limewire wont connect?

Al3X · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 10:47 pm

Simple problem but im not sure how to fix it. Basically Im trying to use Limewire but it wont connect to the internet so I cant search for anything.

Anyone have Ideas on how to fix (id prefer to get this fixed fairly quickly too as Im on sort of a schedule.)

edit: if anyone knows a way to convert .M4P files to .MP3 that would be a good alternative.

Adbot · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 10:47 pm

Marking22 · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 10:48 pm

only stuff i can think of is uninstall/reinstall or restart computer
but for my limewire to connect it usually takes about a minute to connect

Al3X · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 11:15 pm

Marking22 wrote:

only stuff i can think of is uninstall/reinstall or restart computer
but for my limewire to connect it usually takes about a minute to connect

Ya i let it run for about 5 minutes. Ill try reinstalling it though.

Marking22 · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 11:24 pm

Al3X wrote:

Ya i let it run for about 5 minutes. Ill try reinstalling it though.

oh okay and if that doesnt work there is a program called morpheus its like limewire
and if you download morpheus make shure u get the p2p file sharing one

Al3X · **Posted:** November 14th, 2008, 11:28 pm

Marking22 wrote:

Al3X wrote:

Ya i let it run for about 5 minutes. Ill try reinstalling it though.

oh okay and if that doesnt work there is a program called morpheus its like limewire
and if you download morpheus make shure u get the p2p file sharing one

Have you used morpheus? I looked it up on google but Id like to get your opinion on it first. Ive also heard frostwire Is good but Im not exactly sure what it is.

Bogrollbloke · **Posted:** November 17th, 2008, 7:14 am

http://www.utorrent.com/ + http://www.torrents.to/

I now consider LimeWire a complete waste of time after using the torrents. Micro torrent is the client/torrent downloader, so you need to download that before you can think of downloading anything. http://www.torrents.to/ is just a torrent search engine, put what you want in there and 99% of the time you'll get what you want out + a lot more. It's also, a lot faster. I pulled 250kbps on my Bon Jovi discography, managed to download it in about 2 hours. Which isn't bad for 1.5 gig.

Adbot · **Posted:** November 17th, 2008, 7:14 am

Ranging God · **Posted:** November 17th, 2008, 8:09 am

If it wont connect then it;s your Firewall blocking the port it's using, or it is just simply blocking LimeWire. Go into your FW and make sure Limewireis added to the exceptions list, also look at Windows Firewall

Al3X · **Posted:** November 17th, 2008, 4:19 pm

Bogrollbloke wrote:

http://www.utorrent.com/ + http://www.torrents.to/

I now consider LimeWire a complete waste of time after using the torrents. Micro torrent is the client/torrent downloader, so you need to download that before you can think of downloading anything. http://www.torrents.to/ is just a torrent search engine, put what you want in there and 99% of the time you'll get what you want out + a lot more. It's also, a lot faster. I pulled 250kbps on my Bon Jovi discography, managed to download it in about 2 hours. Which isn't bad for 1.5 gig.

Alright thanks Ill try that

Sworder · **Posted:** November 17th, 2008, 10:40 pm

Frostwire is great. Its Limewire, and Bittorrent all in one so you can search using Limewire, or get torrents and torrent files.

Ranging God · **Posted:** November 18th, 2008, 6:26 am

Sworder wrote:

Frostwire is great. Its Limewire, and Bittorrent all in one so you can search using Limewire, or get torrents and torrent files.

LimeWire supports torrents too.

Al3X · **Posted:** November 18th, 2008, 6:57 am

Ranging God wrote:

Sworder wrote:

Frostwire is great. Its Limewire, and Bittorrent all in one so you can search using Limewire, or get torrents and torrent files.

LimeWire supports torrents too.

Ya I was a bit confused, I thought it did but I wasn't sure. I think I'm going to go with what bogroll recommended.

Ranging God · **Posted:** November 18th, 2008, 8:09 am

Al3X wrote:

Ranging God wrote:

Sworder wrote:

Frostwire is great. Its Limewire, and Bittorrent all in one so you can search using Limewire, or get torrents and torrent files.

LimeWire supports torrents too.

Ya I was a bit confused, I thought it did but I wasn't sure. I think I'm going to go with what bogroll recommended.

I would agree. I only use torrents and torrent programs
My personal set up is.

BitComet and I get my torrents from mininova.org

Al3X · **Posted:** November 18th, 2008, 12:13 pm

Ranging God wrote:

I would agree. I only use torrents and torrent programs
My personal set up is.

BitComet and I get my torrents from mininova.org

Thanks Ill be sure to try those aswell

Wham94 · **Posted:** November 18th, 2008, 12:26 pm

I use both Limewire and uTorrent, Limewire for single songs and uTorrent for albums and stuff. My limewire went like that, just reinstall it and it should work fine.

Al3X · **Posted:** November 18th, 2008, 4:13 pm

Alright well problem has been solved, so no need to post more.