I've used Bearshare for years now and its always worked great. I recently bought a new router, had my Modem serviced, and downloaded the new edition of Bearshare. The problem is I can't fully connect, the last light to the right flashes yellow or in some case just go solid yellow. I looked up what it meant on the FAQ and forwarded all my ports accordinly. No luck though, it still doesn't work. Can someone help me out here?

Setup:
WinXP
ISP - Road Runner
Bearshare 5.2.5
Linksys BEFSR41-v4
I have two PC's connected to my router along with a connection for my Xbox


Thanks in Advance

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Wow, thanks for the help guys, much appreciated.

May I suggest that you try your modem's or routers help desk, they might have the answer your looking for.

Also, your ISP may be using anti-P2P bandwidth restricting techniques, you will find that more and more ISPs in the US and UK are using these facilities to kill off P2P traffic on the internet.

Now over to you to do some research into your own problem.

This may be too obvious but,
1. Is your software firewall set to allow bearshare
2. Is your router firewall set to allow bearshare (both udp & tcp)
3. Are you using any spyware blocker software that might be interfering

Good luck!

xeno

Jeez... just noticed this post is a year old... sorry.