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!

tried a direct connect to the cable modem....maybe a tiny bit faster, but no real difference. did find why the one value was false....that was a setting I'd changed in the prefs in trying to solve the lack of connections problem based on something I'd read in one of the forum threads, so now the incoming is true, but I'm still only getting a relative handful of available files/connections for some reason; rarely more than 100,000 mb as opposed to the usual 3,000 gb I've had up until recently.

Good news about your incoming being true. Tried maximising upld & dwnld success by optimising LW? If you haven't already, check these tips: Tips 1 (1st post only) & also Tips 2
Are you still using LW 3?

am using the newest limewire, found via macupdate.com which is 4.1.10 though limewire's site has newest listed as 4.0.8 for some reason.

If I streamline it/limit it though, that's not going to help the fact that I'm only getting a fraction of the normal files available to begin with, in fact, it will only make it worse! Basically, I'm getting about 1/30th of the normally available files coming up as searchable...not enough files to change the status at the top from enabling open file sharing to a running total of files and mb/gb! I have been able to get some things to download in the last 24 hours, but I'm not finding many of the things I need to find because of this.

jeannemrm: did you forget your membership sign in (only just realised you are JMRM.)

I'm rather confused with your problem. What setting was this?

Change it to what? There's something I obviously don't know here. I need to learn quick.
Do you share files? If you share, it's much easier to connect & improve your search results. Try to find popular files to share. I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Be it I'm dumb or something. It's almost impossible to find 'all' results of an item from the entire worldwide gnutella network in a search.

Do you run as an UltraPeer? What speed is your main machine?

I heard it's not a good idea to repair permissions using the startup disk b/c you're changing the permissions what they are on the disk. My nderstanding is it's better to repair permissions after a Safe start with Disk Utility on your HDD.

Oh the LW 4.1.0 version is the latest beta. It's solved many people's problems so far.

whatever the problem was, it seems to have resolved itself for the moment. Suddenly, I've gone from having up to 3 connections to having 24 connections and over 3 million mb available to search again(see tools/statistics). At least twice earlier today, I got a repeated error message that limewire couldnt' connect to hosts w/ likely reason of either content blocking of port or wirewall...neither of which should have been the case because before I had no firewall in place, and now I've set it up w/ the appropriote ports, and my ISP does not limit the service.

As to the jmrm and jeannemrm....my mistake...I use jeannemrm on most things and put it in by habit...the forum didn't give me an error, so I assumed it was right until I tried to log back in to edit a message and couldn't and sent for my password etc.

The message about available files/mb usually comes up after the enabling open information sharing has run and a good connection has been established...it comes up at the top of the limewire browser, as a page title comes up at the top of a browser window.

As to the other item I'd changed which made the value false, In one of the forum responses, they talked about changing to some other commonly used listening port if your ISP blocked gnutellas normal port..As I didn't know if my ISP had begun this, I tried it...either I hadn't changed it back or had but then had a crash such that changes were not saved.

I still suspect some kind of network issue...it could be local here in Europe or even scandinavia that was somehow preventing a good connection, especially since it came on suddenly a few days ago and LW has been working fine for me for a long time. There have also been intermittant web and mail connection issues in the last week, but not as noticeable as the LW problem.

Thanks for the help and I'll let all know if it happens again.