I don't know what happened but it seems that Limewire has reduced me from 8 to 2 sources for my maximum. I don't know why but it happened all of a sudden. It is frustrating, I have even reinstalled it with the same thing happening.

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1. OS version? XP Professional SP2
2. What firewalls you have? ZoneAlarm Pro
3. How much ram? 512K
4. Hard Disk space available? 25GB
5. Connection type? BroadBand
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? 2Wire from Qwest
7. Where are you trying to connect from? House
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? 4.12.6 and Java 1.5.0_09
9. Who is your ISP provider (Internet Service Provider)? QWEST
10. Do this simple test for us. It Does say 'Your test worked!'
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? No
12. your an experienced user.
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? Yes

1. Try deleting your LW Preferences folder whilst LW is closed; instructions here: Point #2 & 3 in Fixes for Limewire (sample image included at bottom of page.) & try again with LW.

2. You seem to have a firewall problem for a start. Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link). Thus disable XP firewall.

3. Find a 2Wire device similar to yours here http://portforward.com/routers.htm in far left column.

On a couple of occasions this has happened because the speed setting in Limewire>tools>options>speed ( or download??) has somehow changed to "modem" so that might be worth checking first ..probably too late

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