Optus satellite

I have installed LimeWire Pro onto a computer running windows XP SP2. I also Norton AntiVirus (Ver 7.61) and Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1. I have spent hours on the forum and have configured ports, forced proxys, Made exceptions in the firewall etc. We did connect for a short period on the free version of LimeWire and managed to download a couple of songs on very slow speed but since then have had not luck. We are connected to the internet via Optus satellite with SkyEdge modem. Can you help.

Hi goingcrazy,

Have you done the port 6346 test (to see if port 6346 is blocked)? Have a read through this thread, there's a bit of satellite info plus a link to doing the test:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...274#post189274

I've never heard of Optus blocking or filtering p2p, but it might be worth calling them to make sure

Thanks for your reply. The test worked. We ended up getting fair connectivity last night and tried to download five songs. The speed varied up to 12 kb/s but LW kept disconnecting. It took about an hour and a half to reconnect about 3 times to download 4 of them and we gave up on the fifth. Is there any way to tell if we have a second firewall? I have tried connecting with the windows XP firewall turned off but it is no better than with it on. A firewall symbol comes up in the left window and also when I looked in tools-Options-bug report under : "Recieved incoming this session" there was a false reading.