Thanks Bob,

I've only been with virgin a month, and havent had too many probs yet, may give it a few weeks but may keep a look out for other isps. We're on the max plan. Did you get hit by the 50 quid charge for cancelling within 6 mths? Im leaving at the end of the year, so not sure whether to hold out or change.

shan53168

You asked: No, because I started using Virgin sometime ago, back in the dim a distant dial up days, so I was not caught by their current range of restrictions.


UK Bob

I'm convinced that BT (British Telecom) are restricting use of P2P during the day. I can't get the usual Gnutella ports (6436 - 6348) to work at all, and shifting to another port sometimes only seems to work for a short while before downloads either slow to a crawl or stop altogether. Other times other ports seem OK albeit downloads are slower than normal. From about midnight I can download with no problem, mornings can be hit and miss. Other people I know who use BT and LW have noticed similar things.

There's nothing official and BT have a dreadful customer service helpdesk that it's not worth the effort contacting them. But this problem has existed for a while now

adding Hellas On Line (HOL)....blocks all p2p activity to rediculus speeds...

Ok, hoop - jumped. What is stealth supposed to mean?
(Edit) ok, sorry. I think I get it NOW. All I had to do was actually notice your fine print and read it many times. Between that and me, well, it took some doing.....

I now know that BT are blocking p2p, I've come back to use Limewire for the first time in nearly a month and it's the same response - I can't connect.

I think it's time to add BT to the list of ISP's that are blocking Gnutella. Ah, well...

Try at different times of the day. Some ISP's in the UK are blocking or shaping p2p only during certain times of the day (peak periods.) UKBobboy01 knows of some UK ISP's that don't shape p2p bandwidth at all.

Also, try a different port to connect through. Try one between 49152 - 65535. A good one to try is 64049. ie: go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change both the connection & listening ports. Actually just try changing the listening port initially. If no good, change connection port also.

I have Verizon Fios and I'm having alot of problems with gnutella. I was using bearshare and the performance was getting worse and worse. Certain files never work or the download will start and run slowly and then die. I find that small files work more often. Also if I were to que up maybe 50 large files and then leave my computer on for a day or two eventually I get some of them but not all.

I thought perhaps the version of bearshare was outdated so I tried limewire (which I also know to be clean of spyware - bonus) but limewire doesn't work at all. I pick files with lots of sources and a four star quality but ti doesn't matter. They just sit there for every and either never connect or say more sources needed which it never finds. I never see any uploads going out either. Bearshare always worked with uploads disabled or if I enabled it a ton of files would upload just fine. If I turn the search monitor on in limewire I see incoming searchs and I can search files but that's all I can do.

I have a routed but my p2p computer is set as the DMZ.

What I don't understand is if all they're doing is blocking the port why I can't just change it and have it work. I've tried changing the ports in limewire but it doesn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

What are the defaults? I changed mine and want to go back (I didn't try changing them seperately) but I don't want to reset all my settings to default. Thanks.

Default is port 6346. At least that is the "official" gnutella port. But if you were connecting via UPnP then it may select any port it finds available.