connection on and off

I am running xp and have dsl. My firewall is off. My connection work sometimes and not others. It will just go away. I never had probs. before.

[cooterfire]

Also I am running limewire 4.6.0
Java 1.4.2_05
connect from home
have my windows firewall off
I have a zoom dsl motem
Limewire used to work great, now it will not connect most of the time, when it does it will only go to fair and then will go to connecting. I want to get pro, but if I cant connect I dont think it will help. I am a real laymen when it comes to computers.

[Lord of the Rings]

Try these hints: Fixes for Limewire

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=34114

[cooterfire]

updated my java to 1.4.2_04 deleted my pref. folder and redone, and right clicked and run with, set to win 2000. So far no better. If it does connect it will go to fair for a few min then back to connecting.

[cooterfire]

sorry updated java to 1.4.2_07

[Lord of the Rings]

IS that a USB modem or ethernet?

[cooterfire]

not real sure(dont think I am stupid) but I think it is ethernet, It is hooked to my pc with a phone wire looking thing and not not a usb cable.

[Lord of the Rings]

That's ethernet then! Got me bamboozled. I'm not sure what your problem is. May I ask who your isp is & I'll see if I can find any history of them blocking or filtering p2p speeds?

By the way LW Pro is not dramatically better. Most of the improvements are subtle. OK you connect to 5 peers instead of 3 with basic. But some people don't notice any difference. But then some do. I guess some peope move to pro expecting big things when there are no big things. Just little improvements that you'd notice if you still thought you were using basic. Get familiar with & confident with basic & then consider pro as a thank you to the developers who have developed & even helped out people on occasions on the forum with the basic version. That's one of the main reasons I help out on the forum (even though the forum is independent of LW site itself.)

I never had probs. before.

Then it looks like something has happened that has changed things.

Get rid of the 'old' incomplete files you have that are 0% & also from the downld list window. Leave LW for some time before working with it. Give it time to settle. And when possible where you are slaving over it, apply some of those suggetions I made in those above links. Yes there's days when LW does need baby-sitting but I tend to have a reasonable no. of incompletes & can open it & just more or less forget about it & it looks after itself. The longer it's open the more stable & effective it is to searching & ...

[fabion]

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updated my java to 1.4.2_04 deleted my pref. folder and redone, and right clicked and run with, set to win 2000

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sorry updated java to 1.4.2_07

I'm a little confused
Why did you set the run with win 2000.

Both LW and Java should run okay with WindowsXP.

Try updating to JRE 1.5.0_01 if you can.

[Lord of the Rings]

These are just very minor twitches that can sometimes get LW doing what it's supposed to do. These techniques more-so apply to LW 4.2 & earlier but some of these points can still apply. See: Fixes for Limewire