we got to figure out what is going on...im e-mailing them now

I am very interested in hearing the result of this. I've been using optimum online for 6 months and everything was fine. then last week (about a week after I added optimum voice to my service) I suddenly can't connect.

I tried all the suggestions on this site as well as the Limewire site. Nothing I did seems to be working. I'm in Brooklyn, but Long Island is still up and running. So what am I paying 49.95 a month for???

Ask Optimum what you are paying $49.95 a month for. Then tell them you want to cancel your service because they are not providing you with what they advertise High Speed Internet. If all of the people started canceling their service because they block P2P it wouldn't take long before they quit doing it. When enough people complained before and told the to cancel their service they fixed the problem

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That's a great idea with one major flaw (for me at least). There is no other provider where I live, so if I drop OOL then I have nothing. DSL is not an option for me as I use VOIP for my phone service.
If anyone knows of an alternative provider, I'll drop them in a second.

Well I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who is experiencing problems with this provider....they are acting up like Verizon Wireless (who just can't handle the number of people subscribed to thier DSL). So far my connection has to be reconnected (manually) everytime I open the program.

In New York each borough (manhattan, brooklyn, bronx..etc) are separated into mini areas. In each area only ONE cable provider is able to compete for your business. So basically if you want cable you can only use the Cable company that is given your area.. so much for the idea of competition. Anyway, Last night I changed my port and got up to 2 bars of connection. I still displayed the brick wall even thoguh all firewalls I put up were disabled. After downloading one song my system was hit by a million pop ups that said "ERROR" and explaining that I had a firewall.

I've been told on this site that optimum has started blocking P2P networks. So I'd say, we should barrage them with complaints. If you go to their website there is a "chat live" button you can click (after noon)

My P2P service was stopped last week. I've had optimum for 6 months and a fwe weeks ago got Optimum voice.. then suddenly a week later my connection is blocked. To me this seems like a concerted effort by optimum to start shutting down P2P connections.

Checking in...

Im having the same problem,im from brooklyn.

I managed to connect last night with full 5 green bars but i wasnt able to download any songs,it constantly said it needs more sources... later on the evening it went down to 3 bars and then firewall was detected.

i even upgraded to limewire pro just to get some tech support! i am in brooklyn and have optimum as well and for the last 2 weeks have been trying to figure out why it keeps saying firewall is detected when i have done everything i could to fix it. This is a really pain in the ***.....is anyone using something else in the mean time??? how do i get my music??

I just got of internet chat help with optimum online and they are claiming (of course) that it has nothing to do with them. They said they don't block ports. He asked specifically which port i was trying to use and I couldn't remember off hand. anyway, was wondering has anyone spoken to LIMEWIRE about this? What do they say? Is it coincidental that this happened at the same time that they started pusshing their upgrade?