HTTP proxy blocks P2P
 

I have installed Limewire on one computer that is on the local LAN (address 10.0.0.100). To connect to Internet from this computer, one must setup every Internet application to use HTTP proxy at 10.0.0.1:3128. The proxy is Squid v2.5 (http://www.squid-cache.org/) and I know its external IP (say, 100.101.102.103). The following things work: browsers, FTP clients (both active and passive modes) and ICQ. I have tested a couple of P2P clients (Limewire and eMule) and neither works. :(

Here are my settings for Limewire: proxy options HTTP proxy 10.0.0.1 port 3128, firewall config listen on port 3128, manual port forward 3128. The Connections tab shows the list of UPs, but all of them timeout. Anybody has an idea or is it totally hopeless?

These might be worth a look at:

1. A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions.

2. http proxies

3. A Successful http Proxy Solution

4. Another Insight proxy solution

Some other potential ports to use: 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 80, 20282, 22817, 443, 34599, 40475.

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Thank you very much! The solution seems to be http tunnel. What it does: there will be three proxy servers. The first one is to be installed on the local computer, it makes all connections to be going to a certain remote host on port 80. The second proxy server is on my LAN, which permits such connections. Finally, the remote host acts as a third proxy server and forwards the connections to the actual destinations.

The remote proxy server has to be provided and there is one such service available:
http://www.your-freedom.net/
I will try it and will let you know. It is probably going to be very slow, but anyway...

Ok, it works, although I had to configure YF manually rather than to use the wizard. (I had to disallow the use of DNS.) But the website has a pretty good FAQ, so it wasn't too hard. The connection is 64 kbps.

Fantastic news. The speeds you quoted, is that 68 kbps or 68 KB/s? There's a major difference. kbps is bits per second, & KB/s is bytes per second. Divide 8 into kbps to give KB/s which is what LW uses. I suspect you're actually getting KB/s right?

It is 64 kbit/s = 8 kB/s for a free account, like ISDN. Paid account would give me much larger bandwidth, indeed. Their current rates are 32 kB/s for ˆ30/year, 512 kB/s for ˆ95/year and unlimited bandwidth for ˆ200/year. Anyway, it works just fine even with the free account.

just wondering what the yf settings where because im using it now bitcommet works but not limewire. your freedom website followed instructions but cant figure out this part of the instructions wtf

" Router configuration is very important for getting Limewire to work properly with Your-Freedom and for obtaining a fast connection. Select the 'Manual port forward' radio button. Then configure both ports (inbound port and router port) to one of the YF port numbers assigned to you (check out the Profile panel in the YF client when you are connected -- TotalFreedom only). If you haven't got any ports assigned choose "do nothing". Then, if you have ports assigned, configure a server port forward in the YF client's ports panel: use the same port number as in Limewire for both server port and local port, and set the host to "localhost". "