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January 14th, 2006
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 Hi guys ... so i've read all of the above and tried all that i can to help but I'm still stuck with incredibly low connectivity that should be at least connecting in the high 20+ kb/s I'm sooo frustrated... d/ls are taking forever! I've got windows xp / norton 2004 / adsl connection and have done the whole disable firewalls with no change .. i think it has something to do with that stinkin service pack 2 ... but i've tried all with no luck. Please please please... if you know of something / anything that can help..please post!!!  |
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March 20th, 2006
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October 13th, 2006
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| guessing firewall is the problem caught a second breath, still not getting full connectivity, tried opening windows firewall but got message that could not display,service is not running, and how can i tell if i'm running sp2. I have had so much problem with this computer lately with pop ups and... that i have had it wiped clean twice and at this point not sure if i ever reinstalled sp2. I did test and id checked ok and also went into the tools on LW and the pnp was clicked. so where do i go from here |
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March 11th, 2007
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 lime wire p2p just will work for me htt Ihave used lw For Three years Had min.amount of troble with it till the past 3 month's My pcIs As Follows 1 - Windows XP Home Edt. Ser Pack 2 2- Windows fire wall is disabled Have mcafee installed & up to date 3 - My Pc Is a gateway 9310 With in tell pent. 4 prosser with 512 MB RAM. 4 - 78% free Space on Hard drive 5 - My Connection Is With net commander ISP high speed Digital cable as far as i know they are no blocks on P2P Servers with my net commander. 6- As for Modem And Router Brand Name I Dont Know That. 7 - I am connecting From My House Thru my cable modem From Netcommander. 8 - The LW that i am trying to use is 4-12-10 with java 1.5.0 9 - CommuniComm Services Tazewell Tn 10 -Did the simple test by going to www.3.limewire.com:6346 The test page can up and said your test worked 11 -I am not Shareing The connection With no one or Have no other P2P Software Installed. 12 -No mater what i try to do it Still Shows a brick in frount of little globe limewire's interface 13 - The only modem that i can find is it say P C I soft Data fax Moden If I knew wher and what to look for Might Be Able to find Driver or Router Names And dicriptions. Can any one help me with this Thank you Black Star Yes My macafee Security Center Has Fire wall and it is set to allow all lime wire Fuctions I Just Dont Know . Wonder if Problem Could Be in Windows service pak 2 partly blocking Lw ???????? I have Striped it out of pc and re installed it it still will not connect to net work. i to have since found out that Isp is not Blocking My cable service . In any way that would cause My Problem On . And every p2p file sharing prograhm i put in my pc will not connect. I have Had these prograhms installed (1) MP 3 Rocket ( 2) Phex ( 3 ) Frostwire ( 4 ) Gnucleus ( 5 )Lime wire ( 6 ) ares all of These will not connect With Exception of ( 7 ) Shareaza when i installed it it Said that windows Xp Ser. Pk 2 Or Some other Environment Was Pairtly BlockingRestricting. Num Of Connections attempted at once. Shareaza will connect to net work But it is so so slow It Took 2 Hr & 42 Min. to download 1 song Just dont know what is wrong I am one that likes to Down load music I have in my lime wire Library 765 songs and other files app 200 or so i am not a free loader so to say just wish i could get it working, Now I have tried Bear Share & I Mesh Where you have to pay monthly fee They connect fine no problem with them. Do not have them installed now but did at one time. Thanks John Wilmoth |
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May 25th, 2007
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| help! i havent been able to connect to limewire since i had to upgrade to sp2...i am told that it is currently connecting to the network and will not return any results...it worked great before i did this...i cannot get around my firewall and only have 1 bar of connectivity...i have tried opening ports and have read up and down this forum...im running windows xp and a gateway m520...can anyone help me with this? im sad |
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May 26th, 2007
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| colebug Hi. System details - help us to help you Please. Recently there's been a problem with people not providing enough details about their setup - despite being asked again & again. So let's make it easy for everyone...the details that we need if we're going to be able to help with complex problems are: Cut n paste Just these Questions,put your answers in bold text Thank You. 1. what OS version (eg: Windows 98, XP,OSX, Vista) ? 2. What firewalls you have ? 3. How much ram ? 4. Hard Disk space available ? 5. Connection type (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.) ? 6.Modem what brand name & model numbers ? 7.Router brand name & model numbers ? 8. Where are you trying to connect from (house, apartment complex, school, student accommodation, work, etc.) ? 9. What version,LimeWire & Java, are you using. Go to L/W's Help/About L/W, THIS show both LW & Java version.? 10. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider) ? 11. Do this test click here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ should say 'Your test worked!. What happens ? 12. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. 13. Is this your 1st try at LW, or is this a new problem with an experienced user.? 14. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface ? 15. Have you given full permissions for LimeWire to pass through your Firewall ? 16. XP users, Please state XP firewall on or off.? 17. In Start & remove Programs, Is this update Installed, "Security Update for Windows XP (KB931261)" ? If Windows Updates are not seen, Tick the box at top of page, (show updates) 18. Are you using Manual Port faward in LimeWire OR UPnP ? You can check HERE, IN LimeWire Go, Tools/options/advanced/firewall Config These are all contained within the sticky Connection problems? Check here first! but possibly some people are getting a bit confused or lost when we direct them to this sticky & ask them to provide their details. This information can be vital For instance, some ISPs are known for blocking p2p/throttling bandwidth, some connection devices are known for being unreliable in certain situations. So please, help us to help you & provide as much info as you can. If you're new to LW or new to computers & aren't sure how to answer some questions, or don't know what an ISP or router is - just say so. Nobody's going to yell at you:wink: Even if you can't answer all the questions in one go...don't worry. Do the best you can & we'll take it from there. __________________ Peace.
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August 15th, 2007
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 wow! I didn't even know it was the sp2 that screwed up my limewire. All I knew was that one day it just refused to connect. Haha - I had reinstalled limewire, deleted every file in my shared folder, deactivated all my firewalls and antivirus/spyware programs, and basically made my computer an open invitation to anything on the the web - and limewire still refused to connect. But I came to this forum and thought, hey, maybe my computer updated itself or something (cause it does that, so thanks a lot b. gates). And I opened those two ports the first post in this thread said to open and TA-DA! It worked! Thanks a lot!!!!  ! |
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