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Thanks Bob,

I've only been with virgin a month, and havent had too many probs yet, may give it a few weeks but may keep a look out for other isps. We're on the max plan. Did you get hit by the 50 quid charge for cancelling within 6 mths? Im leaving at the end of the year, so not sure whether to hold out or change.

shan53168

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Did you get hit by the 50 quid charge for cancelling within 6 mths? I'm leaving at the end of the year

No, because I started using Virgin sometime ago, back in the dim a distant dial up days, so I was not caught by their current range of restrictions.

UK Bob

I'm convinced that BT (British Telecom) are restricting use of P2P during the day. I can't get the usual Gnutella ports (6436 - 6348) to work at all, and shifting to another port sometimes only seems to work for a short while before downloads either slow to a crawl or stop altogether. Other times other ports seem OK albeit downloads are slower than normal. From about midnight I can download with no problem, mornings can be hit and miss. Other people I know who use BT and LW have noticed similar things.

There's nothing official and BT have a dreadful customer service helpdesk that it's not worth the effort contacting them. But this problem has existed for a while now

HOL traffic shaping

adding Hellas On Line (HOL)....blocks all p2p activity to rediculus speeds...

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Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings

There's many ways an isp or business such as a university can block or filter p2p. It may apply to speeds, or blocking of ports or programs or making certain p2p clients illegal (unauthorised) on their system.

Endless Splendors check thru the proxies options b/c there's mention of various ports you might be able to use there. Another way to find out if a port is blocked is to test various port no.'s
This simple test is for port 6346. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? If you can't get the page loaded then port 6346 is blocked.
Another simple test. Keep LW open!!! & then, using your browser go here: http://www.grc.com/port_6346.htm (Press Probe this port button) Does it say open or closed? If closed then set the test for a different port number. ie: type in the port no. in the space next to the jump button then press jump. Then do the test of the new port no. (perhaps best if your firewall is temporarily disabled or test with it (a) on & (b) off, same applies for NAT modems/routers to test directly by (c) by-passing these devices & (d) also with them.) Another test is to use http://koti.mbnet.fi/gfactory/ctest/ where you can test various ports but likewise you need to have LW open at the time for some strange reason!!!

(If the result comes back as Stealth then: There are only two valid responses a port can give when it is scanned: "open" and "closed". A port is considered "stealth" when it doesn't respond to a request at all. All the GRC port scanner does is fire packets out at your ports. If your port answers back, it will be listed as either "open" or "closed". if your firewall prevents your computer from answering back to GRC's port scanner, the port will be listed as "stealth".)

Ok, hoop - jumped. What is stealth supposed to mean?
(Edit) ok, sorry. I think I get it NOW. All I had to do was actually notice your fine print and read it many times. Between that and me, well, it took some doing.....

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Originally Posted by midnight_blue

I now know that BT are blocking p2p, I've come back to use Limewire for the first time in nearly a month and it's the same response - I can't connect.

I think it's time to add BT to the list of ISP's that are blocking Gnutella. Ah, well...

Try at different times of the day. Some ISP's in the UK are blocking or shaping p2p only during certain times of the day (peak periods.) UKBobboy01 knows of some UK ISP's that don't shape p2p bandwidth at all.

Also, try a different port to connect through. Try one between 49152 - 65535. A good one to try is 64049. ie: go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change both the connection & listening ports. Actually just try changing the listening port initially. If no good, change connection port also.

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Originally Posted by lalunadeladia

I am also experiencing the same connection issues where LW just says "Connecting..." and never does anything more. I've tried all sorts of things mentioned in the posts, and I think maybe verizon is blocking port 6346. Is that possible? I've also tried using proxies to get around that, and it's not working.
What am I to do?? Lime wire was working fine a couple days ago.

I have Verizon Fios and I'm having alot of problems with gnutella. I was using bearshare and the performance was getting worse and worse. Certain files never work or the download will start and run slowly and then die. I find that small files work more often. Also if I were to que up maybe 50 large files and then leave my computer on for a day or two eventually I get some of them but not all.

I thought perhaps the version of bearshare was outdated so I tried limewire (which I also know to be clean of spyware - bonus) but limewire doesn't work at all. I pick files with lots of sources and a four star quality but ti doesn't matter. They just sit there for every and either never connect or say more sources needed which it never finds. I never see any uploads going out either. Bearshare always worked with uploads disabled or if I enabled it a ton of files would upload just fine. If I turn the search monitor on in limewire I see incoming searchs and I can search files but that's all I can do.

I have a routed but my p2p computer is set as the DMZ.

What I don't understand is if all they're doing is blocking the port why I can't just change it and have it work. I've tried changing the ports in limewire but it doesn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings

What are the defaults? I changed mine and want to go back (I didn't try changing them seperately) but I don't want to reset all my settings to default. Thanks.

Default is port 6346. At least that is the "official" gnutella port. But if you were connecting via UPnP then it may select any port it finds available.