For anyone on plusnet..... The homesurf accounts DO BLOCK LIMEWIRE no doubts and they are not open for arguments on the matter. (trust me hate mail dusnt help) ARRGG isnt it so angry..... Dont even think the proxy workarounds help!!! woohoo thats kool

While I'm using a school's LAN, the solutions that may apply to all may apply to us at schools as well. I welcome your insights and solutions.

Recently, the part of our school, the LAN available to most students and faculty nights and weekends, upgraded(?) their equipment and apparently software. We have moved up from 10MB/second to 100MB/second, though services like LimeWire and SoulSeek no longer connect, and we have some sort of Internet disconnection every 10 minutes too. That asside, is there a port range not usually associated with P2P that may go unrecognized by most ISPs that we can use instead of the conventional 6349 and 6346?

I'm not a pooter geek, and other than having ports conspicuously available for assigning, I don't know Jack O' Lantern about port forwarding or hinding, or lateralling or whatever. I do know that when I'm connected to LimeWire, I'm helping you by offering my school's Internet II and humongous bandwidth as an ultrapeer for your downloads. Please help me solve this connection concern so I can share evenings and weekends with you all, and we can all get more done as well.

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".)

There has been a report that Verizon is now blocking port 6346. This is yet to be confirmed as a widespread issue.

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 and was able to use Limewire last night without any troubles so I dont think they are blocking.

Apparently Telenor, Norway is reported by one user to block ports. Details here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=38866

Tiscali have capped p2p due to a court order

not sure but i think tiscali are blocking /filtering limewire was getting dl speeds of up to 60 kbps two days ago since then cant get above 3kbps

It looks as if Kornet (Kornet.net) in Korea is blocking post 6346 as well.