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Old December 31st, 2003
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I disabled the tips and the auto login and i still cant get on. The thing is that sometimes it lets me connect no problem and other times it wont connect. The green light lights for about a second or less. Its really starting to **** me off. I had to get rid of my kazaa because of my popup blocker so i decided to go with limewire but its giving me more problems than kazaa did! and sorry but the downloading is not faster than kazaa...its about the same but oh well. im not gonna upgrade to pro because i wont pay for something i cant connect to.
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my isp port thing is 6348 not 6343 or whatever you said....who frickin knows im done with messing with it. ill just let it fix itself. its gay.
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my isp port thing is 6348 not 6343 or whatever you said
So you changed it already the default setting is 6346.

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no i didnt touch it...i didnt even know you could change it until you said something. it was 6348 originally.
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no i didnt touch it...i didnt even know you could change it until you said something. it was 6348 originally.
Believe me all Gnutella applications (including Limewire) use the port 6346 as default. This is the Gnutella standard port. So you or an other person has changed the port... but you can also use the port 6348 if you like it more.

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I installed Limewire yesterday and checked the default port - it is 6346!!! I was sure about this it without the need to check it!

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If port 6346 is not available for some reason, LimeWire will try other ports automatically. It's possible that LimeWire found port 6348 to be working and made that your new standard port.
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If port 6346 is not available for some reason, LimeWire will try other ports automatically.
Aha!?! Good to know, does it also work through firewalls? I mean does Limewire choose the port 80 if no other is open and the firewall is enabled?

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Aha!?! Good to know, does it also work through firewalles? I mean does Limewire choose the port 80 if no other is open and the firewall is enabled?

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Unfortunately not. LimeWire can only determine if some other application is already listening on one port and thus blocking it on OS level.

There is no efficient way of finding out on which ports a firewall allows incoming connections since you would have to ask a number of other Gnutella peers to try to connect to you before you can be absolutely sure a port is not working (limewire will send 10 connectback messages AFAIK to determine if you are firewalled).
I'm pretty sure the LimeWire developers will have strong objections against sending even a hundred TCPConnectBack vendor messages to test a small range of ports.
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Unfortunately not. LimeWire can only determine if some other application is already listening on one port and thus blocking it on OS level.
thank you for all the infromation I have tryed chaeging the port to 80 and I was connected for about an hour then I got disconnected and went back to 6346 and got a good connection for thirty min and I got a massege that sayed that I did not have a active internet connection but I had a connect speed of 46666 so I shut it down and I just got back online so if you figer out the problem is let me know I like LW and would to keep using itis
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thank you for all the infromation I have tryed chaeging the port to 80 and I was connected for about an hour then I got disconnected and went back to 6346 and got a good connection for thirty min and I got a massege that sayed that I did not have a active internet connection but I had a connect speed of 46666 so I shut it down and I just got back online so if you figer out the problem is let me know I like LW and would to keep using itis
Call your provider, ask them if they are blocking, reducing the the speed or cutting your connection with some ports, ask them especially for the port 6346...

If not...

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