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ok, i'm trying to set up Limewire Pro - for totally legal reasons of course - and i'm having no luck at all. back at uni it worked fine but i'm using a different router here and.... its simply not working when i think it should be. so... help!
this copy of the program also works round a friend's house on his wireless network, so i conclude that its a problem with my firewall settings - something i am not too savvy about.

i don't have windows or any other software firewall running
my router (netgear DG834) has a built in hardware firewall
when the program loads it simply says "connecting" and does nothing
it works on port 6346 and i have set that up as a TCP/UDP service in the router's settings
i have then set up a firewall rule to always allow inbound traffic coming from that service/port to be sent to my PC's IP on the home LAN (192.168.0.whatever), allowing any WAN users to send packets.

that would seem to be all you have to do (certainly was on my uni router) but it just doesn't work :headbang:


so, appealing to the collective genious of you lovely, lovely NSers... any thoughts?

might using some kind of proxy thingy help out? what the hell is all this "proxy" nonsense anyway? socks v4, socks v6, HTTP proxies... what :confused:


any help or info would be helpful! :)
i've tried googling for info on proxies but it all assumes a level of knowledge i just don't have (my level of knowledge is zero :P )

thanks :fluffle:

Tried setting it to run on startup?

I have found it won't run if your computer has already been running...it wants to tie you into sharing music from startup, which kinda makes sense.

ok, i set it to run on startup and resarted... and it decided to not run at startup... both tries. typical :headbang:


it could be my ISP. in which case i'm gonna kill em :mad:

ok, i'm trying to set up Limewire Pro - for totally legal reasons of course - and i'm having no luck at all. back at uni it worked fine but i'm using a different router here and.... its simply not working when i think it should be. so... help!
this copy of the program also works round a friend's house on his wireless network, so i conclude that its a problem with my firewall settings - something i am not too savvy about.

i don't have windows or any other software firewall running
my router (netgear DG834) has a built in hardware firewall
when the program loads it simply says "connecting" and does nothing
it works on port 6346 and i have set that up as a TCP/UDP service in the router's settings
i have then set up a firewall rule to always allow inbound traffic coming from that service/port to be sent to my PC's IP on the home LAN (192.168.0.whatever), allowing any WAN users to send packets.

that would seem to be all you have to do (certainly was on my uni router) but it just doesn't work :headbang:


so, appealing to the collective genious of you lovely, lovely NSers... any thoughts?

might using some kind of proxy thingy help out? what the hell is all this "proxy" nonsense anyway? socks v4, socks v6, HTTP proxies... what :confused:


any help or info would be helpful! :)
i've tried googling for info on proxies but it all assumes a level of knowledge i just don't have (my level of knowledge is zero :P )

thanks :fluffle:

If it's the router, you probably wouldn't be able to transfer files on Yahoo or MSN either... so it might be worth seeing if you can. You might need to find a different router?

If it's the router, you probably wouldn't be able to transfer files on Yahoo or MSN either... so it might be worth seeing if you can. You might need to find a different router?
files on msn are fine... not sure if i can convince my dad to get a new router just so i can use p2p. oh to be back at uni :(


but i really am starting to think the ISP may be doing something funny. i'll get the codes and log on to our account n poke around there...

files on msn are fine... not sure if i can convince my dad to get a new router just so i can use p2p. oh to be back at uni :(


but i really am starting to think the ISP may be doing something funny. i'll get the codes and log on to our account n poke around there...

It could just be a limeware feature... have you tried using 'bearshare'? It 'sees' limeware clients, too.

I had a similar problem with a bittorrent client that was trying to use UPnP to forward ports, but couldn't, so it would just stay at "connecting" forever. Fixed it by disabling UPnP in its settings.

The weird thing is, the same programme with the same router didn't have any problems on my other computer. So, my tip is, try UPnP. Either enabling it on the router if possible, or disabling it in Limewire*.

*I've never used Limewire, so I can't help you there.

hmm i'll keep trying tomorrow. but now, bed! :)