How are you all?

Below are my system details. Can anybody help me? I have LW withdrawal!

1. Windows XP 2002
2. Windows Firewall
3. 160 GHZ Intel Pentium
4. 496 MB of RAM.
5. Broadband
6. It’s a Speedtouch Wireless Router
7. I am trying to connect from an apartment.
8. LimeWire (LW) = 4.14.10 & Java = 1.6.0. 02
9. BE is my ISP
10. My PC passed the test!
11. I don’t share the connection with anyone. I have one PC and one secure connection.
12. This is my second time with LW Pro. The first time I did have problems but I cannot for the life of me remember how I resolved it.
13. There is a small firewall over the world icon.
14. I think it is UPnP enabled?
15. Symantec Anti-virus ( this appears not to have a firewall, it detects virus )
16. I live in London.

Anthony

Hi antgal23,

Make sure that the XP firewall's allowing LW.
User Cant Connect - LimeWire

Next, delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 here & also point 2 if you've used older versions of LW in the past (there could be a folder in either location).
Fixes for LimeWire
This will change all of your settings within options, you'll have to go back through afterwards & reset things. If you're not sure of your settings, go through LW's tools > options & write them all down, so that you can reset things later.

Some people have had connection problems with the Java version that you have. You can either try updating to the latest version here (I have this one & LW's working fine): Java SE Downloads
or try this older version, which has worked well for lots of people: Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11
Whichever Java version you use, download the JRE offline installer & remove any other Java versions before installing another one.

What's the model of your Speedtouch (it may have it's own firewall)?

hi

my version of speedtouch is SSID:B98774

Hi Birdy,

You told me to delete LWs folder in Preferences but where is Preferences?

tried all the fixes but no joy. Pretty sure Ifollowed all the steps but feck all progress.

any more tips mate?

Did you find the preferences folder? Remember that LW has to be completely closed before deleting that folder. Did you look for a folder in the old location (C:\Documents and Settings\your username\.limewire) as well? If you deleted the prefs folder properly, all of your LW options would've reverted back to default


Have another look on the Speedtouch for a model number...something like 580, 545, 510 etc. Once you've found the model, go to this page & find your router model.
PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall
Then choose LimeWire from the program list...then you'll find instructions for port forwarding. Give that a try. Don't forget to set up a static IP address first (there's info about static IP within the port forwarding instructions).

LW's listening port, port in the 'manual port forward' box & port forwarded within the router should all be the same number.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/183932-post4.html (click blue link) for Windows XP & earlier.