Very weak connection

[Wgreen118]

Limewire used to work great for me, but the a week or two ago I started only getting one green bar in the connection bars. I can't download anything. I did all the stuff incase it was a firewall but it wasn't. Help please?

[Catspajamas555]

Ya I get the same thing. When I start a search it says limewire is not fully connected and later it says that your machine does not appear to have an active Internet connection or a firewall is blocking Limewire from accessing the internet. I already tryed to fix it if it was a fire wall but nothing changed. But my computer says that I have a strong connection and limewire says that I have one out of five bars!!! It was fine the other day and now none of my searches work.

Please Help,
Catspajamas

[foolofthehill]

The first thing you could try would be to delete the " .limewire " preference folder (Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire)
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=36420

If that doesn't do the trick get back here and give us some specs of your system setup:
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)
2. What firewalls you have?
3. How much ram?
4. Hard Disk space available?
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
9. Who is your isp provider (Internet Service Provider)?
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
11. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user.
12. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there?

[ukbobboy01]

FOTH

The first thing you should really ask these guys (Wgreen and CP) is if their ISP have started to use anti-P2P technology, aka Bandwidth Shaping, whereby ISPs start to block or inhibit the use of P2P traffic on their internet connections.

I guess that if these guys haven't changed anything on their PCs and LW worked fine one day and seems to be failing the next, the place to look as at the ISP.



UK Bob

PS. This is how I found out that my original ISP (Virgin) was using "Bandwidth Shaping".