Lanita, could you please post your system details. See Link below

System details - help us to help you (click on blue link)

i will as soon as my husband gets through with the water heater.......love to see that texas sign....living in the wilds of montana.....HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!! give me an hour or so........this is a clean system.....with only my updates, nortons antivirus and zone alarm and limewire........Skyliner suggested reconfiguring Nortons....But I forgot to tell him, that we redid my system, didn't put any updates, no firewall no nortons or programs in, just limewire and it still wouldn't connect.....thanks for helping me......

1. OS version? XP PRO

2. What firewalls you have? Zone Alarm

3. How much ram?1 gig

4. Hard Disk space available? 80 and 200

5. Connection type? DSL

6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? Modem-Inetel 21041 Ethernet Adapter.....Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router w/ 4 Port Switch

7. Where are you trying to connect from: home

8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? 4.14.10 java-1.6.0_03

9. Who is your ISP: 3 Rivers

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? It says test works

11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? My Husband and i are on the same router...but never had any problems before. He can connect but i can't

12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user-Experienced user and new problem

13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? yes i do....have always seen it and it connected

14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled? It's UPnP enable...the other i don't know how to check

15. What security programs are you using (antivirus etc)? Nortons System Works 2003 and ZoneAlarm

16. What country are you living in? USA

Try this
 

I had pretty much the same problem as listed above. While using the same os and limewire 4.14.12 pro i am using eset smart security 3.

Method described below looks long winded but is infact very straight forward.

Try uninstalling limewire, and removing all traces of left over data .i.e

c:\program files\limewire

C:\Documents and Settings\"user"\Application Data\LimeWire

Or hit start, search and type in "limewire." Delete everything containing "limewire." (But not the setup file if it is the latest version)

Also remove the settings associated with limewire from your firewall.

Then go to Start, Run, and type in regedit.

Find and expand "HKEY_CURRENT_USER", Then look for "software" and expand also.

Seek the entry "Limewire" and delete.

Now locate "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" expand, look for "software" and again expand. Seek the "Limewire" entry and delete also.

Once completed restart system.

Now check all network settings are correct. (I.e. you are able to connect to the internet and other applications can access the internet also.)

Also make sure latest java version is installed. Obtain from java.com: Hot Games, Cool Apps

Obtain latest limewire setup file 4.14.12 and install limewire with your preferred settings, and allowing traffic when prompted by the firewall. You may get a series of more than one prompt.

Upon starting if the problem still persists, which is more than likely, in limewire click "Tools" then "Options."

Find the entry "Advanced" expand, and select "Performance."

Three tick boxes should be visible named

"Disable Ultrapeer Capabilities"

"Disable Mojito DHT Capabilities"

"Disable TLS Capabilities"

Tick all three boxes and click "Apply."

At this point you may be prompted by your firewall to allow inbound traffic for the application "limewire." If so then allow.

Now you may witness a change in the connection status.

If not restart the application and untick the three boxes as mentioned above, "apply" changes and restart application.

Now upon excution of Limewire, fingers crossed, you should be able to connect.

Hope this helps.

Correction
 

When ticking the boxes and applying the changes it simply writes the new information to the appropriate settings file, which infact is most likely causing a conflict, hence not being able to connect.

If Limewire does finally connect and you see a change in the connection status at the bottom left of the application, it is important still, to untick the three boxes described, once they have been ticked. (If this makes sense.)

In other words, tick, "apply," now even if connection status changes untick and "apply."

i read your post about renaming guntella net.net file - Do you know anything about mac's bc I cannot do your fix.
the thing you said to download...is it suppose to be a movie? also i cannot modify the limewire folder. any help for me?

i unclick and still nothing.......fixing to put in the new antivirus

the new anti-virus and firewall program didn't make any difference......i'll have my husband check the router sometime this week-end.........

hi twopeazinapod :) Can you supply us with some more details: System details - help us to help you (click on blue link). Hopefully we can find out what your problem is. In the meantime, try these things:
1. Close LW down, then delete the LW preferences folder; instructions here Deleting LW Preferences folder in OSX.

2. (a) Problems with the search, __ (b) Hostiles List

3. Go to LW's options/Preferences (mac keyboard shortcut: ⌘ ,) & select Connection tab & set to not connect at start up. Close LW, re-open, leave it to load & settle for 5-10 mins & then go to File menu -> Connect.

one question, before we check the router.....my husband and i are on the same router, he can connect but i can't.....does that make a difference?

Well it shouldnt do but however not everything works flawlessly. UPnP does not always work as it should and i have found this to be the case many times when embracing this protocol using different applications.

I recall this problem sharing a router with a friend while both running DC++ using the UPnP protocol. It worked for a while but upon restarting the application i found his worked and mine didnt. Or sometimes the other way around.

Best thing to do would be to manually forward ports on your router. Once it is setup correctly, it is pretty much guaranteed to work as the network traffic is assigned to specific ports.

Where as with UPnP the router selects the ports for the traffic to flow and therefore is a small probability for any inconsistencies, heavily depending on the router's firmware.

Also firmware updates are essential.

O.k. We did the router thing....still nothing.....I look Port Forward that ya'll posted my Linksys wasn't there the serial number to mine is:C2130D501116....

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

I paid for the limewire pro, and got it to install, but I can't get it to connect. I turned off my firewall, but it still says that it is enabling connection. It never gets past the one bar. I feel like I wasted my money. Can someone help me?:mad:

i bought limewire pro back in january and loved it.....i redid my system and now nothing......we've tried everyting....good luck to you....

hubby just told me that he will manually put my IP into the router instead of having it find it automatically(ms?)

throw away modem routers!!!!

usb modems rules!!!!

~sighs~ didn't work

When I download the .net.net thing how should it be saved as? When I save it its saves as a Firefox file. how do i change this

See Birdy's Thread Here. This should explain everything.

If LW Will Not Connect.

nothing
 

anymore suggestions??? i'm getting very frustrated here.....

this is just werid. I spend money on getting the pro version and it wouldn't work on my pc. I had to come and research all over the internet to find why it wasn't working. I turned up on this forum and downloaded a file and replaced the one that limewire came with and that fixed my problem. Thanks guys! And limewire fix your bugs!

lol that was one of my suggestions in a PM I was in middle of sending. Good to hear you solved your problem. :)

Thanks Big time Digdeep. I was able to use the basic limewire until a few weeks ago, so I purchased Limewore Pro today to see if it would fix the problem, but it didn't. I called my ISP Verizon to see if they were blocking Gnutella and/or using a proxy..they said no. I went an added a port setting in my router and it didn't work. YOU ARE THE MAN!! My buddy found your post and it worked for me. THANKS AGAIN..

the trick is here

try this and limewire will work for sure...

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