Can Not Connect

[§treet_§peed]

hows it going guys and gals? I have been using lime wire for about 5 years now. never had any problems what so ever with it. Always ran both windows and norton firewalls. Anyways my current set up is 64 bit windows vista, norton 360 2008 edition, g2wire router/modem. It just stopped connecting about 5 days ago. will not connnect for anything. it never has had a problem with my firewalls until now. now it says its blocked has the little wall infront of the globe. also, im with bellsouth dsl. any help would greatly be appreciated. thanks everyone. if i left anyhting let me know and i will answer the best way possible.

[§treet_§peed]

i have tried numerous things that have read one here. from completely deleting limewire and re-installing. to doing it with the gnutell.net file 3 times. no go. i also did the trick with deleting it form both firewalls then setting it up again. i turned off both firewalls as well and nothing. i've never had this problem before...

[ObscureHITMAN]

Hi dude, we got same problem here but i think i know the solution. But first let me tell ya this, i belive the problem is from our vista thingy, this problem accurd a month ago, my limewire dosent show the network thingy but, when i used other internet connection (i mean usin my laptop in internet cafe) then it started to work, what i did was re-ins it and guess what? it worked, the network connection was great and when i used my home internet connection (my old connection which stoped workin limewire) started workin again. but now after 2 weeks it started again, im not gettin network connection, i mean i have to go back to internet cafe and re-ins and it mite work again. I belive ur usin PC and ehhh idk how u gona fix it tho but ya, try to use other kinda connection. anymore info then try to contact me. speed_mansoor@yahoo.com

[§treet_§peed]

thanks man. i have no idea. its alsways worked up until a few days ago i don't get it. it sucks to cause i have 3 jobs. so not really anytime to go to a free wifi spot around here. it sucks cause i only get to spend a few minutes a day on here and try to get it to work.

[ObscureHITMAN]

ok look, if u get any kinda info about limewire connection thingy then plz let me know, im workin everyday on limewire thingy, whatever info i'll get, i'll be happy to let u know, take care

[§treet_§peed]

hey bro i got it. i gave up with limewire and just got frostwire. works great. let me know and ill email you the setup file.

[skyliner]

In Limewire Links (below) click on (If LW will not connect) and go through these fixes -- Try one fix at a time --- do them in this order:-
1. Check your firewall.
2. Delete/Replace gnutella.net file
3. Delete Preference Folder (otherwise known as the Limewire folder)
4. Update java
5. Change listening port
6. Go through the rest of the fixes.
7. if after all of this your problem remains click on (system details) fill in and post back here

Note: . Using Norton Firewall - If you reinstall LW you may need to reconfigure LW for norton. ie: remove previous firewall rule and re-add.

[§treet_§peed]

Originally Posted by skyliner

In Limewire Links (below) click on (If LW will not connect) and go through these fixes -- Try one fix at a time --- do them in this order:-
1. Check your firewall.
2. Delete/Replace gnutella.net file
3. Delete Preference Folder (otherwise known as the Limewire folder)
4. Update java
5. Change listening port
6. Go through the rest of the fixes.
7. if after all of this your problem remains click on (system details) fill in and post back here

Note: . Using Norton Firewall - If you reinstall LW you may need to reconfigure LW for norton. ie: remove previous firewall rule and re-add.

well i tried all of those. nothing worked. so i just downloaded frostwire and it seems to be working perfect without changing anything. i just added it as an exception on both firewalls and allowed it access to the internet. it works awesome, i just don't understand how it works like that.

[skyliner]

street speed,

well done for finding an alternative -- there are others also -- Phex, Bearshare

[ObscureHITMAN]

thanx, im kinda usin limewire again, it works somtime lol, take care