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December 4th, 2009
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 Limewire Won't Connect I used to get a Firewall error but let me reassure you that I have disabled everything that could even be conceived as a potential firewall. Now it just sits on Connecting... forever. I tried fixing this once and I finally gave up, I would really love to make it work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98) Vista 2. What firewalls you have? Windows firewall 3. How much ram? 1918MB 4. Hard Disk space available? 97GB free 5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) Cable 6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? Belkin 54G - Not sure of Model but have attempted to bipass via direct connection with same error. 7. Where are you trying to connect from (house, appartment complex, school, student accomodation, work, etc.)? House 8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version. LW - 5.3.6; Java - 1.6.0_16 9. Who is your ISP (Internet Service Provider)? Comcast 10. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? Your test worked 11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. One other desktop and on a rare occasion one laptop, both are usually off, the desktop is hard wired, the two laptops use the wireless modem. 12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. I am familiar with LimeWire, I have been using it for a while on Windows XP, but this is the first time I tried it on my laptop using Windows Vista. 13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? _ click here to see Sample image Used to, not anymore, still won't connect, just says connecting and the bars are gray... 14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled? I don't know? I've tried both settings in LW, and I've added the LW port to my list of connections. Don't know too much about the router. 15. What security programs are you using (antivirus etc)? Some people might not be aware that their security suite includes a firewall  AVG, Spyboy, Adaware, Windows Defender, NONE of which are currently installed, I uninstalled all of them in an attempt to get this thing working.16. What country are you living in? Sometimes there are ISPs with the same name in more than one country (eg Clearwire in the USA & also in Ireland). USA  |
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December 4th, 2009
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 Is your Belkin working in wireless mode or wired?  If LW has previously been added to your Vista firewall, remove it & re-add it. Add it to both UDP & TCP exceptions using sub rules & give it all port ranges. If you are using LW on another computer, make sure they are not both attempting to connect through the same port. ie: LW's menu bar, tools -> options -> advanced -> superreallyadvanced -> firewalls. Make sure your Belkin firewall is set up for UPnP. Have you logged into it to check? Try these things: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...t-connect.html Quote:
And yes, some spyware programs & even some 3rd party firewalls are anti-p2p sharing programs so you do need to be careful which ones you choose. AVG ... see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/host-c...tml#post347634 Last edited by Lord of the Rings; December 4th, 2009 at 08:18 AM. |
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December 4th, 2009
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| Ok, uh, I guess it's working in wireless mode? I mean technically the desktop is connected via a wire but the two laptops run through the wireless setting? Limewire is on my approved list of my firewall but my Vista Firewall is also currently disabled. I have both exceptions already, only thing is I had chosen the ports that limewire said it was running on. What number ports should I change it to? Only this computer is now trying to access limewire, my old laptop worked fine with it but it died, so now I'm stuck with Vista and it will not work. I have gone into my router settings and honestly don't see anything about UPnP so I'm not sure how to set that up. I also tried changing the limewire firewall settings from the UPnP option to see if that would help. I have no spyware, anti-virus or adware programs currently installed BUT the ones that I would normally use, DID work with Limewire on my previous Laptop with XP. I have to leave for work in a minute, I may be back in a few hours during my break. If you have any other advice, please post it here, I imagine you won't be around by time I get off but I will try any steps to rectify it tonight. I deleted the settings from my firewall and am readding it and I uninstalled my Java and will reinstall that tonight as well. I will let you know if anything changes. Thanks. |
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December 4th, 2009
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| Why when I try to re-add limewire to my vista firewall does it say I'm adding Limewire 4.18.6. - Didn't we say that I had Limewire 5? Even when I click on browse and choose my current limewire, it still has it listed that way. |
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December 4th, 2009
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| Java Download ??? Okay so I'm home and ready for round two - One Problem. I'm slightly malfunctioning at the moment and I'm not sure which offline Java I should download. Any chance someone could give me a direct link? Thank you. |
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December 4th, 2009
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| Okay scratch that, figured out the java with a little assistance. With that being said... I deleted and readded Limewire to the Vista Firewall (although it's still disabled.) I uninstalled Java and replaced it with the offline installation. I checked Tools and Advanced Tools and it says that I AM behind a Firewall but when I click on why it says unknown.  I don't understand!I'm going to continue down the list on that other thread and see if it gets me anywhere. |
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December 4th, 2009
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| After you deleted LW's preferences folder, did all of the settings within LW's options revert back to default? What listening port is your LW using? Did you make sure to remove all other Java versions installed on your computer, before you installed the latest update? When you disabled LW's performance options, did you make sure to click 'ok' to save the change? Have a look at the router & see whether you can find the model - if nothing's showing on top then have a look underneath. The model might start with F5D...., F1D...., F6D.... etc If we know the model then we might be able to help check out UPnP settings & also look at port forwarding.Have you tried any other p2p apps & if so do you have the same connection problems? Some other free apps below. FrostWire Phex BearShare |
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December 5th, 2009
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| XP divers won't work under Vista jaustera It seems that Vista has struck again, I had the same problem you have when I tried to connect my son's (then) new Vista PC wirelessly to my modem. This should have worked especially as my other son's laptop and PC worked flawlessly while being further away and running under Windows XP. The way I solved my son's problem, after weeks of trying to get "flakey Vista" to work with my modem's XP wireless driver was by going to my modem's website and downloading the (beta) Vista wireless driver. The simple fact is that XP drivers are not stable under Vista, whether you set the O/S to run the driver in XP mode or not, I was only able to get my son's Vista O/S PC to connect to my modem by getting the driver specially written for Vista. UK Bob |
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