This is an outrage!

I have feverishly tried to get limewire to connect. I am using a G3, with 9.2 installed. It starts to connect to the network , but then decide it does not want to . Could this be a firewall problem. or will bearshare work. Help?


Perkel
operkel@mac.com

All I know is that I love Limewire but haven't been able to successfully connect in about a month. It's very discouraging.

Unregistered: router.limewire.com has been up and running better than ever since Sunday. Perhaps you have a configuration problem. Do you have entries in your quick-connect hosts lists on the connections tab? Are you running a recent version of LW? Is your keep-alive>0? Are you behind a very restrictive firewall?

Its a bummer some of you are still experiencing connection problems. I suffered from this until about 6 days ago. Now it stays connected most of the time (not always, though).

I have played many games to make this work, but it appears that the most important thing was to make sure that every host in the autoconnect list is up. EVERY host. I would think that limewire would just skip a down host, but this does not appear to be the case for me. At the very least the behavior is non-deterministic.
Right now I have connect4.bearshare.net, connect1-3.gnutellanet.com and gnutella-again.hostscache.com in the list.
I also select "prefer autoconnect hosts". I have very little faith in discovered hosts and clear out the gnutella.net file every time I restart. Similarly, if I see a bunch of hosts with the status of "connecting..." for longer than a minute (less when I feel impatient), I remove them. This brings in a set of new hosts for limewire to try. Sometimes this is just a cat-and-mouse game, but at least I see limewire working.
Occasionally, I will check out www.gnufrog.com, and add one of those machines under "Connected Hosts" (Check the port, its not always 6346)

This has been working for the last 6 days, meaning that I am able to download and upload, and usually have between 1000 and 3000 hosts on my connections tab. During busy times of the day (10am - 7pm ET), the number of hosts can fluctuate wildly.

I like gnutella networking a lot, but I fear the problems we are all experiencing are related to an inherent scalability problem with the current design. I won't bore you with the details, but, mathematically, the current design is far less than ideal (Trust me, I am being extremely kind). I hope that the wizards that created it are working on the next generation. BTW, I am not talking about LimeWire here, I am talking about whats underneath.

For the past 2 weeks I have been totally unable to connect. None of the advice given in this forum has made any difference. I've even scrapped LimeWire, reinstalled it, and nothing. I use 'proven' hosts from GnuFrog.com and get nothing. All of the bearshare hosts do not connect either. Someone please help me.

Ok I am new to this and I have read this entire thread and none of it seems to answer my question.

I downloaded the latest version, everything went fine no error messages. When I opened the program and tried to connect nothing happened. I looked in my connections and there aren't any. I have five in my autoconnect hosts box but nothing in my connected hosts box. When I try to move them autoconnect to connected hosts it doesn't work. I click add and nothing happens. Please help me.

Thanks in advance

Thanks for the info.

I can never get connected. I recently downloaded the new version and it still doesn't work. Last version worked for a while but I still had trouble connecting at first. Also where the heck is the chat on this thing.

I recently downloaded limewire because a good friend has it and i think it's the coolest program i've ever messed with. But i can't get any hoasts. How do i get started?