Whenever I have Limewire up for awhile, about 10-20 minutes, it locks up my internet entirely. The computer slows to appearing frozen, and no windows will open for about 5 minutes, and when they do, all the clicks I've clicked in the meantime happen all at once & the internet comes back a-ok. If I can catch it within the first 30 seconds of freezing & close Limewire, I can have everything back within a minute. If I just leave it be and don't interfere at all it takes about a half an hour for everything to come back.
I've tried it with and without various firewalls, with everything but the plain-ol firewall feature turned off in ZoneAlarm, older versions of Limewire, and with Java 142, & 141. I've just finished doing a fresh install of XP Home- Last week I added RAM & now have 512, I've tried it with the default internet settings that come with XP, and with the Cablenut fast cable preset. I use a RoadRunner cable internet connection, and they tell me they don't block anything from their subscribers as long as they don't intall the firewall that they provide with the service, which I don't, and have never have used.
Yesterday I installed Limewire 411, and I still have the problem.
The system is a Dell Dimension XPS, Current (A11) BIOS, PIII 700MHz, 512 PC-100 RAM, XP Home w/ all updates, currently running Peerguardian v1.99 pr14, ZoneAlarm pro 5.0.590.043 w/ full access available for Javaw, Norton Antivirus (Auto-Protect enabled) version 10.0.1.13, Java 2 1.4.2, I've got all the default Microsoft services enabled in msconfig except the following: Indexing service, Fast user switching, IMAPI CD-Burning, IPv6 Internet Connection firewall, Messenger, Remote Desktop Help Session Manager, Smart Card, Smart Card helper, Internet Connection Firewall(ICF)/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).
Currently cablenut has its settings to: Large Buffer size=8192, Medium buffer size=3008, Small buffer size=256, Transmit worker=32, Enable PMTU Discovery=1, SackOpts=1, Tcp1323Opts=0, TcpMaxDupAcks=2, TcpUseRFC1122UrgentPointer=0, MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server=8, MaxConnectionsPerServer=4, Default TTL=128.
I don't know what that all means, and I don't even know if it has an effect, as the problem occurs even just after a fresh OS install.
I hope I've provided enough information for someone in the know to come up with a solution- I know I'm not the only one having the problem, from reading in the forum, I'm frustrated at not finding a solution yet. I've attached a screenshot of my current task manager- I had just closed Limewire in order to send this post out, and everything else that was running when the lockup happened is still up. The only thing not running when it occured was the browser window I'm typing in now.
Thanks, everyone.

Greetings,

I had the same problem you are describing. I also have Zone Alarm. In Programs I set the Java program to ALLOW internet access. I noticed on start up that the Java program was also asking to "Act As Server". Everything worked fine for awhile then it froze up after a 10 minutes or so.
I am not a computer guru but I got thinking about my machine acting as a server with Zone Alarm and Norton running in the background. After freezing up for the 3rd time I went into Zone Alarm and BLOCKED the server rights for the Java program.
Not another problem !!
We can still share files but the computer, P4 3.0, doesn't freeze up any longer.
Hope this helps !!

Best Regards,
Ron

Well, RonR- I can't thank you enough!!!! After all else had failed you came up with the solution. I'd have never even thought to have changed specific permissions w/in ZoneAlarm. That explains why it still happened when ZoneAlarm was off- It still started being a server! Thanks again- I hope others will find this thread and have the same elation I have now w/ the solution finally applied.

Hi Chaps,

Excellent info. I too had his problem, and was pulling my hair out trying to get it to work. Id never have thought about changing things in ZA, cos even with it disabled it didnt work. Dont really understand how ZA blocked it even now.

Thanks again for posting this!! HAppy sharing

Patrick

I just installed LW 412 beta, and told ZoneAlarm it could be a server, and all's been well for almost an hour!!!! That hasn't happened since forever ago!!!! I'm sooooo happy!

OOOOO Nooooo! It took 3 hours this time, oh, welll

Please do NOT use Zonealarm 5.x betas (final?) they are preventing nearly every P2P from connecting. Return to 4.5 *or* get a much better alternative (search on zeropaid.com forum)

Bonne chance

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Not surprising....however- I've had trouble configuring both Norton & Sygate- Can anyone reccomend another that's worthwhile?

Kerio Personal Firewall
Sygate Personal Firewall
other suggestions here in that shareaza forum thread http://forums.shareaza.com/showthrea...threadid=20287 (disclaimer: I think shareaza IS bad, but many helpful suggestions are sometimes found in their forum )


Okay, there are others, but here are my other choices... (please note that I've not used any of those firewall softwares because I'm behind a router blocking all ports excepts a dozen like HTTP server, FTP, server, many P2P ports...., never got problems on windows machines and of course my mac )

Ciao

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Very good then. Thank you sir.