Can't Connect Mac - Help!
 

1. OS version? OS X 10.4.8
2. What firewalls you have? None known....?
3. How much ram? 256MB
4. Hard Disk space available? 42MB
5. Connection type? Airport (Cable/DSL)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? No clue...
7. Where are you trying to connect from? House that is on a school campus
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? LW 4.12.6 Java 1.5.0_06
9. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider)? Do not know...?
10. 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? Safari can’t open the page “http://www3.limewire.com:6346/” because it could not connect to the server “www3.limewire.com”.
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? other computers through a wireless router
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. 1st try on this computer, not first time user on mac
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? yes

1. OSX Firewall settings for Tiger; not that you really need a firewall for mac.
5-6. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=52014 this is the vital step at my guess. As your port 6346 is blocked. You need to either enable UPnP (NAT-PMP) or forward a port.
13. Is due to the presence of an unconfigured firewall ... probably the airport being the issue.

Umm, I tried those suggestions, but still have no connection... So, I don't know what's wrong.
Could I use a proxy to connect to Limewire, so I can bypass the firewall here? And if so, how do I go about doing that?

Ah ... school campus ... yes I did miss that point ... See the graph link here for typical school & school accommodation approaches nowadays: ISP's known to BLOCK or Filter p2p or specifically Limewire & for proxies see this link A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions.

Wow, I'm hopeless. I tried about 20 different proxies, followed the instructions exactly and still NO success! I don't know what's wrong...

At school, proxies are still no absolute guarantee to work. It depends upon what the school has set up to stop p2p programs from connecting to their network.

How about a http proxy. There's various types of proxies & that's one of them. Also using an ip hider/masker 'might' help. :confused: