I have installed Limewire on one computer that is on the local LAN (address 10.0.0.100). To connect to Internet from this computer, one must setup every Internet application to use HTTP proxy at 10.0.0.1:3128. The proxy is Squid v2.5 (http://www.squid-cache.org/) and I know its external IP (say, 100.101.102.103). The following things work: browsers, FTP clients (both active and passive modes) and ICQ. I have tested a couple of P2P clients (Limewire and eMule) and neither works.

Here are my settings for Limewire: proxy options HTTP proxy 10.0.0.1 port 3128, firewall config listen on port 3128, manual port forward 3128. The Connections tab shows the list of UPs, but all of them timeout. Anybody has an idea or is it totally hopeless?

These might be worth a look at:

1. A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions.

2. http proxies

3. A Successful http Proxy Solution

4. Another Insight proxy solution

Some other potential ports to use: 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 80, 20282, 22817, 443, 34599, 40475.



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Thank you very much! The solution seems to be http tunnel. What it does: there will be three proxy servers. The first one is to be installed on the local computer, it makes all connections to be going to a certain remote host on port 80. The second proxy server is on my LAN, which permits such connections. Finally, the remote host acts as a third proxy server and forwards the connections to the actual destinations.

The remote proxy server has to be provided and there is one such service available:
http://www.your-freedom.net/
I will try it and will let you know. It is probably going to be very slow, but anyway...

Ok, it works, although I had to configure YF manually rather than to use the wizard. (I had to disallow the use of DNS.) But the website has a pretty good FAQ, so it wasn't too hard. The connection is 64 kbps.

Fantastic news. The speeds you quoted, is that 68 kbps or 68 KB/s? There's a major difference. kbps is bits per second, & KB/s is bytes per second. Divide 8 into kbps to give KB/s which is what LW uses. I suspect you're actually getting KB/s right?

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
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It is 64 kbit/s = 8 kB/s for a free account, like ISDN. Paid account would give me much larger bandwidth, indeed. Their current rates are 32 kB/s for ˆ30/year, 512 kB/s for ˆ95/year and unlimited bandwidth for ˆ200/year. Anyway, it works just fine even with the free account.

just wondering what the yf settings where because im using it now bitcommet works but not limewire. your freedom website followed instructions but cant figure out this part of the instructions wtf

" Router configuration is very important for getting Limewire to work properly with Your-Freedom and for obtaining a fast connection. Select the 'Manual port forward' radio button. Then configure both ports (inbound port and router port) to one of the YF port numbers assigned to you (check out the Profile panel in the YF client when you are connected -- TotalFreedom only). If you haven't got any ports assigned choose "do nothing". Then, if you have ports assigned, configure a server port forward in the YF client's ports panel: use the same port number as in Limewire for both server port and local port, and set the host to "localhost". "