Bearshare is using the same port as Limewire (6346). So I do not understand why it works for Bearshare but not for Limewire. I think I will just keep Bearshare (it is also a Gnutella Client).

HELP! I've been fighting this for 3 days and I'm ready to take a hammer to this computer. My problem is when I try and connect, everything appears to be working for 6 to 8 seconds and then I get disconnected. I've read through the forums and tried the fixes recommended but to no avail. Here is a list of what i've already done and know.
I completely deleted McAfee off my home computer.
I am running WindowsME
I use a wireless network to my ISP
My connection speed is 512k
They do not block Gnutella
I do not have a router
I looked at the bug report example and it states"Received incomming this session: False."
I do not think I am going through a proxy server. How can I tell?
I've totally re-loaded limewire Pro.
If I have another firewall enabled on my PC, I cant find it.
I ran the new jar as suggested.

Can anyone help? PLeeeeease

Go here & tell us what happens: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ Where are you trying to connect from; home, school, work, etc. ? You said this has been happening for 3 days. Did you install anything new in the weeks before that? Have you updted your Java?

I've been having major issues with limewire for the last few days too, but not just limewire. Gnutella in general. When limewire died, I tried a few others that checked multiple networks and they also could not contact gnutella. Someone on one of the user groups for one of the programs sent out an updated 'stable nodes' list that when put in the appropriate folder, made that program connect to gnutella, but limewire is still hopeless...I might get an unstable connection to a handfull of files to search, but nothing downloads. Is it possible that some outside influence is messing with the major 'nodes'/important IPs? for. ex. blocking them some way to disturb the network?

my ISP does not block this service and I have a 2 mbit connection so I have enough bandwidth, but am not getting connected. Have also removed limewire entirely, reinstalled, run system tools to clean up system and so on.

Please do 2 things, 1st run the Bug Report check (Click this link for image example) & report back your results; True/False. 2. Provide us your OS version, connection type (& your modem & router brands & model no.'s), where you are trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.) Do yo know which version of Java you have? Haave you installed anything recently before LW started having problems?

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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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.