major annoyance

[PinkFloydFM4]

I have a Dell E310 with Windows XP, with broadband internet from my university. My limewire is version 4.12.6, and the university says that they dont have routers, just mini-hubs and that they dont have firewalls of their own. In the summer at home my limewire worked fine, but once i got to school the brick wall icon comes up saying that limewire has detected a firewall. so all my downloads go like 5 Kb/s max if they have 8 sources, and everything else goes like 1 Kb/s. I went to limewire>options>advanced>firewall config> and copied the port number it showed and went on the windows firewall and opened 2 ports named Gnutella (one for TCP and one for UDP) with that port number and set the IP address to "127.0.0.1". it says that limewire has full access, but limewire still shows the firewall icon. i dont have any other firewalls besides the windows firewall. any idea why im still being firewalled?

[foolofthehill]

As far as I understand your post, the place you have entered the IP address you should have entered your computer name.
Go Control Panel>System>Computer Name and look where it says "Full Computer Name". This name you use to enter where you entered the IP address in your firewall configuration. Make also sure that the program exe of LW is added to your exception list in the firewall configuration....

[PinkFloydFM4]

ok, i fized the IP address part, but it still shows a firewall, even when i completely turn off the windows firewall. i dont know what else it could be, so either limewire is just being rediculous for no reason or theres some sort of secret firewall that i dont know about. thanks for tryin to help, foolofthehill.

[ukbobboy01]

PinkFloydFM4

I think you have asked your UNI the wrong question:

they don't have routers, just mini-hubs and that they don't have firewalls of their own

So someone else is managing your uni's network, a third party if you will. Therefore, the question is "who is managing their network and have they employed and/or installed bandwidth shaping (anti-P2P) equipment?"

Anyway, saying all that the university will know if anti-P2P equipment is being used on their network.



UK Bob

[PinkFloydFM4]

the firewall icon is gone and it says that i have a turbo charged connection, but the d/l's still go just as slow. it cant be the university because a guy down the hall can download songs in like 3-5 seconds, and not just the ones on the network with blue stars. would deleting the .limewire preferences folder do anything to help, or is there another solution?

[foolofthehill]

It's definitely worth a try....
Read here on how to delete this folder (Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire)
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420
Afterwards reboot your computer.

Maybe updating your Java might also have an effect....
Uninstall LW and all Java versions on your system. Reboot and then download the JRE offline installer of the newest Java version from here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
Install it and reboot again, then reinstall LW.