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September 7th, 2008
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 No Limewire Will Not Work At All my limewire will not connect at all. i did everything there is to be done in an attempt to fix. nothing works. i even turned my firewall completly off and it still did not connect. i made an exeption under my firewall, and even put a listen on poirt number in. nothing works at all, it wll not connect. many people tell me to use Bittorrent, but i hate it!!! 90% of the time i cant even find the music i want to download. and it takes probably 5 hours to downoad one music album with a gooood amount of seeders (and less leechers). im very upset at limewire any hints of how i can remotly make it work?  |
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September 7th, 2008
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| It's hard to determine what the problem is if you don't tell us your details..... http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...-you-post.html
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September 7th, 2008
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| ohh, haha sorry. i guess that makes sense. well, i have a basic Norton antivirus with firewall, with windows XP home edi. HP pavilion with 160GB hard drive and a 512mb RAM. pretty hefty computer. im pretty shure i have a tonn of hard drive space. i have cable modem, high speed internet with 2 other computers hooked up at my house. they both also use limewire and it works fine for them. lets see- some more details- the test link on the "help us help you!" page said it worked. i have been using limewire for about 2 years and it decided to stop working about 2 months ago. the globe icon on the bottom of my limewire screen has a brick wall in front of it and all the connection bars are red exept for the smallest one. im in the good ol' USA!!! haha any of that help? thanks!! |
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September 12th, 2008
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| absolutly NOTHING LIMEWIRE WONT WORK AT ALL wow, first off i would like to say to the limewire creators, you guys suck. your software dosent know how to connect and its terrible. Limewire worked fine for me for the last 3 years. 2 months ago it decided to just stop working. i got 1 little green bar and it wont connect. i already posted a thread with all my system data, and all you helpful people (sarcastic) really helped me (not). I did TONS of work with my firewall, and i even changed the port and made an exception in my firewall for limewi. it still wont fuggin connect. NOTHING AT ALL. i would like to change my router settinfs, but i cant locate my router anyyywhere on my computer. bittorrent and isohunt is the shittiest software i ever used. it takes all day for 1 album to download with a GOOD amount of seeders (and less leachers) |
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September 12th, 2008
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| Try an earlier version: LW 4.16, 14, or 12 LimeWire 4.16.3 Download, ___ LimeWire 4.14 Download, ___ LimeWire 4.12. You will probably need to remove the firewall rule you made for LW & re-add it for the different version for Norton Firewall. Disable your XP firewall because both Norton & XP firewalls run together will result in less security not more, and will cause problems running efficiently. Configuring Norton Internet Security I see your ISP is Road Runner. No problems running p2p thru them as far as I know. However, the fact you are having problems using other p2p sharing programs suggests a problem at your end. Edit: if still problems, try these suggestions: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...t-connect.html Last edited by Lord of the Rings; September 12th, 2008 at 05:57 PM. |
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September 13th, 2008
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| alright, i have Norton security, but i cant locate it on my computer. All's it does is scan for viruses once a week anyway. I tried turning off the windows firewall, and then connecting, but LW still didnt work. Oh, i did try to download another version, but when it installs, its 4.18 not 4.14 like i downloaded |
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September 13th, 2008
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| NIS is a firewall/AV....sounds like you just have the AV, so you don't have 'Norton security'
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September 13th, 2008
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| Well ... try 4.12 then  BTW which brand & model of modem/router are you using? Is it wireless? Are you sharing that connection with others? Do you have other sharing programs that use the same connection port? |
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September 13th, 2008
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| i have an RCA Modem with a Netgear router. its wireless, but i have a cable hooked up to it. (we have wireless because my brother has a laptop) Other than that, we have 2 desktops hooked up to it. my computer is the only one that limewire will not work on. |
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September 13th, 2008
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| Sounds like a set up issue with router & networking that's causing the issues.  If your brother uses LW, make sure you do not use the same connection or listening ports. Hard wiring has so many advantages over wireless. Glad to see you chose that option. However something is astray. Possibly the router's NAT causing issues which is why port forwarding might be more appropriate so the PF rule is directed specifically to your computer (ie: via the ip address.) For some reason UPnp is not working, since Netgear in general have reliable UPnp, however on occasions PF is the better approach; at least more reliable. I do not know your model of Netgear. BTW routers will reserve one port per application per computer or/& user account. So that's why it's so important to make sure your other LW's all use different connection & listening ports to any others used on your network. Check via LW's menu bar, Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Firewalls. If the ports are the same then change to a port between ports 49152 - 65535. (Any other computer trying to connect via same port will simply be blocked out by the router.) Last edited by Lord of the Rings; September 13th, 2008 at 06:27 PM. |
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