newbie-can people upload from me?

[falco]

Hi, I'm new to limewire and new to the whole sharing thing. I want to make sure that I am sharing. Not that I have that much to share. I have read from forum, FAQ and using limewire but there is not anyway to tell if anyone is able to upload from me. I can download fine. Here's my info Dell dimension 3000, XP home sp2, lime wire basic 4.9.28, cable connection, firewall zonealarm. On the monitor I see searches and in shared folder I see hits. Problem with tool/options everything is cut off on the rightside. Zonealarm is listening to port 6346 and limewire program has full access to internet. When I went on the internet and checked my port 6346 gnutella was listed. So I think I can share but want to be sure I set everything up right. If I missed any needed info let me know. Thanks.

[Kent_Diego]

If you see incoming and outgoing mesaging traffic in your Connections then everything should be OK. Look in your music library to see how may attempts have been made to U/L your files. If you see a whole bunch of attempts and no completions, then maybe your ISP like mine (Cox) is blocking the U/L attempts. If so it may be time (for all of us) to look in to a new method of file sharing unless the Gnutella protocol gets updated ASAP to combat this huge threat. BTW you should really be posting a LimeWire question in the LimeWire forum, not the Bearshare forum.

-Kent

[falco]

Thanks Kent,
I thought I was postings in Limewire, I just saw upload/download problems and posted there. I did see the bear logo but thought it was an advertisement. Is there anyway to move post to the right place? I went to library, first time I saw anything in upload column other than 0/0, one song has 1/3 and in the location column it has the #3 also. What does the 1/3 mean? And what does the 3 mean in the location column? Was the person able to get the song? As you can tell I really do not know alot abot this. Thank you for your help.
Liz

[Kent_Diego]

I think the 1/3 is three attempts to U/L and one complete U/L

[falco]

Well if one made it then I guess I can upload. I hope that is the case, because I want to do the right thing and share. Thanks again Kent for your help.
Liz