I cant get onto limewire. I have had it for 3 days and have been unable to get on. I cant download anything. I have done everything but nothing works. what else could i do?

I cant get onto limewire. I have had it for 3 days and have been unable to get on. I cant download anything. I have done everything but nothing works. what else could i do?

I cant get onto limewire. I have had it for 3 days and have been unable to get on. I cant download anything. I have done everything but nothing works. what else could i do?

I cant get onto limewire. I have had it for 3 days and have been unable to get on. I cant download anything. I have done everything but nothing works. what else could i do?

If you have recently downloaded and installed the Windows XP Service Pack 2, your connection to the network may fail now with the default settings of the builtin firewall.

(1) If you already have another internal software firewall installed, or an external firewall in your router or on the Internet gateway for your LAN, you may simply avoid many problems by disabling the Windows XP SP2 builtin firewall (using 2 successive firewalls will just make your life more complicate: use and ajust the settings of the main firewall which has a direct connection on the Internet; Note that there's no security enhancement when using two local firewalls on the same hosts; The Windows XP SP2 firewall is still in beta and will prove its stability only in a few months, most probably in 1 or 2 years, and it also depends on another Windows service that you must enable, and is exposed to other security risks: The UPnP agent.

(2) In other cases or if you still want to maintain the builtin firewall, you need to add "exceptions" for the ports needed to get incoming connections or incoming results via UDP in LimeWire. If you have not changed the default LimeWire settings, LimeWire expects to see incoming connections and UDP query/hits traffic on local port 6346. So you'll need to add the following exceptions in the Windows Firewall settings:

* Name: "Gnutella (TCP)", Port 6346, protocol TCP
* Name: "Gnutella (UDP)", Port 6346, protocol UDP
* With some security configurations you may also need to allow the "limewire.exe" application to access the Internet (this can be done the first time you see the Windows Firewall alert that asks you whever LimeWire should connect to the Internet).

The second one is needed to get faster results when querying the network, and allows better sharing of your files.

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I use Windows XP. I downloaded the new service packs before downloaded Limewire. I was able to connect fine for 3 days. i didnt have to do any disabling or firewall stuff it just worked. I upgraded to Pro, I figured I might as well support the program I am using. Now after downloading Pro I cant connect and have tried all the things the 2 threads suggested. I disabled everything , I added all the ports and such, still nothing. I even uninstalled Zonealarm, disabled the XP firewall and still added Gnutella, and Limewire and jawa to the exceptions list even tho it was disabled. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Pro. I checked Norton to see if it was blocking anything. I cant connect. Obviously my ISP isnt blocking me if I was able to connect before Upgrading to Pro.

Any help is appreciated.

I have also noticed that sometimes even when it says "connecting" at the bottom, some of the songs are downloading. I let it set for 30 mins or so trying to connect and I will get 2 or 3 songs downloaded, and the rest say need more soarces I cannot however add anymore searches because when I try it says I need to be connected. Can anyone explain this to me?

I think you need to have at least 2 green bars of connection quality before you can search for items. However you can dwnld if you have less (ie: one/two red bars.) I'm not sure about this. However if I might suggest to try the 4.1.5 beta (link on that page.)

i am going to try the beta, just to be able to DL music. But it would be nice if the one I paid for worked!

There is a beta Pro version. Pro users can download it from their personal download page.