on a 700 MHz G3 laptop to a cable modem capped at 1 Mbit/s, sharing 220 files/ ~5GB. No one else on my NAT ran a gnutella client, but other Internet services were working quite consistently.

Saw lots of other problems (Could not move to library, 5 unknown crashes when LW left unattended), but no connection problems.

The two things I did that might be a bit unusual was to block any client returning a lot of spam (anyone want a list of 509 blacklisted IP's? they should be good for a few days before the DHCP's change. I think this is why LW had more success finding and retrieving "rare" files, so the hope of better queries looks to be happening) and to occasionally prune the Ultrapeers in the connections pane: I liked to see Acq .86's and LW 2.97 or better.

So--any suggestions on how I can reproduce the connection problem? I only have a day or two left before I give up gnutella (Lent is past) and go learn about HTML with the .mac homepage.

Cheers--sorry about the length.

Hello everybody,

I have recently installed Limewire 2.9.8 and had the same problem. For internet purposes I use an Apple G3 desktop with System 9.0.4 and Cable Modem connection; just find the folder ".limewire" and drag it to the trash can. You'll have to reconfigure the preferences when launching up Limewire, but in my case solved the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion. Removing .limewire worked. The real question might be "Why did it work?"
Anyway, I am back up an running on my wireless PC.

hi everyone, ok im having the same problem with my computer that darn red light wont go green....I dont no if this might be a coincidence but a couple of nights ago I was listening to music...and out of no where this Limewire chat poped up and there was a person asking if anyone was there and my name and stuff...anyways has this ever happened to anyone out there before...well anywayz bye...

OK i dont no wat i shoukd do cause if I delete my Limewire, then re-install it, do I have to install all the songs I had on before?
some one answer please

First, LimeWire has a chat feature. You (by default) have it enabled. Someone was trying to contact you via this feature. It is nothing to worry about. If you don't want it, go into Tools->Options->Chat and disable it.

Second, after uninstalling LimeWire, did you make sure the .limewire file was deleted?
I think it might stay in your directory. On XP it is in C:\Documents and Settings\(your profile)\.limewire
As mentioned it will remove your preferences, but those can be set up again after you reinstall LimeWire. This was the suggestion mentioned above and it worked for me. You could also try the beta version 2.9.9.

Third, as long as you don't delete the location your songs are stored....
ex. C:\Program Files\LimeWired\Shared
...your music should remain intact. Uninstalling LimeWire does not delete this directory.
If you are still worried, copy them to another directory. Good Luck!

Same problem here. Just installed v2.9.8 (free) and I get 'Disconnected/No files available'.

Using Win 2000 with a Comcast cable modem from home. No known blocks or firewalls. Using a router in the house but it seems to work fine between puters.

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