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... Could my school be blocking my access to Limewire?
Unfortunately yes. There's p2p filter programs out there which many/most schools now use to block or filter the speeds of p2p sharing programs. p2p sharing uses up a lot of bandwidth which the school pays a lot of money for. Here's an example of Gnutella filtering by a university, but this one applies to speeds: Bandwidth Shaper Sample (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing.

Other ways to find out are to try different ports to connect through (though it appears port 6346 isn't being blocked): 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 80, 20282, 22817, 443, 34599, 40475. ie: Go to LW's menu bar Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change the listening port from 6346 to one of the above. I'm not sure but you may need to relaunch LW. Or at least apply it, go to menu bar, Select File>disconnect, wait a minute, then File>Connect. Give each one at least 15 mins to attempt to connect.

Another alternative is to try another gnutella client. eg: Bearshare lite, Phex, etc.
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1. OS version? (Eg: Windows 98) Windows XP
2. What firewalls you have? Windows
3. How much ram? 1.00 GB
4. Hard Disk space available? 53.2 GB
5. Connection type? (Eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) cable
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? Motorola SB5120
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)? home
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version. 4.9.37 LW 1.5.0_04 Java
9. Who is your ISP provider? ( AOL/MSN/Comcast/Tiscal) Cox
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. No
11. 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? It worked.
These details are vital if you want us to find out what your connection problem is.

* Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other. Yes.

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml

12. Do This test, Is the result True/False? False
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showt...3757#post103757 Is the result True/False

13. Do a speed test post the results here. 4039 kbps download
495 kbps upload

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
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Unfortunately Cox is one of the ISP known to block or filter P2P networks. The link below might be of help.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=33712
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I finally got connected by opening up the ports listed in one of the forums! However, NOW all the music downloads are coming up with the message "need more sources" and the LW icon on the top right of the screen doesn't move. What do I do now?????
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Try highlighting the files one at a time and click resume that should start a search for the file if LimeWire can find any sources it should start downloading. Only do 1 or 2 at a time if you do to many at once it could cause your connection to become unstable
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Things are finally working! thanks.
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1 windows xp he
2 windows
3 512
4 61gig left 80 total
5 quest dsl 256k lan
6 quest dsl modem with wireless gateway gt701-wg
7 home
8 (4.9.37 for limewire) (2.0 for java)
9 qwest
10 yes the test worked is it supposed to say "port 6346 check to see if blocked"
11 yes i configured my firewall to allow full access to limewire
12 its false
13 214kbps for the download 213kbps for the upload

i hope this gives you all you need to know...
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Test #10 says your port is blocked it is probably your wireless router. The link below is the page you need to start on for your router you will need to setup a static IP address first just follow the instructions.


http://portforward.com/english/route...y/Limewire.htm

If you get confused you can go to the link below it will start you at the beginning.


http://portforward.com/default.htm
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Could the reason I can't connect to Limewire have anything to do with the fact that I am connected through Airport Extreme and Airport Express routers? I've done everything else thats been suggested and nothing seems to correct the problem. Any thoughts?
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