Yikes helps this makes no sense!

[Stonerosey]

Hey, I have Limewire pro. Have used it for over a year.

Recently though, the firewall thingy has shown up. Maybe I just never noticed it before, but I do now.

I have been downloading some things that aren't super popular, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

This I don't understand. How come I can download some things and the others come up and it says "need more sources". I start the search over and the same stuff comes up. Some of the hosts are even browsable and I still can't download from them. This ****** me off.

I have gone through loads of posts trying to figure or configure this out to no avail.

I have made sure my windows firewall is disabled - nothing changed.

I went in and did the thing where you enter the listening port numbers and gnutella stuff and that didn't change anything.

BUT after I did that, the listening port number changed! So I refilled in a new one along with the old one and a few days later the boxes seemed to uncheck themselves or something.

I don't have Norton firewall. I made sure my linksys was p2p happy yet I still have the firewall signal on my limewire and when I try to do direct connect, it says I can't because of a firewall too.

I am wireless on a laptop and have Verizon dsl. I don't know if they have a firewall and I don't know if you call them will they give you attitude about p2p?

Yeesh. Also none of these files are on Bitzi, I checked. In fact most of em are M4a's.

Maybe someone can help a girl out here ay?

Thanks a pile,
Stonerosey

[wondering why]

Grandpa has done a little research in this thread it may help you as well.....http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...hlight=Verizon

[Stonerosey]

Thanks I did the test for "your test worked" before and it worked.
I did the limewire reconfigure stuff for the firewall, maybe I did it wrong?

But I didn't do the true false test til just now and it came up false.

Which then it says to go open a port, which I thought I have done.

So I'm back to where I started.

It's not like I can never download, but I can only seem to do it some of the time. The ones I can't download are 4 stars so it's not that type of thing.

People can upload from me, though it seems it isn't happening as frequently as it was.

Something changed and I didn't do the changing and no one else has access to my laptop.

grrrr. Thanks anyways...Anyone else?

Stonerosey

[wondering why]

Whats the name of your modem ???

[Lord of the Rings]

LW has the ability to "force" or "push" its way thru some firewalls, but then ... many others will be blocked out all the same. Also, you'd never be able to direct connect with anybody whilst your test shows false!

Your problem is either softw firewall or as WW suggested, your modem or router, many of which nowadays have internal NAT firewalls. So you need to enable UPnP if it has that ability (or reliable ability), or else forward a port for LW. Connection problems? Check here first! (click on link)

[Stonerosey]

Hi WW my modem I guess is called Westell Wirespeed, that is the thing my dsl is right? I'm retarded when it comes to all this sort of thing so forgive my ignorance.

Hi LOR I did #1 already and my test worked.
#2 I did as well. I went to write down the Listening port number and then went to the control panel and into network connections and properties then to the advanced tab (please indulge me the step by step as I may have messed up in this process). There are two sections here - the top part says "Windows Firewall" and "protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing access to this computer from the internet" and in that section there is a "settings" button. The second part says "Internet Connection Sharing" below that there is an unchecked box that says
"Allow other network users to connect through this computers internet connection" and below that there is a faded box that is checked that I can't uncheck cuz it is unclickable I guess and the words next to it are faded and say "Allow other network users to control or disable the shared internet connection" This also has a settings button but it is faded and unclickable too. BUT if I put a check in the second box that was previously unchecked, the faded unclickable stuff becomes bold and clickable. So I don't know how that is supposed to be but for now the second box is unchecked and the rest is unclickable. So this could be a problem?

Anyhow, what I did then was hit the first settings button at the top of the tab for Windows Firewall. The window that comes up tells me that my pc is not protected and my firewall is OFF. I then go to the advanced tab where it says "network connection settings" where it says right under that "Windows firewall is enabled for the connections selected below. To add exceptions for an individual connection, select it and then click settings" then there is a box that contains two selctions the LAN and the Wireless connection- next to them is the Settings button. I have tried it with both checked and with just wireless checked and I get the same results. So right now only Wireless is checked and you hit "settings" and the "services" comes up where I had added Gnutella the way the directions say to do. I did it once but it didn't work, so I went back and the listening port number had changed! I don't know how, and I know I wrote down the correct one. So I did the whole thing over again adding on two more gnuttellas with the new port number. I did just as the directions asked. Still no change. Now when I go back to look at the gnutellas I added, the IP address I put in there doesn't say the number they tell you to put from the limewire page. It says the name of my actual network so I don't know if that is a no-no too. I didn't type it in I did just as the directions asked as much as I could anyhow. I did both TCP and UDP. I checked my Linksys and it's p2p enabled.

So maybe somewhere in there I did a faux pas?

Also, when I do a search, my own stuff comes up in it all the time, is that common as well?

Thank you both and everyone else for your time and replies, I very much appreciate it.

Stonerosey