Hi,

I am most grateful to those who have kindly responded to my requests for help. I am now gambling on my Norton Ghost image getting me out of trouble if I mess things up completely!

I have still been unsuccessful in getting a DNS address from Optus but have used what I believe to be correct numbers for Melbourne. I can still get on to the internet, so is this undeniable proof that I have correct numbers here? I am guessing that if I had them wrong I would NOT be able to get online. Is this correct??

Assuming that I am correct, I continued to change my Internet Connections Properties for TCP/IP (so that I now have a static IP address,) and then uninstalled all traces of Java and downloaded and installed JRE 5 Update 12. Please see my attached screenshots.

I have set my router to allow the ports I believe to be right and am attaching a third screen shot showing these.

Can anyone see anything I have wrong as it is still not alooowing me to connect.

Thanks, Roger

I found this...
DNS Numbers
So your DNS numbers look fine..

Now with what I can see with the ports....
I would use the number 64049 for TCP and that number for UDP, you should only use the one number...

When your in Limewire use 64049 for the manual port forward box and the listen number box and select apply...

That should get the wall away..;)

Hi and Thanks again

Time is getting away from me so I will probably not have a chance to try again until tomorrow, but am hopeful that if you think I am on the right track, I will be OK. If not, I might just have to give up!!:confused:

I really appreciate your kind assistance

Thanks, Roger

You can't go wrong if you follow these instructions...;)
Port Forwarding for the Netgear WGR614v5

Hi and Thanks for the encouragement.

I have finally managed to find time to try again and have reset things using the port number 64049 but still cannot get connected.

I attach screen shots showing my Limewire settings, my Router settings, my Java version and my TCP/IP settings.

The one thing I am not sure of is the setting for Server IP Address in my Router settings. Have I got this wrong??

BTW, in case it is a Firewall issue I tried with XP Firewall turned off, and still no luck. What port should be named in XP Firewall for the Exception? 64049 or something different?

If there is anything else you can see, I'd appreciate a word. Thanks! :)

Roger

Hi! Good News!

After my last post I searched a bit further on this forum and found the post from Rupturedinsides (Hope you're better now!) and saw the recommendation to delete the .limewire folder. I did this and now I am connecting!

Thanks for everyones help and the very friendly tone of the correspondence. I great initiation into the forum. :super:

Thanks again