Hey I downloaded the jar file but am not sure of what to type in the command window to make it run.

I'm running XP

Here is what I have done so far:

1. deleted the .limewire folder
2. Went in to my advanced settings and added Gnutella for both the TCP and UDP along with the 6346.

Still not connecting. It attempts to connect but in the end I get the good ole' DISCONNECTED.

Received incoming this session: false in bug report. Was able to connect a little this time, but relatively poorly compared to normal. Was able to download one song with many sources, otherwise hardly anything will connect at all, and then only at very low speeds.

I have a motorola surfboard cable modem SB4200E, 2 mbit connection which I've verified yesterday to be at least 1.7 mbit in reality, mac 500 mhz g4 running newest system, newest java, newest limewire. my hub is a nexswitch SD050s.

It's been unstable off and on, often crashing at night when the computer was idle other than limewire. I did install Firefox right before it dropped out completely, but uninstalled it and limewire and reinstalled limewire, plus installed limewire on another machine in my home network and got the same result. The network connections fluxuated a bit before they really bottomed out.

The best I've been able to get was
Current Hosts 3
Total Hosts 111
total files 36,330
total file MBs 93,981

The top of the program never shows me how many mb or files since this began, only Enabling open information sharing.

Today, it seems a little better, I'm able to download a few items, but only if they have a high nr of sources. Generic searches such as mpg or avi or mp3 return far fewer files than normal.

We still don't know wether you tried deleting the prefs or not (I won't ask wether you are connecting from your home or not, I figure that you are)

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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Jeannemrm: I haven't found too much info on your modem type other than other people have had problems with it. Have you researched whether there's an update for your modem software. Apparently an update overcomes some issues. I don't know any more than that. There's nothing in the manual about forwarding a port. I don't suppose you've switched the wrong computer for access to the net. What firewalls do you have & what OS version? Do you run moe than one comp on e the net at the one time & what do they do?

Haven't checked for upgrade as it's a cable company owned modem. I am in Europe, which may be why you haven't seen much on it. I'll check with Motorolas pages and see if there is a mac runnable update. I don't have firewalls turned on at the moment, and while there are three computers sharing the network, the others are barely active. My line is 2 mbits, so it should tolerate three machines ...only one of which is doing any heavy downloading...or at least trying to.

system info as comes up in bug report:
LimeWire version 4.1.10
Java version 1.4.2_05 from Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS X v. 10.3.5 on ppc
Free/total memory: 11073008/19988480

I found 4.1.10 via macupdate.com, though your webpages say that 4.0.8 was the newest...had same error with that version. Limewire has worked fine until the last few days aside from occational crashes...mostly at night.

I had some connection earlier today, but after having to force quit it and restart, it is not connecting at all again. Others are reporting trouble connecting to gnutella via other multi system programs as well. The one program was able to connect after changing the stable nodes file in it's gnutella folder.

What's the total memory you have on that computer? And do you run other apps whilst you're running it overnight. I convert 1 or 2 videos overnight & don't have trouble with LW, but I do occasionally have problems with the computer losing communication with the modem. Which means I need to restart both the computer & modem. But my g4's only a 733.

I've got 1.38 gb memory, a 120 mb hd where the downloads are put, and I don't leave much on...occationally yahoo messenger or mail at night. My little, ancient performa powermac in the bedroom is often online w/ internet radio at night, but that shouldn't be enough to knock my big machine and lw off the network. My machine is a bit old and takes too much capacity to do things like convert movies and run lw. I've also found that VLC and LW don't always do well together so that if I want to watch a show on vlc, I usually have to cut out of LW.

A little while ago(this evening), I got an error saying it could not connect to gnutella hosts and that that was usually due to content blocking of port or firewall...but neither is the case unless the blocking is coming from outside my ISP which does not block. On a whim, I've not configured my firewall and made the specific ports open for LW/gnutella etc and I'm getting some things downloaded, but as before, we're talking only thousands rather than millions of files 'available' to browse, and around 100000 mb availabe rather than the usual 3000 gb I have usually gotten.

Couldn't really find anything for the modem at motorolla either cept for pc users who use usb connection rather than ethernet. It's otherwise plug and play it seems.

I'm not sure at present. You're getting a false report which suggests something's not right. If it were you'd be getting better uplds & dwnlds. For the time being may I suggest 2 things: 1. Do a SAFE start & Repair Permissions (even if it doesn't fix the problem, it should be done both before & after installations of any kind. It certainly wont do any harm!) 2. When you're away from your computer, hide all windows except the search/dwnld window (ie: go to View>Hide>Monitor, Connections & Library window. Also Hide LW in the background. This will help stop the build up of ram use & VM growth.

I'm hoping another member will add his piece here also within the next 24-36 hrs.

I suspect your nextswitch hub to be the problem. I tried to find infos on google about it, but it seems pretty unknown which is a bad sign. Try to connect your machine running LW directly to the modem first. If it works, your hub is the problem. Also look at the bug report in LW to see if the incomings are true or false when connected directly to the modem. If false, there is a enabled firewall on your modem.

Bonne chance!

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One of the first things I did was to run first norton systemworks, which found some issues and supposedly fixed them....then, I ran disk utilities from a panther install disk and did a disk repair (twice, just in case) and then a permissions repair. I've been working as a mac tech for a couple of years at a publishing company.

I can try to hide windows if necessary. All this happened relatively suddenly a few days ago...have had switch for about a year, but will try it directly tomarrow just in case something isn't right with it. But it's worked until now at least. Will see if I can find the user guide for it (fat chance I'd guess, cause I'm in the middle of packing to move transatlantic!) and see if I can find the IP address to get into the switch, if possible and see if there is any kind of firewall.

Why do I always attract the strangest glitches? Probably cause I keep fighting with them til I figure them out or find someone who can!