Disconnected/ no files available
 

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.

Do U Even Know Whats Up???
 

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!

connection problem
 

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

Re: Do U Even Know Whats Up???
 

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.

connection problems
 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A possible solution
 

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.

A possible solution
 

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. :)

Disconnected/ no files available
 

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...

MAD!
 

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

disconnected and...
 

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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