cant get any file sharing program to work!!!

i used to have edonkey and i worked awesome,i loved that program!!! When they got shutdown and it automatically uninstalled it caused big issues for me. I tried downloading kazaa,winmx,limewire and with all of them the same problem...i download the program and it wont connect,i checked everything and i cant figure it out,i am pulling my hair out over here,i am not super computer savvy,so any help would be appreciated,i am running windowsxp with a wireless card,and i disabled the firewall on the card and from the main computer,it worked fine with edonkey the way it was. Any know whats wrong????

Research port forwarding that is probably your problem

Yup, same thing happened when I got my router. Get the xp sp2 patch if you have service pack 2.

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Originally Posted by ram82082

Yup, same thing happened when I got my router. Get the xp sp2 patch if you have service pack 2.

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+1

You might also want to check your tcp/ip half connection settings. Google it for more info. by default SP2 only sets ti to 10, which is way too slow for filesharing usually.

i had similar troubles with utorret awhile ago and then used the patch people are talking about to set the half open connection and then things went great.