chise4real Hi.
If People start a new thread Its much easier to deal with a specific problem
Posting in someone else's thread, May be overlooked & causes confusion.
Also Connection problems can be tricky So Post your details at the beginning,
This will get you fixed much faster.

So use this blue link to start your own personal thread It will open where you
need to start typing Thank You.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/newthr...newthread&f=22
Peace.

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mickjapa108

Hi Birdy, thanks for your reply and my system details are as follows:-

Windows XP home edition SP2
Windows firewall and the one that came with the router
504 mb of ram
120 gig hard drive
8meg broadband
Netgear DG834gt Router
Home
Limewire 4.12.11
Java 1.6.0-01
Sky broadband
Your test worked. Immediate pop up to verify this info
Not sharing
Been using Limewire for about a year and only had problems when I changed my ISP to SKY from Onetel
I did see a brick wall but I have removed it somehow by clicking on it, not seen it since

Hi petero,
If you don't see the brick wall that's a good thing...means that there's no firewall interfering with LW.

Did you try the download from magnetmix? Did you see a reasonable speed?

Did you try changing ports & did it help?

You could try changing Java versions to this one. Use the JRE offline installer & remove your current Java version before you install the new one!
Java SE Downloads - Previous Release - JDK 5

Hi Birdy,
Yes I did try changing ports with no success but only changed the value in the listening port and the upnp is allowed. I don't know how to alter things in the router,although I know how to get into it.
The speed from the download at magnetmix was 2 hosts at 7-12 kb/s.
Thanks,
Peter

p.s. Will not allow me to download the Java software, keeps coming up with fatal error message

Well since the magnetmix download was slow, I'd be looking at your ISP as a suspect

No, seriously, since they have that FUP in place & since speeds have dropped off since you've been with Sky Broadband...it sounds suspicious.

Especially since you're not even seeing the firewall icon...being firewalled can slow down speeds. That's not your problem. If changing ports didn't help, there's not too much that we can do. If it's an ISP issue then there's probably not much that you can do either, apart from changing ISP

T hanks for your help Birdy, much appreciated.