cant connect please help

[gamer2291]

Ive tried reinstalling limewire 3 times and I dont have a firewall on. I tried the test http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ and it says page cannot be displayed...i dont know what to do i really need some help...what should i do next???

Thanks for n e help

[Lord of the Rings]

It means the port is blocked for some reason ... either your firewalls, modem/router or your ISP. We need answers to certain questions such as these: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=61028

[gamer2291]

1. Windows XP
2. I had Zone Alarm, but after the problem I uninstalled it. Windows firewall, but when I try to open it to see if its on or not it says due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display windows firewall settings. It might have been disabled by Zone Alarm and before when it worked I did the stuff to allow limewire and that didnt fix the problem.
3. 320 MB of RAM
4. 2.46 GB (Old shitty computer)
5. Broadband
6. Modem- NextNet Wireless RSU-2510, Router- Linksys WRT54G
7. Connecting from Home
8. LimeWire Pro 4.12.6 & Java 1.5.0_6
9. Evertek (Small ISP in Iowa)
10. I have an antenna on my house (im in the middle of nowwhere) the antenna goes to my modem in my attic, goes down my chimney to my basement connects to my router and that goes to my computer, my dads computer and to my xbox.
11. Ive had limwire for a while and it has worked great up until a few weeks ago where it hasn’t been able to connect… I used to just restart my computer and then it would work but now it wont connect no matter what I do…
12. Yes, there is a brickwall infront of the globe…

My Dads computer is much much newer than mine and it has 394MB of RAM 130GB (also doesn’t work on this computer) No firewall on it Limewire and java are the same as the other computer.

[Lord of the Rings]

eek! wrt54g, they are reknown for problems with their firmware & unreliability. Generally Linksys are very good but the 54 series afaik sucks (excuse the language!)

I've heard of nextnet devices before but know little if anything about them. Almost all wireless devices have internal nat firewalls. The issue is usually to enable UPnP if the device supports it or else, forward a port in order for a port in need to be opened.

Strange it worked before but not now. If the problem is not the device then it may be your isp who may be secretly filtering or blocking p2p programs.

As far as software firewalls go, you should only have one active one. Either choose XP or ZA fw. But you will need to configure whichever one you choose. Firewall configuration instructions (click on link) & about zonealarm see this extra http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=3878

If still problems get back. I'm about to go offline so my answer is a little brief for the time being.

BTW you could also try deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire (sample image included at bottom of page.) And see if that makes any difference.

[gamer2291]

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i really need to know what to do next

ive configured windows firewall, got rid of zone alarm and deleted my preferences none of that has worked and I tried to follow a step by step to forward a port and it wouldnt let me connect to my router with 192.168.1.1 and blank username and password as admin

[gamer2291]

seems that my isp (evertek) has been blocking p2p file sharing for a few weeks about the time that my problems started...I would switch isp's if i could but being in the middle of nowhere this is my only option other than dial-up...Iv'e tried this http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=32882 but cant get it to work and also it is a little confusing because it appears to be for an older version of limewire....I'd still like n e help I can get

[Lord of the Rings]

Check thru the pages not only page one.

[gamer2291]

I set the manual port forward at port 6346 and listen on port at 6346 and the I would try a proxy I tried like 10 and none of them worked LimeWire kept saying that there is no active internet connection. I looked in the other pages and it sayed nothing about the current version.....!??!?!?
Why do ISP's do this!??!?!? It'd be nice if someone could help me with a step by step thing for the proxies or if they could tell me what I did wrong....

[Lord of the Rings]

AFAIK (I've never used proxies personally), you have to keep sifting thru proxies until you find one that works. Also keep in mind there's more than one type of proxy. eg: (i) http proxies, ___ (ii) A Successful http Proxy Solution, __ (iii) HTTP proxy blocks P2P,
(iv) SecureX http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...t=55461&page=5

[gamer2291]

i just got off the phone with another person from evertek...this person says that all they do is block people from downloading off their customers and that most people can connnect to limewire, idk maybe its a router problem I would try and forward a port but I CANT GET INTO MY ROUTER it keeps asking me for the user name and password and I was told to type nothing in for user name and admin for password and it says 401 Unathorized-Authorization Required!?!?!!? Does n e one else have similar problems with this!??!?!?! If n e one helps me get LimeWire going ill give them 10 bucks........lol

Thanks again.......