YEAY I connected! Now, it says that I have a poor connection! Why would this be? Out of the 5 bars I have 2 working.

It could potentially be for numerous reasons. Forcing resume is one reason. This function cuses LW to continually do searches every few mins for those files selected. If it's many of them then it'll drain the energy out of yur connecton quality thus if u have less than 2 or 3 green bars you won't be able to do a search. That's the side effect of resuming files! You sacrifice conneciton quality for forced dwnlds. I only do it as a last resort! Here's some hinst about search & dwnld techniques.

I have service pack 2 updated...I tried the beta version and still can't connect...Totally Sucks!

Gedy, just be happy you connected. The fact that it is in Poor status is probably a minor thing. Sometimes you just have to wait before LW establishes a more stable connection to the Gnutella net.
(As a side note, upgrading to Pro, I saw a status had almost forgotten about: "Turbocharged". Huh. And it has stayed like that ever since I upgraded. That is, since yesterday...)

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-

THank you all for your help! I truly appreciate it! You have been great!

hmmm i dun see any preferences folder...

I'd like to send out a plea from all those whose problems with connecting to limewire are probably, i feel, due to university ofr other shcool firewalls. I'm not an expert, its just that I've tried every other possible fix and nothing is working. I've added gnutella to firewall acceptances, i've deleted the .limewire folder. it just won't connect. I'm using Windows XP. Obviously I'm bummed cuz i know how good limewire is and i was psyched about finally using limewire pro. anyways, to all the brilliant software engineers: From what I've said, do you think I'm right that the school is blocking access to gnutella networks? Is there anything we can do to circumvent the university firewall, assuming that is the problem? Let us all know, it would be so great to have this working.

Cheers,
Ross

P.S. - I don't like Kazaa, but i dl'd it just to see if it would work. it doesn't. of course, IE and AIM do. does this add up?

Yes I completely agree. I paid for PRO, and of course they give no refunds, and it wont work. There is a way to bypass the university port blocks, there's gotta be a way. In my town (JMU Harrisonburg) we have a company called NTC who we pay for internet service, but somehow its registered on the JMU network. An IT guy at JMU said that JMU is specifically blocking ports to prevent limewire from running so that the bandwidth is freed up at the school. Well legally, can they do that? I mean, I pay for ethernet, my checks are made out to 'NTC' not JMU. So, if I am paying for ethernet, am I not paying for my own allocated space? if I cant use the space that I pay for, shouldn't they give me money back? Tell us how we can get around this Hitler style domination, and how can it be legal for them to block what we pay for?

Hellbigtw, before signing the contract you have to read everything. Make sure that it wasn't written in the contract first, 'cause if it is then there's nothing you can do aside from changing ISPs.

rmycanes1L, I have no idea if there is a way to do that or not, but I must tell you that this is not a hacker forum. If you wanna be a hacker or wanna use hacker stuff to circumvent the rules set by the university then post somewhere else please.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

"Raise your can of Beer on high
And seal your fate forever
Our best years have passed us by
The Golden Age Of Leather"
-Blue Öyster Cult-

ONLY WORKED FOR A FEW SECS THEN LOST THE CONNECTION :-(