i'm stuck as leaf node???

flashg111 · #1 (**permalink**) August 7th, 2010

hi everyone..i'm sure i'll find the answer here...i have too...lol...ok,i'm running windows xp-home...along with lw-5.5.8..80g harddrive,512 ram forgotten the rest but its fine....i just seem to be stuck behind my firewall.i'v been running lw about 4 yrs and this is first time i've had a problem...i apologise if i havent left enough info but i've been at this near on 7 hours and well not happy jan...lol(its a ref. to an aussie commercial) so i would appreciate any assistance...yours truly....flashg...

p.s...it also says i cant firewall transfer and it only gives me a medium connection at best...but not always....so i'm downloading torrents ok but only the ones that were started....pretty sure thats it...thanks.

Blackhorse 70V · #2 (**permalink**) August 7th, 2010

Greetings flashg111,

Welcome to the Gnutella forums!

For downloading torrents, you would be better off using Vuze or uTorrent. Both are free, and offer similar capabilities. LW does not track share ratios, so it cannot dl from some torrent sites, and some versions limit the number of simultaneous torrents.

Lord of the Rings · #3 (**permalink**) August 7th, 2010

Make sure LW is added to your XP firewall if that's what you are using as a firewall. Sometimes you need to remove the firewall listing for LW with different versions & then re-add LW as an exception.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...-firewall.html

Also, check for any Java updates. You should only have a single version of Java on the system, if there are cross-versions it can cause problems; Reinstallation Technique; re: re-installing Java if you find more than one version. Running CCleaner will help too.