This is so annoying! I have Mac OS X 10.1.5, newest version of Limewire (although all the previous versions I've had with OS X have done it, too), and at any random time while I'm using Limewire, my internet connection will just die. I have a crappy modem connection, but nothing else I run seems to have a problem with it. I don't have a firewall. And yes, I have read lots of other posts and searched for this problem, but the only thing I found is that people have a similar problem when they start or quit limewire, and that doesn't happen to me. It only happens at random times while I'm running it. I've tried lots of different things to make it stop, nothing works. What's wrong? I like Limewire...but this is just really annoying and frustrating! If anyone can help, thanks a lot.
Nicole

Check to make sure you have the most recent Java. Have you checked with your ip provider about whether you can use p2p software. I've heard some providers try to block it. Is that a dialup service?

I used to think that I had the same problem: Limewire (or other p2p apps such as BitTorrent) crashed my connection at seeminlgy random times.
Well, I've figured out my 'problem'. Turns out my stupid ISP automatically shuts off connections that are active for a precise 24 hours. Can you believe it? Why would they do that. To my knowledge, no other ISP (at least in France) does this and mine happens to be one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive of them all. You'd figure that with the money they take from us they wouldn't do that to us.

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How do I check my Java version?
Yes it is a dialup serice.

For the other person who who replied...It happens at ANY random time..not just every 24 hours or whatever. Totally random.

Oh, and I checked...my isp (Telus) doesn't block p2p.

In your Utilities folder (within the Aplications folder) there should be a folder entitled Java. There should be a file in there called Java 1.x.x Plugin Settings. The most recent version is Java 1.4.2. Use your software update utility (from Sys Prefs) to update Java if needed. Glad to know I'm not the only one on a dialup modem! Is that the internal modem that came with your computer or an external one? Hope it's not an external usb modem. Have you had any difficulties with other net apps? In your Sys Prefs & Network, click open the modem section, have you set it for Enable Error Correction & compression?

It sounds like a modem problem to me. Hopefully when murasame gets back (joke from his temporary 'lost in Olympics' or dog paddling (drowning) in the sea. He will have some other ideas.

I have java version 1.3.1. The newest version is 1.4.2 but I can't upgrade to it because I'm still on system 10.1.5, and it's not compatable.
I use the internal modem that came with my computer.
My Enable error correction & compression is checked.
I don't have trouble with any other applications EXCEPT msn messenger, (I can no longer receive files, although I can still send them). For msn, though, I was lead to believe that the reason for this was because my version of msn is outdated and I can't upgrade it because the new version requires at least system 10.2. Oh well, I'll upgrade eventually...
Maybe I have the wrong modem listed? Would that be it?
Anyways, thanx for your help!

What is the modem setting you have (as in which type & version is selected; what v.# in brackets)? Also can you go to the apple icon at top LH of menu bar & select About this Mac & press the more info button. Then under hardware select modems. What type & specification is it? I've heard they have different ones for diff countries (I don't know if that's right or not.)

If it's not a modem issue, then it could be Java. I know on a g3 here LW had issues with java & also did with some browsers. As time went on it got worse (actually the browsers were not initially affected but then one by one it caught up with them.)

Um...I'm guessing in the newer version, they put a "more info" button in the "About This Mac"...but I don't have it. lol, sorry. I looked in the Apple System Profiler and I can't find where it's supposed to say what modem I have...

I have Apple Internal 56k Modem v.34 and v.90 in that list of modems...and a huuuuuuge list of other ones...

Maybe I should delete Java and reinstall it?

Yeap sounds llike a reasonable idea to me. Strange about Apple System P., it must be in the utilities folder then. It's been over a yr since I was on 10.1.x Get back to us to see how you go. Can I ask which model mac u have & do you know its nickname/family no.?