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!

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.

Negative. The two OS never run at the same time, so only one instance of LW would ever be open.

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.

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?

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.

I just attempted all possible configurations of your advice. Still stuck. Thanks for your help, though!