I cannot get limewire to connect worth anything during the day. i have all the same problems mentioned and have tryed everything given to me as a solution. But me being the insomniac that i am, get on limewire at all hours of the night and early early morning and have no problems whatsoever. I can connect easily and download at incredible speeds. Can you explain this to me?

University bandwidth throttling & blocking
 

I believe that Universities are stepping up their bandwidth limiting and blocking. There are very sophisicated protocol level software that Universities are using that will throttle total Gnutella bandwidth or totally cut it off. Schools tend to loosen these limits at night if I understand things correctly.

Someone needs to find out what your network administrators are doing on your network.

Thanks
-greg

Gnutella Blockking in Schools
 

Unfortunately, when I asked the IT Dept. at my university, they said "Since this has to do with file sharing, we're not allowed to answer ANY questions about it or even talk to you about the subject at all. Goodbye"

( When I tried to find out if they blocked port 6346 / Gnutella).

Wich is hilarious because you know that *they* know half the kids on campus are downloading files as we speak.

Re: telnet test?
 

What I did was do a search ( Sherlock) for "Terminal", which is a built-in Mac app that lets you run the telnet test. Once that Terminal app window pops up, it will prompt you ( w/ flashing cursor) to enter info. Enter the info / numbers from the Limerwire page abouit running the Telnet test and hit "Enter".

If after a few seconds you see the text "Gnutella OK" you MAY be able to connect to Gnutella networks. However, Zenzele Bell from Limewire told me that getting "Gnutella OK" does not necessarily mean you *definitely* can access Gnutella. When I asked if there was any other test I could run to find out I got no reply to this question.


Sorry I don't have the link to the Limewire telnet test page.

I am the starter of this topic. Limewire is the only software I can download since I'm os 9.

The green connection light will light up for 4 seconds...then it disconnects right away.

I've reinstalled and uninstalled about 4 times, still the same problems, not installation.

Come one LimeWire people if we're gonna appreciate and register the pro version we have to fall in love with the original. **** or get off the pot rockstar!

Re: University bandwidth throttling & blocking
 

An unconfirmed side effect of this bandwidth limiting is file transfers cut off and retry. More specifically since upstream bandwidth for P2P at my university is saturated uploads give a Transfer Interrupted message about every 32 K of progress.

Last spring I saw a few uploads not give errors and at that point the connection was less likely to be saturated since it was finals week and a number of students had already left. Increasing the timeout for uploads may improve things by reducing the number of reconnects. I do realize swarm downloads also give Transfer Interrupted messages but the amount of data transferred isn't large enough and the uploads often reconnect.

That might be the case Peerless. Bandwidth limiting by the packet would allow a certain size of data to transfer (like 32 or 128 K) but drop the rest. The application still wants to send the remaining data so it tries again, gets a few more packets across and continues with this cycle.

It sounds like you're saying only some of the uploaders are cutting out -- meaning their downloading bandwidth is saturated and causing the same problem I'm having but in the other direction. My downloads don't cut out repeatedly but they just go slow.

Hmmmm.....Interesting. I've had a lot of downloads cutting off - yet if I kill and reselect them, they often resume instantly (this normally happens every 30 seconds or so until I get cross and look for another host).

When I saw this issue being discussed previously, I think the general opinion was that it was a strange response from some other [badly coded] clients. This idea of university throttling seems very logical, though.