I've heard of others both having problem with Clearwire Broadband & also with NextNet devices used elsewhere. AFAIK all or almost all wireless devices have internal NAT firewalls.

jay173's advice is good. Go for a very high port. 49152 - 65535 are usually the best if there's any doubt about ISP blocking of ports. A good one to try is port 64049. ie: go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change the listening port. If still no good, then try changing the connection port also.

If you speak spanish then see http://forum.emule-project.net/lofiv...p/t109149.html
If you don't speak spanish, then see a note in english near the bottom of that link page. This was all I could find when I googled your device model number.

BTW jay173, that port 3045 is officially dedicated to ResponseNet. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers & also http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=24523

It really depends upon how an ISP is blocking p2p. They use many techniques. It may include blocking of ports, it may include special programs that detect p2p programs & stop them in their tracks, or they may dedicate them to a lower priority bandwidth whereby they get slower speeds; aka bandwidth shaping. Proxies may 'sometimes' prove successful in cases where an isp is blocking.

I am not too hot at spanish. Could someone step me through how and where i have to change these port settings? I really am not too sure what i am doing...

Hi NeilJ,
Like LOTR said, people have problems with Clearwire:( Here's some info I found for somebody else, have a read. It's a pretty long thread!
http://www.irishisptest.com/forum/cl...broadband.html

(if you're going to change ports, you should also change the port number allowed through your XP firewall. All ports must be the same number!)

okay....I know what to do to change the port number in my ms firewall. but where do i have to change ports within limewire itself?

:)

So here is the situation now:

Limewire listening port: set to 64049
Router config. Manual port forwarding - set to 64049 (i also tried use UpNp)

Windows firewall:

Advanced settings for local area connection set to:

Gnutella service (check box selected)

internal and external ports both set to 64049 (for both protocols)

The only other thing, is that the IP stated in the limewire connection help doesnt seem to show up after i save. i.e. - "127.0.0.1"

It seems to default to the name of mhy laptop instead.

Any thoughts...or have we exhausted all options at this stage.

Thanks for evcerything so far....i would just love to get one over on my provider now.....

Have a look at the 2 links in this post
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...72&postcount=2

I don't have a clue about proxies:o but maybe someone else can be of more help!!
Good luck with it!

Here's some extra explanations for setting up XP firewall (don't know if they'll be of help but worth looking at): (i) Settings for XP Firewall, & also (ii) Setting Up WinXP Pro FireWall

thanks for all the help but i still cant crack this problem...looks like my download days are over before they even got the chance to begin.

very disappointing.

NeilJ