Error Message
 

Why am I getting this Error Message?

your machine does not appear to have an active Internet connection or a firewall is blocking LimeWire from accessing the internet.
Limewire will automatically keep trying to connect you to the network unless you select "Disconnect" from the file menu.

It seems that I can't use LimeWire / BearShare or MP3 Rocket.

Everything was working fine for about 3 months...now I can't even connect.

My Connection Status is nill...and I now show a FireWall???

What is going on???

Who is your ISP

I use Optimum Online

MysticWolf please supply all the details I asked you to earlier via pm. We need to ascertain whether it's 100% the fault of the ISP or not. Let's take a close look at your set up to see if there's any other possibilities.

Also, I just went to the Optimum Web Site to try and get help.

The ASSURED me that it was not them blocking P2P files. They said to contact the program developer.

I did not see a PM from you...

Shifting the blame of course! lol :D Well if they're illegally capping or blocking or shaping the network without prior notification then they will lie beyond their teeth. They can be reported if they are found out to be cheating users without prior notification. I believe if they are guilty they face a stiff fine by the government regulatory body! It's happened before with at least one other ISP in USA. The same would happen in my country - they'd also risk losing their licence to be an ISP here.

What's more they could face class action by their clients in a personal sueing case for breach of contract amongst many other things. They would be liable.

MysticWolf

Below are a couple of links you might want to check out the trouble is with your ISP not LimeWire.

LimeWire has not changed anything in the last few days and it worked on Optimum until the last few days maybe you should add it up 2+2 = 4 I would say the problem = Optimum

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=49547

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=49578

I found your PM and replied.

I'm just so fustrated that this is happening.

Press the user cp button above.

It looks like there are alot of people having the same problem with not being able to connect or having firewall problems.

Is this a recent issue with LimeWire users, or has this been going on for a while?

I saw those threads and I seem to be having the same problems they are. I just want to know what's going on.

Is it Me, My ISP, My Computer, My Router or just LimeWire in general???

Grrrrrr lol

I received your pm responses to my questions. You say you're using XP but you have no firewalls. Did you realise XP has its own firewall? Try configuring it as described here Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

You said you have both Motorola Surfboard , Linksys. Can you possibly find out the model numbers of each one? This will be most helpful to know exactly how you're set up. I would imagine if there's any issues with these devices, it will be with the Motorola. Linksys uses UPnP & is generally very reliable to use UPnP (allows a program to communicate directly with the router to open whichever ports are required ... if the program is UPnP capable.)

It is your ISP it appears they have started monitoring or shaping you Internet activity the lord gave me some links to this technology earlier you might want to take a look at the links below.

http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp

http://www.ipp2p.org/docu_en.html

It certainly doesn't look like LW's fault!

It just seems weird that all of these problems are poping up.



Also, I checked out my settings. Here they are

From LimeWire > Tools > Options > Advanced > Firewall Config

Listening Port:
Listen on Port : 24297

Router Configuration:
checked on Use UPnP

Your settings sound fine!!! Just as an experiment, try changing the listening port to these ones: 80, 443, 427, 20, 21, 22, 139, 548, 10000, 64049. That will mean changing it, pressing apply button. If it's trying to connect, go to File>Disconnect. Wait 60 secs, then File>Connect. Give it at least 15 mins for each one to try to connect. I must say I'm not sure whether you should just wait 60 secs or should quit LW, then re-launch between each port change. This last idea will be sure it's trying to connect thru the changed port.

OK I'll try those.

I'll let you know what happens...LOL

Thanx a Million for all the help :)

I'm having this problem as well, as you can tell from other posts, and i have tried so many ports. I highly doubt your settings are wrong, many people are starting to think it's optimum online's doing. Whether it be a mistake or what, they are claiming they aren't blocking p2p, so hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Mara, I beleive I saw an earlir post from you. It's funny how ALL us Long Island Optimum Online Users are having this problem....LOL

Partial quote from pm to MysticWolf: "Else change ISP's. Contact them & tell them you "KNOW" they are blocking you using a p2p filter. If they don't lift it, then you'll change ISP's. (I guess you could also tell them you know of many others in the same situation who are considering taking class group legal action against them & reporting them to the governing body.)

I'd be very interested to hear their response!"
It sounds to me like you lot should get together & 1. report the ISP to the particular regulatory body. 2. Put your cased to your ISP. 3. Consider court action against your ISP for breach of contract, false marketing, lying when inquiring, etc.

It was "last year" I saw the link to another USA isp being fined by the reg body so I'm not at this point sure who to contact. I can research it if you wish but you can prolly do that too.

I can assure you, you're more powerful as a combined group than individuals. Gov bodies will also take you more seriously! ;) Try to find others with same ISP & problems.

I tried what you said about changing Port Numbers...still not working

Last gasp is A Fix for those whose ISP's block Limewire pages 1 - 3 which have links to alternative instructions. But you need to be patient if you're going to try this. You will need to try many, many proxy no.'s before you find one that works so don't give up quickly. The feedback to me is you need to try many before one works & even then you may need to find new ones after a while.

Best advice, if the option is available, change ISP's. But I'd hope you don't let this ISP get away with this so easily. Please report them "at least". Please follow the suggestions made in this thread. There's sure to be many more out there in the wilderness who haven't approached the forum. And even then there's a no. who have. SO make contact with each other via pm, etc. & consider your options & check out each other's posts/threads.

