I have LimeWire on my Ibook and I'm connected to the Internet via a network at work. I can launch Limewire but I am constantly disconnected. When I try to connect nothing happens. Please help.

Maybe your type of connection doesn't allow you to connect to ports like 6346. In that case you are unable to connect to gnutella.

Try streaming some video (or audio) with another application. If the connection breaks often and rebuffers then there's a more general problem with your network.

everything is working...
only when i try to connect then nothing happens
even on different ports

You can't choose which ports to connect to, only your listening port. And that has nothing to do with your ability to connect.

I have exactly the same problem. I have just installed onto a Powerbook with OSX. Ihave tested the ISP and got "Gnutella OK" so it is not the ISP. But 'connect' just does nothing.

Any ideas?

I had no connection either (OSX), then realised that I had no 'connect' tab showing. I restarted using 'limewire.jar' instead of the app Limewire and for some reason the connect tab then appeared. This allowed connection to be tried!

Now the problem is to get a connection to establish itself!

hey: First off, I don't want to be rude but I was getting absolutely SICK to my stomach reading the repetitive unexplanitory 2-liners from kreiger that fixed nothing for me because, guess what, I don't know everything about computers. However>> The DUDE who mentioned simply opening RunLime (the .jar thing) instead of that cute little shortcut which was thrown onto my powerbook desktop ACTUALLY HELPED ME> thank you!!! YOU GUYS!! THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!!!!

glad to be of assistance. Now having got connected, I am joining about 200 other messagers to these forums (probably all oSX) who simply find that nothing much happens. In 2-3 hours of leaving limewire connected I have managed to share (download) half a track. Most of the time (about 90%) the prog is trying to connect but is actually not managing to establish any connection seriously enough to do anything!

Does Gnutella actually work? Or is this a common experience with not enough sharers, or too little bandwidth, or what?

When I start LimeWire I'll get connected fairly quickly, even on my 56K dial-up. However, after about 5 minutes all of my connections will have disappeared and the only thing I can do is continue the downloads currently in progress.

To regain connections, I have to shut down LimeWire and open it back up.

I PAID $10 FOR THE 'PRO' VERSION OF THIS CRAP, AND GOTTEN NOTHING BUT CANNED RESPONSES FROM THE COMPANY'S 'CUSTOMER SERVICE.' I EVEN WROTE THE CTO, WHO FORWARDED MY EMAIL TO CUSTOMER SERVICE, WHO THEN GAVE ME THE SAME CANNED RESPONSE.

GOOD JOB, LIMEWIRE! YOU'RE THE BEST!! HOW MUCH DID YOU PAY C-NET FOR YOUR REVIEW?