Hi, Direct Connections ---

Your computer is behind a firewall or a router and cannot recieve direct connections


How do I fix this please? I have SpeedTouch 585, Googled it, nothing much came up except some guy found Manual Port Forwarding in options, checked that, useless to me.

Please help, thanks.

I am with AOL, without the software - Wireless and with my own router. I do not use any firewalls nor is any installed.
Windows Firewall is switched off.
If this helps, I have made a video of what I did, I am uploading the file as we speak on Megaupload.
It is 52.07 MB - uncompressed 78.8 MB.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FLCHAZSC

Try enabling UPnP within the router & choose that option from LW's tools > options > advanced > firewall config. Apply > ok to save the change.

If that doesn't fix things (give it a few minutes to see if the wall disappears), try forwarding a port through the router. Click on the link below & you'll find instructions. Don't forget to set up a static IP address first, you'll find instructions for that within the link below as well.
http://www.portforward.com/english/r...i/Limewire.htm

*You're better off configuring the Windows firewall, rather than running without one
Firewall setup

Thanks for reply, however I have followed those instructions. I have still unsuccessfuly been able to complete it, please download the link I gave you and tell me if I have done something wrong, thanks...

That file of yours won't open...what extension is it?
Next time, it's probably better to explain what you did rather than ask people to download a pretty big file...lots of people have a monthly download limit & wouldn't bother.

Sorry, but I can promise you that I have done the steps directed in that link. I have done everything twice to make sure and it still don't work, sorry this is very frustrating!!!

btw, it is a .7zip file, you can extract from that or winRAR.

Ok I just watched your video & one thing I saw was that after you'd set up rules within your router & gone back to LW's firewall config page...your listening port & manually forwarded port were not the same. You still had port 6346 as the port forwarded. That won't work. Both listening port & manually forwarded port must be the same, so make sure both are 13616.

Also saw that you only had 1 DNS server rather than 2...I'm not sure if that's going to matter when setting up a static IP or not.
Maybe someone else here could answer that for me???

Thank you birdy for all your help and support (and downloading video), it is what you said - the same listening port & manually forwarded port, I put them the same and it working perfectly. Thanks once again -