Connection problems
 

I HAVE BS 5.3.0.0 and have had no host connection problems for years. All of the sudden, I cannot connect. Any suggestions? I have tried several of the suggestions mentioned in the forum but nothing seems to work. Help please!

I have had the same problem. no sure what is going on. i wanted some stuff and got it from limewire. i just tried re instaling ver 5.1 with new peer list and had a connection for a short bit but only 1 peer. i want help to...

I've only had issues a few times and even then I found that with patience and just walking away and coming back later resulted in finally getting connected....this only happens after periods of not using BS for a while and therefor not having a current connections cache...usually I get connected to a bunch of LW hosts, but upon restarting I normally get connected to the usual majority of BS hosts...


btw, I use the expired beta version (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...sabotaged.html ) forced into UP mode and ALWAYS have PG2 running..

Hey, I will try the old beta version.. where can i find it??
can you post it??

thanks

you see that post of mine above your last post?

see that link in blue?...click on it...

Thanks for the direction to the links of old versions.. but none of them say beta. just 5.1 5.2 etc how do you know if its a beta version??

thanks

oh, stop yanking my chain...that link is to a post in this forum and it only contains the expired beta and the bearstart utility to run it....there are NO other versions posted in that first post....

connection
 

OK... do you actually have an older version of Bearshare up and running that connects like it used to?
im wondering why i dont see all people with the same problem....

you seem to have some serious issues with reading the very plain writing on the wall...I just had BS running a couple of days ago after a very long period on inactivity, and while it didn't connect immediately, it was fully connected to over 40 hosts within 4 minutes...

version 5.2.5 eventually connected without doing anything different it just took about a half hour :Smilywais: