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murasame · #96 (**permalink**) October 27th, 2004

dzine, as a Mac user, I suggest you disable your firewall completely: Macs don't need them as much as PCs.
Now, where are you trying to connect from? Home? Work? School/university?
Launch LW and go to the preferences. Go to the Bug Reports section and click the button for an example. In the window that appears you'll find somewhere along the lines this written: "Recieved incoming this session". If it says false (if true, then you're ok, firewall-wise), then there's a firewall blocking LW, and since your OS X firewall either allows LW or is disabled, then it's because you are trying to connect from somewhere else than home and that they people who own the connection don't want P2P, so they bock it. No "legit" way around that.
If that still isn't your case (I mean that you can't connect but you are using a home connection) then it's possible that it's your ISP who is responsible for blocking P2P. You can try calling them to ask them what's the deal.