Limewire Question

[boffo]

I haven't been able to download any songs for the past week on Limewire because I get this message at startup that says "Limewire is currently connecting to the network. Your search may not return many results until you are fully connected to the network."

The problem is it never connects to the network and I can't download any songs.
Wondering if anyone has ever seen this and if so how they got around it?
Thanks for any ideas.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Sounds like Limewire may be on its deathbed. The same thing happened to CuteMx, WinMx and I think Kaza lite before the plug was pulled on them. Awhile back out of curiosity went to Kaza lite and never connected to their networks.

Time to learn Torrents. Torrents are far superior to P2P which are loaded up with too many bogus files and malware lately.

 

[bobistheowl]

Torrents are certainly best for anything new, but p2p is still a good choice for less popular files. There is more selection of p2p, it can just take a lot longer to get.

 

[cypherpunk]

Maybe your ISP is blocking you. Maybe it's God telling you to use eMule like a big boy.

Limewire should be alive and kicking, just as sure as torrents ARE p2p.

 

[boffo]

Downloaded emule. But it asked me a bunch of questions that I didn't have a clue how to answer like what my TCP port numbers are and what my UDP port numbers are.
I don't have a clue how to answer questions like that so can't get emule to work.

 

[samcan]

No problems for me?

 

[bobistheowl]

Try using the Help topic in the eMule Menu Bar. It's very detailed. As far as using TCP and UDP ports, go to this link:

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

Then chose your router/modem, and the app(s) for which you want to select permanent ports.

The purpose of the port forwarding link is to create a static IP address for your p2p application, so that the association between the port and the app stays the same, if you restart your computer. You also have to set those ports as exceptions in the Windows firewall.

I don't understand how a lot of that works, but I don't need to understand it. The instructions on that site are very precise. You do, however, need to know the exact model of your modem or router to access the proper page for specific instructions, and you need to be able to read and follow instructions.

If your ISP is using 'traffic shaping', or other weasel words to describe throttling back of p2p upload bandwidth, this link won't help much, but otherwise, follow the instructions to the letter, and in the proper sequence, (note that you have to go to a different page mid way through the procedure, to obtain your static IP address, then you have to go back to a previous page to enter that address. That's all explained on the pages, with illustrations).

 

[carguy34]

Are there any P2P sites left ? I used to use a site called "ARES" but now you have to pay for it ? Does anyone know of any free sites that are still available ?

 

[shakenbake]

Sounds like Limewire may be on its deathbed. The same thing happened to CuteMx, WinMx and I think Kaza lite before the plug was pulled on them. Awhile back out of curiosity went to Kaza lite and never connected to their networks.

Time to learn Torrents. Torrents are far superior to P2P which are loaded up with too many bogus files and malware lately.

I have absolutely no problem with Limewire. Maybe, the firewall, antivirus or antispyware protection is blocking the connection in the OP's case. As for torrents, they take way too long for me (several days) to get a reasonably sized file. Any one else have this issue with torrents?

 

[Horney_Senior]

I tried this out on Limewire and got the same 'cannot connect message' noted earlier. At the time I had uTorrent doing a download/seed, so I killed that and re-tried Limewire. It worked fine with the other program out of the way.

 

[shakenbake]

Yes, I did have that problem with bittorrent. I switched to uTorrent, enabled encryption, followed the set-up instructions and enabled port forwarding on my Linksys router. Downloads are significantly faster. There is a excellent Q&A section on the uTorrent website describing all the steps.

I use Bell Highspeed (Speedtest of 1.4Mbps downstream). Before the change throughput started high but settled in at 25K-40KB/sec. With the above changes I typically sustain 80KB - 120KB/sec.

What I've now noted is that my web surfing slows down and stays that way for days after Torrent usage. It appears that the Linksys router has a bug where it holds unused TCP/IP connections open for several days and effectively "runs-out". If I reboot the router all is good. See: http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Special_note_for_users_with_Linksys_WRT54G_GL_GS_routers I'm thinking of trying DD-WRT to solve this problem as well as adding static IP assignment and greater power output.

Thanks for the info and advice! Coincidentally, I also have a Linksys router and will follow your reccomendations.

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