Have you tried using a different port ?

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Yes, I have tried changing to other ports.

But i have only typed in a random number. Should i try one specific that is most likely to be open for traffic?

Do you think it might be the ISP that is blocking and a alternative port will solve the disconnection problem?

that worked for me

I have deleted preferance library and it it worked on first connection but when i go to start LW again it is the same old story! I have made sure it is set not to restatrt on connection but the same thing happens NO CONNECTION plus it disconnects my PC from the net and I have to repair this connection to even reconnect to my server! ThIS IS GETTING UGLY

Hmm...

I tried Iswipe today just to check it out. And it would connect to the napster client, but not Gnutella(limewire).

Also, if I tell limewire to disconnect and it shows no hosts, and I quit the application, my Internet Connect program still shows things sending and receiving even though no programs are running.

I wonder if this might be due to my slow connect - 26.4.

If I select a file to download, my connect starts to crash real quick. It goes from Turbocharged down to poor in just a couple of minutes, but if I kill the download, it will work it's way back up to turbocharged.

Is this a bandwidth problem?

love to solve this.

thanks.

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A comprehensive listing by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority can be found here. This is the official list. IANA is the organization that actually assigns these numbers, so this is really the place to look.

But the short story is, ports 49152 to 65535 are the ones to shoot for. They're known as Dynamic or Private Ports, and are there to use freely without stepping on any ports being used by your computer for other things.

Following is a list of the ports your machine might use at some time or another:

Ports below 1024 are called the "Well-Known Ports", used by various system processes. You can use any port within this range that are not in use, but unless you really know your computer, you can't be sure which ones are being used by your machine at any given time.

20 FTP data (File Transfer Protocol)
21 FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
22 SSH (Secure Shell)
23 Telnet
25 SMTP (Send Mail Transfer Protocol)
43 whois
53 DNS (Domain Name Service)
68 DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol)
79 Finger
80 HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
110 POP3 (Post Office Protocol, version 3)
115 SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol)
119 NNTP (Network New Transfer Protocol)
123 NTP (Network Time Protocol)
137 NetBIOS-ns
138 NetBIOS-dgm
139 NetBIOS
143 IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
161 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
194 IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
220 IMAP3 (Internet Message Access Protocol 3)
389 LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
443 SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
445 SMB (NetBIOS over TCP)
666 Doom
993 SIMAP (Secure Internet Message Access Protocol)
995 SPOP (Secure Post Office Protocol)

Ports between 1024 and 29151 are known as the Registered Ports. Basically, programs are supposed to register their use of these ports and thereby try to be careful and avoid stomping on each other. Here are some common ports and their programs. Same thing applies concerning ports within this range that aren't on this list -- you never know for sure which ones are being used.

1243 SubSeven (Trojan - security risk!)
1352 Lotus Notes
1433 Microsoft SQL Server
1494 Citrix ICA Protocol
1521 Oracle SQL
1604 Citrix ICA / Microsoft Terminal Server
2049 NFS (Network File System)
3306 mySQL
4000 ICQ
5010 Yahoo! Messenger
5190 AOL Instant Messenger
5632 PCAnywhere
5800 VNC
5900 VNC
6000 X Windowing System
6699 Napster
6776 SubSeven (Trojan - security risk!)
7070 RealServer / QuickTime
7778 Unreal
8080 HTTP
26000 Quake
27010 Half-Life
27960 Quake III
31337 BackOrifice (Trojan - security risk!)

You can see a complete list of Trojans & their ports at http://www.simovits.com/nyheter9902.html. BUT... that list was last updated in December 2002, so it's probably not 100% accurate, although it gives you a good idea of what's what.


We all owe a large and extra warm thank you to Threadmaster, moderator extraordinaire, of the BearShare Forums for helping to help all of you LimeWire folks !

i am using a mac OSX, and have the newest version of Lime Wire. Sometimes I can connect sometimes I can't. I tried changing the firewalls on panther and it didn't help. I am new to using this computer and I couldn' t find /Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire but maybe I am looking in the wrong spots. Where exactly should I look? I already have forced the IP address and changed the setting for the tips and automatic connection and tried changing the port. Can anyone help?

We all owe a large and extra warm thank you to Threadmaster, moderator extraordinaire, of the BearShare Forums for helping to help all of you LimeWire folks ! [/B][/QUOTE]

Certainly!

Thank you for the well explaining answer, but typing inn the new values did not help. i tried several numbers between ports 49152 to 65535.

I thought it might be my ISP that is blocking gnutella? So i tried iSwipe. It connects to OpenFT, Open Nap and Web Gnutella. The rest are staying gray. On iTunes i get "560 Users" but it is still gray. So this program can not connect to gnutella network??

I have played with every setting possible now. I'm out of ideas. Must be ISP.. Must be ISP...

Another interesting thing.

I tried again to download something, and limewire immediately disconnected. But then I noticed my internet connect was still sending and receiving so I left it one.

And with Limewire showing no connect, no hosts, no files, the file downloaded itself.

Hmm...


I think I'm giving up on Limewire.

I did what you said... I deleted it, all of it. Then it worked - it let me connect. I went off of it to go to another account (my husbands) and re-download it on his computer (he accidentally erased it). It wouldn't let me finish downloading-it came up with an error, AND when I went back to mine, it wouldn't let me connect again!!!!!!! It is very frustrating. Please help me !