I don't live in the USA (although I have rights to live & work there according to my mother), but I do have qualifications in international trade/business which includes international law. Whatever that means! lol :D But law of contract is much the same as much as the laws of USA. Muchu brothu (local consumer sales contract laws are just a variation upon this. National laws come 1st!)

yeah i chatted with someone at optonline and they also claimed that it was limewire's fault. and they were not filtering the default gnutella port. i was on hold for at least 20 minutes so i hung up and i'm going to wait until 9pm when my minutes are free and i'm going to give them a piece of my mind.

I dunno, i for one cannot seem to get any p2p programs to work at all. I know a few people that use opt online and their programs ARE working right now so i don't know what's going on. It seems there are more that it is not working though, seeing i mentioned it to a group of about 8 friends of mine and 5 of them said their limewire stopped working recently as well.

it's weird my azureus still works though, so i guess i'm pretty lucky.

Cablevision is trying to free up bandwidth I told by a tech who was running a cable line at my friend's house for OOL.

So what we can't use p2p now?

see my reply in another thread.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...160#post179160

It just seems weird that my neighbor across the street who uses satelite can connect and download from LimeWire...but yet I can't.

I have talked with OOL and they say it not them, but LimeWire that is not working.

When I told them that I was talking to over a dozen diffrent people in my area that use OOL to connect to the internet, and use LimeWire and they can't get a connection either, but other people who DO NOT use OOL CAN connect to LimeWire and ARE able to connect and download MP3's that it can't be LimeWire because it is Working.

They told me that my situation had been elevated to a higher level.

I think it's all a bunch of BULL...but we'll see

did u optimum guys check out my solutiion to the problems lemme know if it worked cuz it apparently worked for

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=49778

Unfortunately i think it is Optimum Online, because my limewire stopped working about a week ago, and so did my friend, who lives down the block from me. I didn't change anything, and i do have a firewall, but it always worked with the firewall. I even turned off both of my firewalls and configured both of them to allow limewire, but it still didn't work. If anyone knows anything further please let me know.

Well I have just about tried EVERYTHING everyone has posted...and still no luck.

At this point I'm starting to believe that it IS OOL that is preventing me from downloading anything from this site.

Especially since I had my neighbor across the street who does not use OOL but DSL, and he got on and downloaded a song with no problem.

Wilbur you should only have one active firewall. Two running together 'can' cause problems. 2 active firewalls issue Both MS & other firewall devs say the same thing.

MysticWolf,Wilbur

I do not know why you would believe it is anything besides optimum. Take a look at the evidence just in this forum about a week ago people using optimum were able to use LimeWire with no problem now if you are still running the same version of LimeWire then why did it stop all of the sudden for so many people.

Optimum first stated they were not filtering or blocking LimeWire and that it was A problem with LimeWire. Really? H'm lets think about it nothing has changed from LimeWires side then why did so many Optimum users start having a problem at the same time. Answer = Optimum.

Next statement from Optimum we seem to be having a problem with a conflict with LimeWire. H'm why it seems from what people have posted that no P2P software is working on Optimum?
Answer = Optimum is filtering or blocking P2P software.

Next statement from Optimum (Quote from techman01) (They are esclating the issue and are going to see what the problem is.

They recently upgraded Long Island to 15mbdown/2mb up and if u pay xtra 30mbdown/2mb up......so maybe this upgrade has something to do with it.

Doesnt make sense though as they are allowing ppl to host their own web servers/email servers with the 30/2 service...)

Looks like to me they are trying to make excuses and point people in another direction so people wont suspect they are possibly in breach of contract.

If it were me I would call them up and tell them to cancel my service that I was switching to another ISP that does not block or filter P2P software and where I get what I want and what I paid for. I would tell them I have no need for a Internet service that I can not use as I wish and that there service just will not work for me.

Anyway as I said I do not know why you would think anything else.

I am going to try calling them again tomorrow.

I am going to haunt these people.

And if it is them blocking P2P...are they allowed to do that???

And if they are...should they mention that to members?

It should be in the contract if it states it in there then it is legal if it is not then it is not legal.

hmmmmm...I don't know if I have a contract on paper from them.

You can probably find it on there web site

I'll have to take a look.

How much different is LimeWire from WinMX?

We were using WinMX for years before we discovered LimeWire....and we Never had a problem with WinMX.

We have only been using LimeWire for about 4 months and we really liked it.

But if optimum is indeed blocking p2p how come some of their users can go into limewire without a problem

What users???

It is called filtering or shaping I believe they monitor your usage if you use to much bandwith they can cut you off or limit you. The links below may help.


http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp


http://www.ipp2p.org/docu_en.html

hello everyone

I will let you know that its a problem between limewire and optimum online. My fiancee who has ool and a few friends with ool are able to connect. Its probably on certain nodes that are having problems. OOL is doing some upgrades so that could be it. We'll just have to wait and find an answer and see what happens..but definitely noones computers or firewalls is the issue..i redid my whole pc, did not isntall firewalls and did not connect my router..and no gnutella programs work at all...

Also ool is not blocking p2p networks and or filtering people..you may getting capped or blocked if you abuse it and upload of files between a certain amount of time. So ur not being blocked otherwise i would fall into that category and i work for ool and i know im not capped or blocked..

The problem IS coming from OOL...they just told me.

Check my other post.

ToS:
http://www.optonline.net/Cservice/Ar...icle%3D1993853

So Called "Answer Center" (seems like it's written for people who aren't tech saavy at all and you'll probably need to call to get the right answer):
http://www.optonline.net/Support

check here

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