Pierre from Montreal
 

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Hi, my name is Pierre from Montréal, Québec, Canada.

I am a user of Limewire for many years and I upgraded to Limewire Pro a few years ago (Without noticing much difference, to tell the truth, loll)

Before using Limewire I have been an enthusiastic user of Napster. The first one, the real one! And I still suffer the loss of it. I was using Napster at the time I switched from a 56k (in reality, 45 kbps) to a high speed cable connection. This was more than 10 years ago. Imagine my excitement when I first experienced high speed with Napster. Wow! It was possible to listen to the song during the download. The song did download faster than it played!!

I am still frustrated that this wonderful tool was taken from us. I don't think the matter is simple as saying that there are bad P2Pers depriving good honest authors from their earnings. It is a lot more complicated than that. Maybe it is not the place here to talk about that but I would be happy to do it where ever it is more appropriated.

Nowadays I only use LW at rare moments. Only a few times a year, as a matter of fact. My teenager's years were in the 60's and it is mostly the music of my youth that I wanted to retrieve. At first, with Napster, what was so thrilling was to rediscover songs that I had completely forgotten. Yes, I downloaded a lot of those ancient songs at the time and I still have them on my HD but I don't listen to them anymore. The reason is that, today, there are radio stations on the Internet that play this music continuously and I prefer letting someone else do the programming.

What brought me here today is that Limewire refuses to connect. I still have a lot of reading to do on this forum but I was asked to first introduce myself. So, now, it is done.

Here is my system:

1. Windows Vista Home
2. Windows Firewall
3. 2 Gigs Ram
4. 320 Gigs Hard Drive
5. Cable (more than 10 years now with same ISP)
6. N/A
7. From my house (residential neighborhood)
8. Limewire 4.12.10 pro, Java 1.6.0_03
9. Vidéotron
10. Your test worked!!
11. No, just going through a D-Link DI-604 router (cable connected)
12. It is a new problem I use LW for many years.
13. Yes
14. ?
15. Only Windows Firewall
16. Canada


Pierre C.
Montreal


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