I have tried everything for several weeks now to try and get my limewire to connect and nothing seems to help. It worked fine for several years until about 2 weeks ago. I have called my ISP and confirmed that they are not blocking it, In fact the tech I spoke said he used it himself at home. I have forwarded all ports with my router. I even turned off all firewalls and antivirus programs and connected my laptop directly to the internet (bypassing the router) and it still would not connect. What could the problem be? Could it be a java problem, I have the latest version. I have completely unistalled and re-installed limewire several limes to no avail. Any suggesstions appreciated.

Did you check whether the manual forwarded port is the same number as the listening port? (LW>Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewall)
Did you also add the necessary numbers at your router website?

Maybe deleteing the LW preference folder for a start will have an effect. Read here on how to do this (Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire)
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

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Yes I have done all of that, and nothing seems to fix it.

Do you by any chance have any old installers.

You could try reverting back to an old version to see if it helps

No I don't, But the problem first occured with the old version of PRO that I had. So I uninstalled it and installed the new basic version. But that didn't change anything.

Could you tell us what settings and numbers you use in Limewire

Tools>options>Advanced>Firewall Config

and also if you get no connect at all. (Look at your connections) do you see UltraPeers trying to connect nut changing all the time or do you see nothing at all.

I suspect your ISP as well, but the thing that throws me abit is what you said above about the ISP tech using Limewire with no problems.

Maybe I am just naive in thinking that your ISP wouldn't flat out lie to you. I must admit that the more this thread goes on, the more I think that's the case here, because you seem to know your way around a computer.

There is one more thing to consider here. Before Limewire stopped working, were you by any chance doing some heavy down/uploading, or what your ISP might consider heavy. ISP's have no problem blocking single users for what they see as extensive use. Some also concentrate more on uploading than downloading, so if you were sharing at full speed 24/7 then that might just be the case.

Either that or the tech support is just really dumb. I want to switch to a new ISP but the only cable internet provider in my area will not let you subscibe to their internet without subscribing to their cable TV also. And since I have Dish that is not an option. And all the DSL servers in my area say you have to subscribe to their telephone service. So I am stuck with who I have. Another thing that I forgot to mention is that my uncle who also has the same ISP started having this same problem the same time I did. I told this to my ISP when I contacted them, but they still insisted that it could be on their end.

Try calling them again. Be sure to keep pushing for answers, Don't let them sweettalk you and make sure to let them know that you know exactly what you have tried. Be as technically savvy as possible when explaining, then you will almost certainly get an answer, or maybe even some advice on how to get around the problem. Keep google handy while you do it just incase they try to confuse you with some internet packet filtering blah blah blah etc. mumble jumble. And write down anything that you might use against them later if you get stuck :wink:

I did that once btw The tech I spoke to had to redirect me to the same tech I had spoken to before

This was torrent and router related BTW not Limewire

Well, I would but my ISP sucks. They have no tech support available on the weekends. But I did write them an E-mail (which they will get monday) explaining what all I have tried and that I have narrowed the problem down to being on their end not mine. Hopefully they will dig a little deeper and figure something out. I also told them that if I cannot get this problem fixed soon I will switch back to my old cable Internet provider, which would suck cause I would have to pay an extra 10-15 dollars for basic cable TV also which I would never even watch. But I guess it would be worth it if I could get limewire back.