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December 7th, 2006
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 firewall again!!!! hi new to the forum so hi, i have been using bt home hub for a few months now and had it configured to work with lw pro and had no problems but....i moved house and now the firewall (wall in front of globe) is back again. is this because i moved? im a bit of a novice when it comes to ports and connections and actually configured bt the first time by luck lol so any plain english help would be great thanks moony0707  |
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December 7th, 2006
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| 1. Make sure you configured XP firewall to enable LW full access: (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link) 2. And a few more details will help us: System details - help us to help you (click on link) |
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December 7th, 2006
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| my windows firewall is configured to accept limewire also it is turned off anyway, i have went into my bt homehub settings and as far as i can tell i have allowed limewire there too, i have read other threads that say bt stop p2p but like i said earlier it worked fine untill i moved home. anyway here is the other info you wanted 1. windows xp home 2. none active (windows disabled)( cant disable homehub firewall but lw alloawed) 3. 512 4. 44gb 5. broadband 6. bt homehub option3 7. home 8. lw 4.12.6 java 1.5.0_09 9. bt 10. your test worked 11. no 12. new problem 13. yes |
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December 7th, 2006
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| bt may shape or block regionally or else, detected high bandwidth usage with LW & then applied the brakes. I don't know anything about the 'bt homehub option3', do you have a link to a page that describes what it is? Try this ... go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change listening port to one between 49152 - 65535. A good one to try is 64049. Then close LW, re-open & see if it makes any difference. If that doesn't work, then try deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire (sample image included at bottom of page.) & reset your options next time you restart LW. That includes days to keep incomplete downlds from 7 days to a large number. |
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December 7th, 2006
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| i set the port to 64049 and still got the wall icon i can connect to limewire and download but wanted to know if i could get higher speeds without the firewall at the moment im getting approx 60KB/s my isp d/l speed is about 3.5MB the link for the bt home hub is http://www.bt.com/broadband/bb_info....&obsOID=112066 hope that link works :S if not just google bt you can find the homehub option 3 by clicking "at home" on that site hope that helps moony0707 |
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December 7th, 2006
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| I've got the link open & will take a closer look in a minute. But 1st, remember that ISP's quote internet speeds in bps (bits per second) whereas LW quotes speeds in KB/S which is (bytes per second.) Multiply 60 KB/s x 8 & it will give you bps. To be sure of your speed, without LW open do a speed test; Choose nearest location for a speed test & only have your browser open: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/speedtest/. (BTW 60 KB/s is still very good as downld speeds generally depend upon your sources & what speeds they are offering or have available.)  Speeds offered by ISP's usually lose speed depending on distance from supplier/telephone exchange, & also in-house overheads such as router/modem. Normally a 15-25% overhead loss is expected. Also download a magnet link from the following link & tell us what happens re: connecting & speed: http://www.magnetmix.com/video.shtml |
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December 7th, 2006
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| That option has Norton Firewall. Are you able to access Norton firewall at all? My guess is this might be where the firewall is coming from. It lists # Norton AntiVirus™ & # Norton Personal Firewall™. If you are able to access NIS, then see Configuring Norton Internet Security * Be aware you have a 40 GB/mth limit, so if you go over that I presume they will slap a shaper upon you until the end of the monthly period. It doesn't actually say there what speed they slow you down to or whether they charge you more. |
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December 7th, 2006
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| norton came as an extra installation option and i didnt install it (dont like it) ive done speed tests on many sites and i get around 3.5meg bt said i should be getting 6.5 so so im guessing the 3.5 is after all the things about the exchange and router and everything else has been taken into account, im thinking i have a prety good download speed to but like everything else we want more lol so i thought id find that out and thought it strange that before my house move i didnt get the firewall and now i do and was wondering if it was something to do with moving, so if i have to live with it then i will as long as i can download and im getting good enough speeds i will be happy (not really i want more)  |
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December 7th, 2006
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| Don't forget line speed is an issue also. My ISP offers 20 Mbps but my local line speed from the exchange was tested at 4.4 Mbps. lol  Oh you forgot to do the magnet file test. I'm not sure about where the firewall is coming from then. You might also be interested in this http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools |
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