ok so i am new to limewire and am getting full connection BUT, there is still a brick wall in front of the globe. I have read through past threads and i have done everything i can to disable firewalls. I have XP and Norton that i know of both wich i have configured.............

Can someone help please???????

Don't run the XP firewall & Norton firewall together. Disable the XP one & reconfigure Norton to allow LW (remove all the LW rules & start again from scratch)

If that doesn't help, could we please have some more details??
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1. OS version xp
2. what firewall Norton and XP but both disabled
3. RAM 512
4. Hard disk availiable ah 34.9GB free???
5. Connection Broadband
6. Modem Netcomm plus4
7. Connecting from house
8. Versions LW 4.14.8 Java 1.6.0_02
ISP is Westnet
test did work
no sharing
see the brick wall
security prog is Norton
in Australia


Thanks

Your Netcomm's probably got an internal firewall. What model is it (there's NB1300plus4, NB5plus4, NB6Plus4W)??

Have a look at the router list here. Find your model, choose LW from the list of programs & you'll find instructions for port forwarding...that fixed mine
PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

Make sure to set up a static IP address first, else port forwarding won't work. You'll find links for that within those p/f instructions.
LW's listening port, port in the 'manual port forward' box & port forwarded should be the same number

Did you disable the XP firewall & reconfigure Norton?

its an NB1300plus4. I have done the above and logged into my account and it says that i dont have a static ip address do i want to buy one. do i have to do this for LW to work??? it also has a list of ports that my nettcomm modem will block and the port i was using 6346 is not mentioned. does this help at all??? does this even make sense?
i have definately config norton firewall to limewire and have even disabled norton for a while to see if this changes anything but still nothing????

My old modem was an NB1300 so there's definitely a firewall there.

You don't have to buy a static IP address...it's not something you have to get from Westnet. You can just set one up yourself for your computer. These are the static IP instructions.
PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

Have a look through those & you'll see what you have to do. Print them out if you think it'll help (I did).

do you know if norton ghost contains a firewall that might be causing this??

I don't use Norton, but AFAIK Ghost doesn't have a firewall...it's just for backing up/restoring. Were there any changes in hardware or software (updating, upgrading, install new software) around the time that you started seeing the firewall?

If there's no firewall coming from software, I'd still be looking at the modem for the source of the firewall.

Have you tried resetting the modem (stick a paper clip/pen into the little hole at the back of the modem...the manual explains this more)? This would reset things back to factory defaults, so you'd have to go right back through & set up your Westnet connection again & also re-do port forwarding.

Or maybe somebody else here has some more ideas???