Still no connection
 

My computer specs are as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor
Windows XP Media Centre Edtion 2005
1024MB DDR2 533Mhz Memory
250 GB Serial ATA hard drive

No Limewire connection for the last few days. Limewire indicates only 1 out of 5 bars, and firewall in place. However, I made Limewire an exception in my Bullguard security system. The exception was removed then re-added, but still no connection. Currently at a loss as to what to do next. Any help or advice would be most welcome.

Kenny

Can you give this info please?
System details - help us to help you

1) windows XP media centre edition version 2002
2) Bullguard 7 Firewall (turned on), & Windows Firewall (turned off)
3) 1,024.00MB RAM 4) 1.96 GB available Hard Disk space
5) Broadband 6) ADSL modem 7) Connecting from house 8) Limewire 4.12.6 (trial version) 9) Homechoice digital home network 10) Page read 'Your test worked' 11) No 12) New problem with fairly new user
13) For several days since problem started there was a brickwall. Now brickwall presence seems to be intermittent. At this moment, there is no brickwall but connection is very slow (connecting to 1 host @ 6 KB/s)

Homechoice is apparently owned by Tiscali.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiscali

Use the forum search to look for Tiscali & you'll see just how many customers are having problems at the moment:( Your slow speed could indicate that your bandwidth is being shaped. See points 1.4 & 1.5 in the AUP
http://www.homechoice.co.uk/legal/usage.html

If your intermittent connection is due to your ISP, there might not be much we can do. You could try changing ports within tools > options > advanced > firewall config. Change the listening port to 80 or 64049 & see if that helps.

What's the brand & model of your modem? It could have it's own internal firewall. If this is the case & it supports UPnP, enable it within the modem & then use the UPnP option on that same LW firewall config page.
Or port forwarding could be an option. If you can find your modem on the list here
http://www.portforward.com/english/r...outerindex.htm
there'll be a guide for port forwarding. Don't forget that LW's listening port, any specific port number allowed thru a software firewall & any port forwarded thru a device must be the same number;)