Yes I completely agree. I paid for PRO, and of course they give no refunds, and it wont work. There is a way to bypass the university port blocks, there's gotta be a way. In my town (JMU Harrisonburg) we have a company called NTC who we pay for internet service, but somehow its registered on the JMU network. An IT guy at JMU said that JMU is specifically blocking ports to prevent limewire from running so that the bandwidth is freed up at the school. Well legally, can they do that? I mean, I pay for ethernet, my checks are made out to 'NTC' not JMU. So, if I am paying for ethernet, am I not paying for my own allocated space? if I cant use the space that I pay for, shouldn't they give me money back? Tell us how we can get around this Hitler style domination, and how can it be legal for them to block what we pay for?

Hellbigtw, before signing the contract you have to read everything. Make sure that it wasn't written in the contract first, 'cause if it is then there's nothing you can do aside from changing ISPs.

rmycanes1L, I have no idea if there is a way to do that or not, but I must tell you that this is not a hacker forum. If you wanna be a hacker or wanna use hacker stuff to circumvent the rules set by the university then post somewhere else please.

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ONLY WORKED FOR A FEW SECS THEN LOST THE CONNECTION :-(

Oh My God!! It Worked!! I have tried everything and after all that just completing that one simple thing worked!! You rock dude!!

deleted all the .limewire profiles for all users and removed the connect on start up - so far so good

Still having firewall trouble...what is going on? Will someone please help me? I am a college student too but my roommates program works. I did everything I was told to do so far but still get the message that a firewall is blocking my connection. PLEASE HELP!

Noelle

Noelle, I speak on behalf of alot of college students that have become aware of the fact that universities are blocking ports, making Limewire inaccessible. My roomates Limewire works, its just a mystery, for some reason, my school allows his puter to connect. There is nothing you can do to connect until Limewire gives us a way of using their LEGAL program on the bandwidth that WE PAY FOR (at least i pay for mine, and did not sign any contract, I pay for service, which is being blocked so that they can have more room for other people). And this is not "hacking" as some have referenced. Limewire is legal is it not? I pay for ethernet service, checks payable not to my university, but to the provider. Therefore Legal program + I pay for my ethernet to a company, and a third party is blocking my access, I think I have a right to find out how to circumnavigate the troublesome 3rd party.

shelbee how did you get it to work? There's lots of people dying to know how to do it. But then it still might not work for everybody.

If some of you know somebody who has got it to work, why not ask them if they can set yours up the identical way, else, ask them for a copy of their preferences files. Buy them a coke in return.

Oh and also, I think that most people on this forum who can't connect are at universities, and are simply having their ports blocked...so its probly not any little things like turning "start when windows starts" off or anything like that. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO UNTIL LIMEWIRE FIGURES OUT HOW TO LET US CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE 3RD PARTY BLOCKER.

I "GIVE" up using Limewire...I have never had a problem before and I use some Zonealarm and have Limewire on "allow". I have tired everything and the beta version and still can't connect. I wonder if it has to do with service pack 2.