Im at COLLEGE so am i screwed?
 

Im stuck here at college. So does that mean I cannot use limewire. It connects, and then I download at like 1k, then it just stops. I run Windows XP, and well its a new laptop. I really wish i could download so being here wouldnt be so boring. Help please

Cajun

You may be being filtered where did you get you version of LW from did you DL it from P2P net.

dont worry.. we're attempting to get tor to bypass college firewalls for peer to peer traffic, however our problem is that the tor servers are blocking outbound 6346/tcp connections :(

I got my limewire from www.Limewire.com

its weird that i can download for a short period of time, and it goes really slow.

any suggestions. Its hellaboring over here.=)

You can try the preference folder fix in the link below but if you got your version from the official site I drought that is the problem. The odds are you are filtered.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

so how do i fix the filter

Check out the link below.


http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=44200

you do know that you can change ports right?

ultracross,

i haven't yet figured out a setting yet to work 100% yet. the problem is to get tor setup, you need access to your router. most of these people don't have access, they're at college, or at work. so i gotta find a way to get a port open by default on a firewall.

then i have to make sure the same port is open on a tor's hosts firewall too. its becoming a slow pain in the ***. it worked once when a tor host didnt have a firewall or had the gnutella port open. however, in the tor console window, i noticed a majority of hosts did block 6346/tcp.

sounds like no one knows how to fix the problem. Alright thanks anyway

A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which has a link to alternative instructions. This is a small possibility of working. Also changing ports.

how do i change ports? because i'm at college and have the same exact problem as that kid.

i neeeeed to be able to download music, and limewire is the best.




i wonder if this tidbit makes any difference- the blue star songs download really really really fast, like 250 kb/s fast.


but then everything else crawls thens stops like the poster of this thread said.

blue start connection quality are ethernet speeds. it means that other people on your lan is sharing those files :)

where r the peeps that work at limewire. they suppose to monitor thiis. i want help. this place is hellaboring

Well thanks for the help we gave! :rolleyes: Here's an example of how a p2p bandwidth shaper can work: Bandwidth Shaper Sample - typical of how some ISP's use it (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing such as the Gnutella network. Perhaps if you searched your topic a little instead of expecting hand held answers you might find an answer.

And see if you can use a proxie or even try opening port 6347.

well finally
 

After messing around with Limewire, and reading these post, i finally came to somewhat of a solution. Under firewall in the LW options i chose "Do Nothing" which is not recommended. Limewire connected finally, and searches came up. YAY. But i was really limited. I could only download from people on my network(they had a blue star). And not many searches came up. Aleast right now, I am connected. Some Yellow Star searches came up, but i cant connect to them, and not alot of search results.

But now, who knows how i can better fix this. LW finally says im not behind a firewall. So why isnt it running perfectly?

Probably because the school is blocking or filtering P2P networks. Have you tried to change listening ports on LW. I do not know if it will do any good or not but you can give it a try. With LW open click on tools/options/advanced/firewall config you can change the port there.

i tryed to use manuel ports. But i couldnt even connect. Anything else?

Sorry that is all I have.