I am aware some ISP's in South Africa are not friendly to p2p users. Don't know if yours is one of those. Also as Birdy pointed out, it can be a little complicated when trying to connect via an appartment network. Since you have no access to the router, you don't know what type they are using or the settings. There's a chance you are firewalled by the router without UPnP or port forwarding abilities.
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Originally Posted by die_keiser 10. ... Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? "Page cannot be found" |
Which means the default port LW uses is definitely being blocked by something. Either the ISP or the apartment router. BTW did you configure your XP firewall? ->
Windows Firewall - LimeWire
Try Birdy's suggestions above. But not only with the listening port, but change setting to Port forward & change Connection port also to one between 49152 - 65535 such as 64049. Some others to try are: 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 80, 443, 427, 20282, 22817, 34599, 40475, 65530, 6295, 8360, 19515, 20285, 22091, 25079, 26394, 33307, 33049, 42628, 52343, 51002, 50012.