I haven't been able to connect with Limewire for close to a month now, and I was going back through all the potentially useful suggestions I could find to see if any would help me. I'm currently working (again) on replacing my gnutella.net file, but it doesn't seem to download properly. I tried both links provided in birdy's sticky thread, but each one ends up as an MPEG-1 Video file, with a QuickTime icon visible. Prior to this connection difficulty, I had trouble connecting and so replaced my gnutella.net file then--that time it worked fine, the file looked like a blank page as it should, and I was able to connect once again. I don't understand why the download window appears saying I'm going to download a binary file yet it ends up being a video file. Can anyone help with this oddity?

I had the same problem last week:
my daughter lost her connection with LW
so she tried to download a new gnutella.net file
from here it came out like this :-
http://node02.hewson.cns.ufl.edu:8080/pwc.cgi
http://cache.kicks-***.net:8000/
http://kisama.ath.cx:8080/
http://crab2.dyndns.org:30002/gwc/
http://overbeer.ghostwhitecrab.de/
http://starscream.dynalias.com/
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http://gwcrab.sarcastro.com:8001/
http://gwc.jooz.net:8010/gwc/
http://krill.shacknet.nu:20095/gwc
secondary.udp-host-cache.com:9999,,1188924860750,,,en,0
cache.kicks-***.net:8000,,1188924860640,,,en,1
uhc2.limewire.com:20181,,1188924860687,,,en,1
kisama.ath.cx:8080,,1188924860656,,,en,1
uhc1.frostwire.com:9000,,1188924860875,,,en,1
uhc3.limewire.com:51180,,1188924860671,,,en,0
krill.shacknet.nu:20095,,1188924860765,,,en,0
etc etc etc

so I tried downloading from gnutella.net which
downloaded to her desktop but as a text file --
I tried several times from both but no good --
I fixed the problem by copying the gnutella.net file
from my copy of LW on my computer on to a USB
stick and downloaded it to my daughters laptop --
deleted her gnutella.net file and inserted mine and it Connected

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Limewire links: (If LW 5 will not connect) (If LW 4 will not connect)(system details) (LW Clean Reinstallation Instructions) (setting up your firewall to accept LW)

LW links are changed at times to match the current problems.

Glad you were able to find a way around the problem, but I can't do that unfortunately--I have no good copy of the gnutella.net file to work with. I need a way to download it as a binary file and have it stay a binary file. Anyone else?

try downloading a gnutela.net file now -- it seems to be working OK

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Limewire links: (If LW 5 will not connect) (If LW 4 will not connect)(system details) (LW Clean Reinstallation Instructions) (setting up your firewall to accept LW)

LW links are changed at times to match the current problems.

Tried that link, but I still have it saved as a video file when the download is complete. Anyone know how to stop this from happening (or even why it's happening)?

me too, I just downloaded from gnutella.net and it solved my problem. And ... check your file associations. Could your .net files be associated with QT?

I do not have .net files associated with QuickTime; regardless, I don't understand how that could affect the way a file is downloaded--doesn't it just pertain to how a file is opened/read once it's been saved?

Every time I have saved a gnutella.net file it ends up being listed as an MPEG-1 Video with a Quicktime logo showing on the icon. And I tried four or five different links, multiple times. In the end, I had to use a Windows machine to download a good copy and then transfer it to my machine (a Mac). But, about two months ago when I had difficulty connecting and tried this replacing gnutella.net option, I successfully downloaded the file and got Limewire up and running no problem. So I just don't get what's going on that it won't properly save the gnutella.net file as a binary file.