Ok, here's my problem

[Tainted Soul]

It says a fire wall is blocking lime wire with the little wall over the world symbol, it says this even after i have turned my firwall off and the windows one also, the max speed it downloads at is 1kb, most of the time it just says 0kb, it will seach and find songs but then only downloads at stupid and pointless speeds, here is some information about my system incase you need this to help
>I run windows xp home edition
>I have a wireless edimax adsl router ( it used to work with old modem)
>I have talk talk broadband (Live in UK)
>anything else you need to know just ask, i am going to be sitting her watching this thred cos i weely weely need to be able to download..THNX
oh btw am not a pure techical person so i may need the dumbed down verson

thnx .....CHRIS xx

[wondering why]

Firstly welcome
Check this thread out and see if this applies to you and lets us know...
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...light=talktalk

[wondering why]

Also is your router in this group...
Edimax

AR-6024A
AR6024WGA
BR-6004Plus
BR-6104K
BR-6104P
BR-6104WB
BR-6204WG

[Tainted Soul]

ok the talk talk thing i dotn understand, tol du i wasnt techical, and the router issssssss ummmmmmmmm.......Edimax AR-7024WG-A 53E2500908 made in taiwan, :P tis what it says on bottem.

[wondering why]

Ok what they are saying in the thread that your ISP, talk talk shapes your ability to download from limewire between the hours of 9am to 1am, so in other words you will get really slow speeds between these hours...

With the modem I think there is a built in firewall, but it is not on the list I gave you....I will ask another member about the modem you have and I will get back to you...

[Tainted Soul]

omg you are right, cos i remember now that it works in teh nite late. you hgave found the problem, yey!!! tis there anyway i can get around this, tell talk talk to fuk off or sumthing?

[wondering why]

Lol you could try...
I still think the router has a firewall within it because of the wall in front of the globe...I've put the question out there to some of the other members, I'm just waiting a reply...

[wondering why]

Ok I've been told that there probably isn't much difference between the model you have and the one in the list...
I will give you a link to Port Forward this should fix your firewall issue
http://www.portforward.com/english/r...A/Limewire.htm

follow the steps the best you can, let us know how you go or if you run into any trouble...

[Tainted Soul]

hm, ok, that thing i did, i sed up a static Ip of what ever it was and then i tryed to do the nxt step and it got 2 confusing and teh ip in teh bar didnt do anythig, so i gave up...i will not be trying that again. becides teh filewalla in my router dusnt effect it i dont think cos even in teh middle of the nite it sill works, errr, is there any way just to get talk talk to let me use lime wire all the time?

[Lord of the Rings]

Have another look at the web page of your Edimax & look around the different sections. See if you can find an option for UPnP or Universal Plug & Play. If you can see such an option, make sure it's turned on. I just looked at the above link & your device does have UPnP. Click on advanced & you will see UPnP at the top of the list. Click on it. This is the alternative to forwarding a port. Make sure it's set to UPnP & is enabled. Have a look at the link Wondering Why gave you to see where Advanced & UPnP is.
Then open LW & go to LW's menu bar, Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewalls & tick UPnP. Save settings.

For this to work, you'll need to restart LW.
You might need to reboot your router also. Make sure you saved the settings in your Edimax.

By the way, setting your device up for UPnP is Much Much easier than port forwarding. It's not confusing I promise. Just look at the images in that link to see where everything is.