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Old September 5th, 2006
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Yes it makes a difference AFAIK. The manual portforward number should be the same as the listening port.

Yeah and I mistook the IP settings with the Http settings....
Though your firewall should be configured with TCP and UDP in accurance with the listening port (and the manual port forward).
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But you're still seeing the brick wall at the bottom of LW's interface right?

As far as firwalls go, AFAIK you can get free ones that are just as good if not better. Some of the forum members would be able to recommend such ones. Here's a list of some but I can't comment upon their abilities Free Firewalls listed at Norbie's site
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yeah, even when I turn off the windows firewall, the brick wall is still there, which is not suprising, being that the server is firewalled.

what can be the problem?

thanks for the advice on the firewalls, though.
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Regarding the firewall I use the Sygate firewall

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=58498

It's the last freeware version of it, but really good.

Antivirus AVG free (not that good but still better than nothing :wink

And Ewido antispyware (Good but kind of a resourcehog)

What all of these have in common are that they're free and do not interfere with Limewire (Sygate of course needs to be configured but is very userfriendly and easy to set up)

If the test works then it's probably not the ISP blocking anything

One option that's left is that you talk nicely to the administrator and ask him if he could forward a port for you (one of the high ones mentioned in the threads above) for both incoming, Outgoing, TCP and UDP. This problem is almost certainly caused by some security measure implemented by your administrator (knowingly or not). Forwarding a port would override all other rules in his system usually. I'm not that knowing of big networks so there may be needed other things to be done, but if he's good at his job he should have no problem figuring this out.
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