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I really hope someone can help me.

I've downloaded Limewire on my home computer and its working brilliantly, but it just won't work on my laptop.

I've tried loads of the fixes from the FAQs, help, and this forum but nothing is working.

I have AOL but the firewall is disabled.

I have XP but I have put Limewire as an exception to the firewall.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks :)

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. 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?
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.

1. 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? it says that :)

2. What firewalls you have? the inbuilt XP one

3. How much ram? 1.60 GHz 504 MB

4. Hard Disk space available? 17.6 GB (I think I did this right?)

5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) broadband

6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? I dont know, sorry..

7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)? my laptop at uni

8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
LW 4.9.37 and Java 1.5.0_05

9. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)?AOL

10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. I dont think so

11. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. my first try



Sorry I dont have all the answers. Thanks for replying :)

I suspect that might be the problem. Most schools & uni's block or filter p2p sharing nowadays. Here's an example of how a p2p bandwidth shaper can work against Gnutella: Bandwidth Shaper Sample (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing. And here's an example to a program that can shape/filter or block p2p programs: http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp
http://www.ipp2p.org/docu_en.html

To check this out for sure. Try another gnutella program to see if it can connect (there's lots of gnutella programs catered for on this forum.)

Last resort would be A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions. Which is using Proxies. But you need to persist with proxies as many no.'s might need to be tried before one works.

Hm, thats probably right. Oh well. I'll have to just make do with having it at home. Thanks for your help!