I'm also an OOL user in Brooklyn (Kensington area), and ALL of my P2P clients stopped working since the last weekend after the OOL internet service was down for an upgrade.


After the last-weekend OOL upgrade:

LimeWire cannot connect;

eMule cannot connect;

BearShare cannot connect;

various other P2P programs that I've downloaded to see if they will connect, CANNOT CONNECT.


So the story that OOL reps give us about OOL not having anything to do with us not being able to connect to P2P programs is BULLSHIT!!

I been having this limewire problem also, I live in brooklyn, IM with Optimun Online. I am tyring that new thing with getting a IP address from SecureIX. Now my problem is that I followed the directions on how to optain it and all, but when I click connect to connect to the secureix, it stays at connecting to Secure blah blah then I get an error saiyng:

Error 800: UNable to establish the VPN Connection. THe VPN server may be unreachable, or security parameters may not be configured properly for this connection.

Does anyone know whats the deal with this? I ddin't touch any of the configuration and stuff so I don't know maybe if thats why? plz help! thanks!

WOOHHH!!! u gotta pay for this to use this secure thingy?? I went to my account on there page and this is what it says:

Email/Username:
Password:
Account Type: Dynamic IP Account
Credit Card: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-
Account Balance: $10.00
Assigned IP: *
Auto Bill: YES
Status: ACTIVE


WTF?? I aint paying **** and how would they even be able to bill me and w/e? if all they got is my email address?? wtf!?

please send me an email on letting me know what going on, i have optimum online and my limewire keeps disconnecting on me. will i always face this problem? this never happened to me before, why it is happening now?......BIG QUESTION....how do i connect myself back to it when it detects a firewall?

It says on the website that there service is free untill the testing is over with the betta version. BETA means that it is a new program.

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ooo sweet, phew LOL, thanks guys, well it finally connected and now I am able to use limewire again, sweet!!! now just a few things, once this beta is over, what will we have to use then? and since this is proven fact that this method works now for us OOL users, is it a fact that optimun online blocked P2P or something? Also, how does this secure rom exactly work? right when I connected I lost internet for a few seconds, so what it did was replace my IP with there IP for this temp use until I disconnect from there server?

OOL definitely blocked P2P services. My eMule, BearShare, LimeWire cannot connect. Various other P2P programs I've downloaded to see if they would connect, and none of them could.

BTW, Kill Crazy, did you see the "Do not dial the initial connection" option when making a new connection? I could not find it.