I cannot download anything at all or even get search results because it says my wireless router is blocking it. I even went through this 21 step "limewire enabling open network sharing" thing and took off my firewall and nothing is helping I'm very confused and very frustrated if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated!

What's your connection like (how many green bars)?? Don't turn off your software firewall, rather configure it to give LW access (only use 1 firewall, otherwise you'll run into trouble)
Firewall setup
If your connection is poor/nonexistant, do this test & post the result
http://www3.limewire.com:6346

You probably should read through this sticky, it has heaps of info about internal firewalls within routers & ways to overcome the problem (enabling UPnP & port forwarding)
Connection problems? Check here first!

If nothing within that sticky helps, post back with your details

OS(Win XP etc)
LW & Java version (help > about LW & you'll see)
Firewall you're using
Modem/router brand & model
ISP
Connection type (DSL etc)
Where you connect from (home, school etc)
Are you sharing a connection with other computers
Is this your first try with LW

ASC555 & Birdy

One of the worse things about using LW, which is not LW's fault, is that in order to get the best from it you have to go through a (seemingly) never ending learning curve.

Let me explain, when I had dial up it is very simple to use but very slow so I moved up to ADSL (broadband). I configured my software, MTU's and other stuff, as instructed by my ISP, to get the connection working at peak efficiency and, for a few months, everything is fine.

Then I find out that my ISP has secretly installed "Traffic Shaping Techniques" which has effectively killed off my connection to the P2P network and undermined my reason for getting broadband in the first place.

So I change ISPs to one that isn't anti-P2P, get a new modem (which is a modem router combo), set everything up and, lo and behold, all my internet apps work except for LW, I now can't get rid of the "brick wall in front of the world" icon.

After some frantic research, I found out that my new modem/router has a built in firewall, which I try to switch off. Only later to find out, by some more frantic reading and hair pulling, that the inbuilt firewall cannot be switched off via the configuration software it can only be totally switch off via some arcane command line method.

After much swearing and gritting of teeth, I am now told that in order to get LW to work properly I have to PORT FORWARD and set up a temporary static IP address.

Back in the "dial up" days I did not need to know about PORTS (whether they could be forwarded or not), IP Addresses and stuff like that, now I have to know in order to get back to stage one, using LW without problems.

Wearing down (and loosing hair) but still soldiering on.



UK Bob

ASC555, you may as well take a couple weeks off before trying again because
your little ISP is connected through AT&T which, aside from spying on
everybody for the NSA, also blocks P2P temporarily in various areas without
notifying your ISP about this illegal censorship.

ive just discovered that my limewire has been firewalled. Its windows xp I have. ive tried uninstalling/reinstalling it but still no joy...any suggestiongs to whats going on here??

Make sure that you're only using 1 software firewall & that it's configured properly.
Read the thread below, it has heaps of info about connection/firewall problems & solutions. If you're using a router, it probably has it's own internal firewall...check out the sections about UPnP & port forwarding!
Connection problems? Check here first!

If you're stuck, post back with your details (post #2 of that thread will tell you what info we need):wink:

OS: XP Home w/SP 2
LW & Java version: 4.12.6 & 1.5.0_08
Firewall you're using: XP Home (me); the apartment is using SonicWall
Modem/router brand & model: no idea; my comp is a Sony Va*o PCV-RS220, if that helps
ISP: Qwest
Connection type: DSL
Where you connect from: home
Are you sharing a connection with other computers: no
Is this your first try with LW: no, it worked fine before this Sonicwall crap!

Are you able to disable SonicWall? Or talk to the people who set it up to allow LimeWire/Gnutella & port 6346.

How do I disable SonicWall?