listening port numbers?
 

Don't mean to be to stupid on this , however, can anyone tell me if my listening port number is supposed to be the same as 6346 the numbers limewie gave us for our firewalls? Thanks, Tina

We'll see if we can sort this out. Port 6346 is the standard default that is used by the Gnutella network. But other ports can be used. Here's a lit of some others that can be tried: 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 80, 20282, 22817, 443, 34599, 40475. Some others: 8360, 19515, 20285, 22091, 25079, 26394, 33049, 42628.
What you'd do is go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change the listening port. Then press Apply button. Then go to menu bar, File>Disconnect, wait a minute & then File>Connect & give it say about 15 mins. (I'm not sure if you should close & re-open LW when you change ports but it should be ok.)

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)
2. What firewalls you have?
3. How much ram?
4. Hard Disk space available?
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
9. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)?
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
11. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user.
12. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there?
13. Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False?

Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

hey thanks for the reply!! You're wonderful. I actually managed to fix some problems by using advice form here as well. I deleted my file, reconfigured everything, lost all my ongoing searches, but kept my library. However, insteda of having no connection, I was able to get my downloads going again at up to about 40kb/s which is still way way lower than it was afew days ago ( around 100kb/s) but beggars can't be choosers! Thanks, Tina

Good news. Then it seems your isp is not filtering or blocking then. Well perhaps anyway.

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See the following link & follow “ALL� the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help: To continue files downlding (click on link)

I'm having the same problem and I see other people reporting that my isp (Verizon FIOS) is possibly blocking the ports.

I have tried changing both ports and different combinations but it's not working. I have a wireless router but I have my limewire pc as the DMZ so that should make the router transparent from what i understand.

It seems to me if they are just blocking ports I should be able to get around it by changing the ports but I can't.

I've found bearshare to work some without changing anything but not well.

I have windows xp sp2, amd 1.7GHz, 512 ram, nothing funny installed that I know of.

Any suggestions?

Try a connection & listening port number between 49152 - 65535. eg: 64049

did that - didn't work.

Try Phex to see if you have the same problems.