still can't connect (OS X 10.3.9)

ABeatty · #1 (**permalink**) January 9th, 2008

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Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings

BTW something I forgot to mention before is your model of Linksys is a "lemon" as it has a firmware problem which Linksys never bothered to fix. The effect is unreliable operation, thus occasional undesired firewalling & sometimes maybe loss of connection. Whether your router is at fault here I don't know. I'd be interested if you can connect with LW by by-passing the Linksys router & just using the modem. Try it & see what happens.

Yes, I have learned of the less than stellar behavior of our router model from others' comments I've seen on the internet, but we've never experienced any such problems before. Guess we've just been lucky.

*knocks on wood*

Anyway, I connected my laptop directly to the modem but couldn't get LimeWire connected by way of an Ethernet connection either. (I did get Azureus to connect and download files, though, both through the router and with a direct-to-modem connection.)

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If it does connect, then the problem is with the Linksys. If so, then remove your port forward rules for it. Redo them but choose a port between 49152 - 65535 (a good one to try is often port 64049.) Add this port number to your OSX firewall setting, else do another LimeWire one. Also change the connection & listening port numbers in the LW preferences settings. If you "cannot connect" when "not" using the Linksys, then do above anyway.

I redid the port forwarding as you suggested, rebooted the router, and was able to get ONE connection after a few minutes went by (usually my five turbo connections are made by that time). Normally I might start jumping for joy after all this time of getting no connections, but this is basically what I experienced a few weeks ago: one day it finally found something and then the next day nothing. I'll feel better if I can at least duplicate this behavior tomorrow or several days' running. But, any ideas why I can't get five? Based on getting multiple connections with Azureus (10+), I wouldn't think it is because of my ISP throttling concurrent connections as I previously mentioned.

ABeatty · #2 (**permalink**) January 9th, 2008

Okay, got five connections now after about an hour, so maybe it just had to settle down a bit after getting up and running. Crossing my fingers that this will last.

Thanks for all your help up to this point guys!