The LImeWire program and routers
Hi there,
i paid for the PRO version of LimeWire. It wont work properly because of firewall and router issues.
i made the changes in the Program Control area of the firewall settings, but now the router , i am not sure what to do.. sorry if i sound rather frustrated, but it's like no one is able to help me with this issue and i cannot have a refund on the membership fee for LimeWire.
Please tell me that you can help.... thanks
i paid for the PRO version of LimeWire. It wont work properly because of firewall and router issues.
i made the changes in the Program Control area of the firewall settings, but now the router , i am not sure what to do.. sorry if i sound rather frustrated, but it's like no one is able to help me with this issue and i cannot have a refund on the membership fee for LimeWire.
Please tell me that you can help.... thanks
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Answers & Comments
Hi nicthomar
If you have recently got a new router, there would be a firewall on the router blocking the required ports for LimeWire to operate. To get around this, refer to your Router's user manual and find out how to access it and then unblock those certain ports. PLEASE NOTE: Do not attempt to unblock all the ports as this will increase the risk of getting your router and perhaps your computers infected with viruses.
If that is not your problem, you may be using and ISP (Internet Service Provider) that has blocked those ports as downloading music uses a lot of bandwidth which is a burden on them. If you have Satellite Internet, this is probably the case. You can try and resolve this by contacting your ISP and negotiating a price for them to unblock the port for you.
Please remember to give this solution a FixYa! rating.
Kind regards
BearWeb
Hi
check with the ISP person ,in there server tcp ports are enabled ,
in some ISP they there ports are open ports,
sume isp are block the some ports so pls first check with ISP provider side, why means limewire need the port as to open ,
in your pc windows firewall will not block any ports