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Old September 15th, 2008
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Hello everyone. I'm a long-time LimeWire user, first-time forum poster. I installed XP sp2 on a new laptop, setup the internet, and installed LimeWire. No connection. Uninstalled LW, then reinstalled. Still nothing. Decided to put it off for a while and installed Suse 10.0 to dual boot on the laptop. Although I've been using LW for years with XP and Suse, I hold Suse in higher regard and thus was certain LW would succeed when I installed it and started it up on Suse 10.0. No suck luck. I proceeded to try every fix in the sticky entitled "If LW Will Not Connect." I've only tried these under Suse.

Suse 10.0, Motorola SURFboard Wireless Cable Modem Gateway SBG900 w/ Firewall enabled, Cable internet w/ Charter Communications, LW 4.18.6, Java 1.6.0_07, got "Your test worked!", BrickWall indicating firewall in LimeWire, UPnP and I'm in the US of A.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
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Do you have two LW's running on same network? If yes, they will need to be listening (& possibly connecting) via different ports. Routers tend to reserve a single port per application per computer.
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Negative. The two OS never run at the same time, so only one instance of LW would ever be open.
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That's not what I meant. As soon as one LW uses the router, it locks that identification into it. I had a problem where i had mac os connecting. Then if I turned it off, turned on Windows on same computer, the port would be unavailable to it.
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I understand. However, before I ever installed Suse, I tried LW on the XP partition with no luck, even after a reinstall. How can I go about seeing if your suggestion might be the problem?
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Try using a different port for the other LW. Since it's probably set to UPnP, you can try putting in the port number & hope it doesn't change, else, set to manual port forward (however that will probably leave the router's nat closed port.) Perhaps safest way is to port foward a port for one, upnp for the other. Just a thought.

Also keep in mind those suggestions you tried, such things as disabling OOB & performance options may just make that much of a difference initially after trying the above with port setting.
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I just attempted all possible configurations of your advice. Still stuck. Thanks for your help, though!
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