I've been using Limewire for quite sometime without any trouble, but of late I'm unable to Connect to the network to the network at all during the day, it won't connect beyond the first green bar,I only get fully connected to the network after 7 or 8pm I had to download the installer for the latest version at night as it repeatly failed during the day.

XP Pro, Zone Alarm, 256 RAM, 50 GB disk space available Dial up,
Connected from home

I've tried this test when fully connected to the network : http://www3.limewire.com:6346 and got this error message :The page cannot be displayed.

My net speed is 48kbps and I get a download speed of 6kb when fully connected to the network .. is this all I should expect
Could you please recommend any other Spyware free P2P Programs

Any suggestions ?

Thanks Hobo for the info about the KBps part, but I didn't have any problems getting connected during the day, till about a month ago and now everthing's changed .

What about that test at http://www.3.limewire.com:6346/ ..Why is the test failing ?

With regard to Broadband , there's just ONE Provider where I'm located and I do have some issues with them, and I'm not the only one.

Opps sorry I make a mistake too, I don't get the test failed error at http://www.3.limewire.com:3646/ just the conventional error when a site won't open "The page cannot be displayed" .Yes I'm able to log onto www.limewire.com with ease.

Just as an experiment, try changing your LW port during the daytime to see if that makes a difference to connecting. Go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & change the listening port from 6346 to one of the following: 1111, 3500, 4008, 1203, 10000, 15189, 80, 22817, 443, 34599, 40475, 64049

You'd need to press apply after making the change. Then go to LW's menu bar, File>Connect. Give it at least 15 -30 mins to try to connect. Try each of the ports suggested.

It may well be a local traffic issue but let's see if there's some kind of port blocking happening during normal office hours.

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Thanks Lord, your experiment seems to have worked, I changed the listening port to 64049 and LM gets fully connected with a minute Hope it continues to do so

Praise the Lord, Lord of the Rings.

Hmm I wonder if your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is filtering (blocking port 6346) the gnutella network during times when businesses are needing the most bandwidth. Some ISP's struggle to maintain bandwidth during peak times. And businesses/companies pay big money for their internet requirements. That may explain the situation & since port 6346 is the official default port for Gnutella.

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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
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