i tried something... i connect with my dialup and LW just worked! and with no firewall icon. But that does'nt slove nothing

i reset my router settings and now i port forward only these 2 :-
(50899 : 6346)

I check it with
http://www.whatsmyip.org/ports/
also checked with local port scanner

(Port 50899: TCP,UDP) :Open

(Port 6346 :TCP,UDP) :Closed
Error Number: 61
Connection refused!

i disabled my firewall i never use winxp firewall, i use mcafee but i only use it when i have to, it;s not on automatic! it's disabled.

i use lastest Java, just upgraded 1.5.0_09
Limewire 4.12...but i also tried older versions.. i had same prob!

i don't know how...but i did it some how..i think
Limewire just worked!! perfect

i left it on while i was messing around with some router settings,
looked at my DUmeter, and there was a beat, checked lime, and its turbo charged. and downloading.

anyway, i must find what was causing the prob, must be something i did, or maybe it was just my ISP! i don't know yet! but i promise i'll keep u guys informed, thanx for u'er help

i'm afraid to reboot

LOL. Been there

At least you know now that problem might be in the setup you had before

i thought i should continue with my situation..,

after i posted my last thread.., i rebooted and all was good
but the next day back to sqaure one, i have on my pc another winxp as a backup OS, i thought my windows had bad settings, but nothing changed.

i called my ISP again, i googled around i found out that they had troubles and thier upgrading or some sort!
Limewire is okay now, i don't port forward at all, i use uPNP no sepcial settings at all. just install and run simple as that, even works behind my firewall, even behind winXP FW.
now i'm connecting to 8,9 and 10 hosts no BS

what i'm saying is i think most of the problems people have with lime or Gnutella generaly, is thier ISP, just like what happend to me.

my friend has the same version of lime as i do, and he's on a different network (ISP) he never had the problems i had. when it started with me, i did'nt play around with connection setting, it's just degraded till no connection at all.

anyway, i'm a long time user and a big Fan of Limewire...maybe they can do something about our crappy ISP's
or get around these problems somehow.

thanx for u'er help everyone

now let me download in peace