Firewall and limewire
 

Where I work a firewall has been installed and now I cannot get Limewire to connect at all. It works fine for me at home on a dial connection. I am very raw at this but perhaps it is a port that I need to get opened. Any ideas????
Thanks
Dave ( Ireland)

Dave, may these links help you...

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=47603
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...light=firewall

Philippe

Hullo,

I to am searching for information on dropping the firewall on my mac. I don't appear to NEED to do this though because LimeWire says I have a "turbo-charged" connection speed. I notice however that LimeWire is detecting a firewall. Currently, I have disabled the firewall on my mac, have disabled the firewall on my Belkin router, and I (believe) have opened up port 6346 on the virtual server settings for the router. Incidently I didn't need to do any of this to have LimeWire working fine.

If I am able to use LimeWire with a "turbo" connection, does this mean all the ports LimeWire needs are open, and Limewire is simply detecting that I have a firewall but is not being bottlenecked by it?

Aloha, McH

Dave check out this website for general port forwarding information if you are using a router.

www.portforward.com

It was helpful for me.

i cannot connect to limewire network it shows afirewall in the bottom left block

The quick and dirty way.....
 

Simply plug your modem directly into the 'puter and bypass the router set up. This is what I do. It gives me the fastest connection possible. When I am done I plug the router back in the way it was for wireless networking.

There are also a lot of posts on firewall / router issues on this list. A little topic searching will go a long way to finding your best solution.

g'luck! :Smilywais::Smilywais:

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