Dear Gnutella Forum,

I'm having problems connecting with LimeWire because our organization uses a strict firewall software called Raptor. The main issue is that nearly ALL the ports are blocked.

Here's a list of the ports that are open to me.

135, 139, 445, 1029, 6129, 8080

Unfortunately, none of these ports are supported by the Gnutella servers. Also, I tried to set each of these ports as the listening port and only 8080 took. The others produced an error and would not proceed...I'm assuming these are reserved ports that LimeWire can't access.

Anyway, I've read dozens of post that say to use port 8080. However, ALL of them have failed to mention a single Gnutella server that supports this port. I tried router.limewire.com:8080, gnutellahosts.com:8080, and several other IP Addresses. NONE have connected successfully.

If ANYONE has some additional insight (e.g. hacking tools to get around the closed port) on this matter and/or can provide me with a list of servers that support port 8080, I'd highly appreciate it.

thanks,

Jim