I eventually fixed this on my own. Somehow it was my modem blocking these ports.!!!! All is set and I can connect just fine.

For you people that are with comcast I have found out that they are starting to throttling P2P traffic as of late.Good news, good news, right? Nope, not really. What they're going to do instead is throttle all file transfers for high-usage consumers.

What Tony Warner, Comcast's chief technology officer Told the WSJ (paid subscription required) is that rather than throttle P2P, Comcast will throttle all traffic for those high-usage customers. Of course, as with Comcast bandwidth caps, the exact definition of "high" wasn't elaborated upon.

So, as we move toward more services that require high usage, such as IPTV, Hulu, Netflix's streaming service, iTunes movie rentals, and the like - ISPs are telling us "don't use so much." How can this conundrum be resolved?
Simple, unfortunately. It seems likely that ISPs will begin to move en masse toward the tiered structure that Time-Warner Cable is trying out. The "all-you-can-eat" accounts will - though it will take some time - eventually peter out, if the trend continues

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Some time's i just want to throw my computer out the window

I had no idea IP's were blocking ports. I don't do much downloading anymore, no time. But today, I had some time...so I went to Drumbeat first and it wouldn't connect, so I went to try LW and it wouldn't connect either

For the past two hours I've been reading post here and troubleshooting LW doing what people say to do in the posts.

One topic suggested downloading Frostbite to see if it didn't at first, then I read in their forum that you need JSE 5.0 so I went to Utility folder and changed JAVA over to JSE 5.0. and it connected.

I tried both LW and DB after changing it and neither one worked. I probed all ports while apps running (LW, DB, FB) all were open but only FrostBite connected. I went to Frostbite and checked the port and changed LW to that port. it wouldn't connect.

All of a sudden at 5pm LW connects with ports 6346 and 12856 the FB port. Drumbeat also able to connect with its orignial port of 6699 hadn't tried any changes to it because I was working on LW issue. Drumbeat has no more Forum for help.

What this tells me is that it is my ISP Road Runner/Time Warner that have set time restrictions on usage. Or there is something else really strange going on that is affecting my PSP software.

Just thought I'd add my findings

Nas

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.

I run DSL through Verizon and am having a problem too.. I (dont yell at me) tried to use Kazaa and Blubster to see if I was able to use them too... NOPE still says I am behind a firewall and am unable to download... This is really getting frustrating to say the least. I have called Verizon but they said my modem doesn't have a firewall and I have none on my computer... So I dont know. But I am about at the end of my rope

That doesn't mean anything regarding your ability to use Limewire. That's just the standard "If we catch you, you're screwed" message. The only thing that actually seems to be prevented is registering a domain to your assigned IP number. (You could of course assign a domain to your Personal Web Page space though)

As far as my experience, Comcast doesn't actually block any ports, ot filter P2P in any way. The only thing they do is state that doing anything with P2P is naughty, by doing so you're supporting the terrorists, and you will go to hell.

OK, so I'm paraphrasing.

OK, so I'm paraphrasing a LOT...