"Starting connection" problem..!
 

Can anyone help?
I had the basic version of Limewire for 2 year's, had no problem up til a month ago, it just wouldn't connect, just kept saying connecting..Thought that I had ran out of subscription or something so yesterday I bought the Limewire Pro version 4.12.10. Says that it is behind a firewall and was "starting connection", waited waited, nothing happened. Disabled firewall, tried again, nothing. Uninstalled Limewire and re-installed it, still nothing. Have had the task manager up whilst trying to load and run limewire and absolutely nothing comes up, no activity..except 2 little tiny bumps and that is it...have gone to listening port and tried what it says in faq about doing tcp/udp putting the listening port in for incoming and outgoing..still nothing..(put it back to what it was after)
St1. OS version? (windows xp home edition, windows defender as firewall, avg for virus check.
3. How much ram?480mb
4. Hard Disk space available?48.2 gb
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) dsl broadband
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? D LINK adsl router dsl-502T
7. Where are you trying to connect from (house, appartment complex, school, student accomodation, work, etc.)? From 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. 4.12.10(LW) Java 1.5.0_10
9. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider)? AAPT
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? "your test worked" comes up.
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. No, not sharing.
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. Experienced user...had lw for 2 years
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? Yes there is a blue world behind brick wall.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...1&d=1158099342
14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled?upnp was not enabled, tried that also and have it enabled now. As for port forwarding, no idea..it is set up as per normal through AAPT. Again, LW used to work up til a month ago...nothing has changed except for using skype which I have disabled.

ats...

Here are instructions for port-forwarding, if you want to give that a try:

Port Forwarding for the Dlink DSL-502T

Good Luck :D

Dan

thanks Dan, shall do..

My isp provider won't help out with the port forwarding idea. Apparently it will mess up the modem/router and have to set up broadband over again. They seem to think that it is Limewire that has the problem as it was working fine a month ago...geezzz1 I can't win! Anyone got any other idea's??