I've had limewire for about a year on my laptop with no problems. But now when i try to connect it wont. The first green bar on the connection indicator lights and indicates that it is attempting to connect but it will never fully connect. I cannot download anything.
I have windows xp and use zone alarm firewall (limewire is enabled), my xp firewall is turned off.

Skitz. U.K

Have you contacted your ISP and ask them if they have started blocking or shaping P2P traffic.

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Phoned my ISP and p2p traffic is ok.

if you have optimum online then thats your problem. ool has been blocking ports that p2p program use. the only people on OOL that are not affected by this are the Optimum Online Boost users. im not to sure if there are any other ISP that are blocking limewire (gnutella network). but if they are the only isps i know that are doing this are mainly CABLE internet providers.

Can you give us a total description 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? ( AOL/MSN/Comcast/Tiscal)
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
11. 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?
These details are vital if you want us to find out what your connection problem is.

* 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. http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml

12. Do This test, Is the result True/False?
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...757#post103757 Is the result True/False

13. Do a speed test post the results here.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

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Later Grandpa

1. windows xp
2. zone alarm (on) & windows xp (off) firewalls
3. 256k
4. 3.71GB available
5. i think its cable/dsl (broadband 1meg)
6. Im unsure what a router is, but I think I use my laptops in built modem
7. connecting from home
8. Lw 4.9.37 java 1.5.0_06
9. ISP is ask4
10. no
11. the test worked
12. false
13. download speed is 945kbps, upload is 2540kbps. i am in the uk so I used the newyork test.

cheers

ahhhh ok you in the UK. well.. can you can connect to anytime of the day?
in other words is there certain time of the day that you only try to connect to lime wire. i hear the traffic in the UK is limited at certain times of the day there. cause of the demand in bandwidth there

Does your computer hook up to the Internet straight from the wall. Or does it go through a modem/router first.

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i connect straight to the wall.

i cant connect at any time of the day.

could you please help here
My ISP are unwilling to give me any information as to whether they have started blocking or shaping p2p traffic. Which is Virgin by the way.
When I start Lime wire I also get a secondary security alert from Norton which states that a remote address is attempting access to my computer I don't know if this is blocking my Limewire connection. I also get a wall behind the blue world in the bottom left. but even if I turn off all my security alerts its still there
any ideas on how I can get limewire back