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Old December 2nd, 2007
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Originally Posted by Full Clip View Post
Hi, I had a bit of hassle with firewall, but sorted that out...to an extent!!! I now have a Turbo Charged connection downloading at 1kb a sec....can't seem to speed it up, have tried different settings - modem, dsl, T1 etc makes no difference.

any help or suggestions ??

nice one gary
  • Windows Vista Home Basics
  • McAfee firewalls
  • 1 gig of ram
  • About 20 gig of 80 gig HD space available
  • Broadband connection
  • Modem is NextNet, Wireless Inc. I have lost numbers
  • Connecting from my home
  • LW 4.14.10 Pro, Java 1.6.0_3(I installed that yesterday)
  • My ISP is Clearwire – Ireland
  • “My test Worked”…woohoo
  • Not sharing with any other computers etc
  • this is my first time
  • There is a brick wall
  • I honestly don’t have a clue about modem/router or UPnP
  • I’m running McAfee, came with the laptop, and windows protector
  • I’m living in Ireland
Clearwire are known to throttle p2p bandwidth.
Clearwire Broadband - Page 2 - boards.ie
Clearwire : Usage Policy

You could try changing LW's listening port (tools > options > advanced > firewall config) to 64049 > apply > ok. Or try other ports in the range of 49152 - 65535.
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