Here are the answers to all the questions you wanted me to answer...I hope these help....

-My OS is Windows XP.
-I don't know how to find my firewalls...
-I have 256 mb ram
-12.5 GB of space left on my hard disk
-I have a dialup connection
-I'm not sure of my moden brand name and what not...
-I'm connecting from my home...however I can connect to limewire, i just can't get a connection between me and the other user in order to download the song.
-I have LimeWire 4.12.3 and Java 1.5.0_06
-My ISP is the university I go to..however I've never had this problem before
-I'm not sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs
-This is a new problem for me and I've had limewire for awhile now.
-I did that test at "http://www3.limewire.com:6346/" and it said "your test worked"

Sarabeth86

I assume that you see a brickwall in front of the small globe in the left bottom corner of the LW window, which would mean that LW detects a firewall blocking you to access the network.

Here is a link on how to configure any firewall (Connection problems -click first):
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=51361
You can find your firewall at Desktop>Start>Settings>Control Panel>Windows Firewall

Another thing to try would be to delete the LW preference folder called " .limewire " as described in the following thread (Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire)
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

However, if you have this problem only with a specific file (i.e. you do not see the brickwall), then it might be that the host(s) of said file are either offline, have moved-renamed-deleted the file. You might want to re-search that file again using different search terms.

My general experience with Universities is that they tend to block P2P programs, or shape the bandwidth used by students with a high bandwidth usage. But since you said you have a dial-up connection (is it a 56k modem, Adsl, or ?????)

Try the above and see if it solves your problem. If not, get back here and we check further....

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