Okay, there are two possibilities. Either something is wrong with your network configuration or a firewall / proxy / your ISP deny you any connection to router4.limewire.com:6346.

In the latter case you can connect by downloading a gnutella.net file ( ftp://whitedragon.dyndns.org/gnutella.net ) and copying into your LimeWire directory (c:\program files\limewire on windows or ~/LimeWire on Linux)

I tried all that you suggested to BassMan and it did not help.

Where do you put the addresses from the ftp site? Just in a text file in the prog files? I cannot get anything.

For the record, it worked ok last night. My domain is insight.rr.com and they are not blocking.

I just came up and I didn't make any changes. Go figure.

Up until the July 1 limewire was doing just fine. no problems getting connected to hosts and staying connected. Since then I've been lucky to stay connected for a couple of minutes and then boom no more hosts. Every attempt at reconnecting fails except quitting the program and starting over again. I've tried all of the "fixes" listed here to no avail. Any other suggestions? My ISP is AOL.

I could be wrong but all things being equal your last sentence may be the answer -- A call to customer service might be helpfull... search this forum - this very question has come up elsewhere recently.

I'm not an AOL victim and I can't connect either. LW has worked on this pc, and I even think it has since I moved to 2.4.4Pro. I get a good Gnutella OK when telnetting, so my ISP isn't blocking me right? So then why no luck over the last week? If I change my keep approx _ conns up, I can watch the router.limewire.com, connect1 and an assortment of other hosts filter thru the Connections, but within maybe 10 seconds, they're all gone and I'm still disconnected.

I'm tempted to start digging thru the code, but I thought I paid for more than just ad-free software.

By the way, this all sounds like a the record industry conspiracy. But P2P should be a lot tougher to derail, shouldn't it?

-1 gunmen

All I can say is I have used 2.4.4 Pro since it was first realeased (April ?) with no problems - I am now using the beta 2.5.2 Pro with no problem other than the usual stuff... It might be a Limewire issue but I would tend to think not... have you tried any of the other clients... I like Shareaza as a second choice... maybe you can determin by using several clients whether it is napplication / system or ISP/Net issue.

Note 2.5.2Pro Beta is available form your Limewire Pro site... look at the bottom under Beta.

Good Luck

Thanks, I'll give the beta a try.

STARTUP ERROR

Java version 1.3.1_02 from Sun Microsystems Inc.

Windows 2000 v. 5.1 on x86

Free/total memory: 3733264/4128768



java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/java/util/collections/Random

at com.limegroup.gnutella.GUID.<clinit>(Unknown Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.SettingsManager.loadDefault s(Unknown Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.SettingsManager.<init>(Unkn own Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.SettingsManager.<clinit>(Un known Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.ResourceManager.<clinit >(Unknown Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Initializer.initialize( Unknown Source)

at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at RunLime.main(RunLime.java:77)



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I just downloaded limewire today again had downloaded before but it didnt work it was great! i even got to download 2 songs the all of a sudden the next 2 wouldnt and now it wont even connect .. ive been trying for months to get one of these music things working and fnallywhen i do it stops grr all of this is driving me nuts please help i tried adding the other connect4.gnutellanet.com or w.e. but it wont even let me i am leaving in 1 day to go on a "road trip" and was hoping to have some nice tunes to bring along DONT LET ME DOWN! torie