PIPEX have confirmed on the phone that they manage download speeds for P2P software. They do this during off peak times as well, i.e. all the time, but gave no reason. Before this change my download speeds were around 110K/sec - now they are 5 times slower, at about 22K/sec maximum.

I sometimes have problems with virgin when using limewire. It disconnects during download, i try to reconnect while lw is open to no avail. When i close lw and try to reconnect it works. Anyone else have any probs with this isp?

shan53168

I changed from Virgin to Bulldog because of Virgin's unannounced policy of P2P traffic shaping, i.e. killing off P2P while allowing surfing and non-P2P downloads.

I found that I could no longer download films or film clips and that I could only occasionally get the odd MP3. So after about 4 months of this nonsense I changed to Bulldog.

Before Virgin’s policy change I would have said that Virgin, despite it’s higher than normal monthly subscription, was one of the best ISPs in the UK and I would have been more than happy to stay with them. But Virgin decided that it did not want anymore P2P traffic on it’s network while still charging premium prices, so I changed ISPs.



UK Bob

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I thought perhaps the version of bearshare was outdated so I tried limewire (which I also know to be clean of spyware - bonus) but limewire doesn't work at all.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?

I am also experiencing the same connection issues where LW just says "Connecting..." and never does anything more. I've tried all sorts of things mentioned in the posts, and I think maybe verizon is blocking port 3128. Is that possible? I've also tried using proxies to get around that, and it's not working.
What am I to do?? Lime wire was working fine a couple days ago.

Greetings! I have gone through thread after thread, just saying that so you know I have tried many things. The only thing that comes close to my proposed problem is the "stealth" part. I got that result and called Verizon and they said they are not blocking P2P filesharing and wanted to transfer me to the "Premium Support Center" which would charge for it. I'm hoping to not have to pay more to get this program running. Please let me know if there is something I can do on my end to fix this.

FYI:
Windows XP SP2 (previously installed)
DSL (data line only - no local phone service)
Verizon
No updates
Connect from Home
No other computers connected
Detached modem (Westell 6100)
LW Version 4.12.11 Pro
Java 1.6.0_01
MS Windows Firewall (disabled and LW exceptioned)

Cannot get passed "Starting Connection"
One green bar
Searches time out (obviously)
Cannot direct connect to another computer (says it's because I'm behind a firewall)

Zenelle stopped responding to my emails... Just hoping you guys can help me where Zenelle didn't. If you need more info... let me know. Oh, and I can't uninstall the Windows Firewall program... even though I would love to.

Hi all you guys. Not a one for forums but just felt I had to offer words of sympathy. I joined Tiscali a year ago and joined Lime Wire for the trial period and had no probs downloading music. I have just given Lime Wire my money for a year to rejoin and sat for ages wondering why nothing is happening. Now I know why. Sick as a ripped off parrot. should have read the forums first. We live and learn but as you say makes you wonder what we are paying this money for Chow Chester. Ps suppose a refund is out of the question anyone?

My feelings exactly...............!

This may be important to some, but not all.

If you have Comcast, and you use Bittorrent. Comcast is blocking Bittorrent using something called ''SandVine''. There are some solutions if you search on google. This sucks for me!

I am also having issues. I use verizon and I do believe they are blocking port 6342. Should I try another port? How to go around this?