Bearshare- It's not working anymore.
 

So all the sudden, starting about two weeks ago my Bearshare won't get a connection. The light at the top right of the program that is supposed to be green is blinking red. I followed the program's link to their troubleshooting website and it's really not anything that they list. I'm not behind any firewall and all my security settings are generally low (shh!) :)

Any reason this could have suddenly happened? I even tried reloading the software and didn't get anywhere.

Thanks for any info.
-Tim

dude I have no idea.. Sometimes my soulseek does that then it just connects on the third open. all I can recommend is using a different program like limewire or soulseek.. good luck though.

damn bearshare is still around? I haven't used it for prolly 2 years now. I use LimeWire Pro or Shareaza for any needs I have on Gnutella. Maybe go to the bearshare forums at Zeropaid.com and ask there?

Have you recently installed or turned on a firewall? Recently installed any security updates to said firewall?

Who is your internet service provider? Any chance they could have modified port settings on your connection?

If your running XP and have installed any updates, some of them will turn on the WinXP firewall and that will kill you. If not I'd download Limewire or another gnutella client and see if that works, maybe your ISP is blocking some ports.

As many people have already said, any new windows updates may have caused this failure of program. Service Pack 2 is a garuntee to haulting the performances to programs like that.

Yeah I recently installed SP2, however, like I said in my original post, I'm not using the firewall. Are there other aspects that could hurt it?

Also, I just tried Bearshare again (like I do everyday) and it's working, but with yellow/green flashing lights and I think it's going to go out soon...

My ISP is Time Warner...
-T

Wow, I haven't used Bearshare in years. I suggest you forget about Bearshare and instead utilize Shareaza. It connects to G1, G2, EDonkey2K, and supports Torrent downloads. As far as resolving the current problem: If the SP2 firewall is indeed disabled, and there is no 3rd-Party firewall in use, perhaps the ISP is blocking traffic on the ports Bearshare needs to use. Try another client and see if it can connect to G1/G2. Good luck, keep us posted.

I'm a longtime Bearshare user and I just downloaded Shareaza to try it. And there's some window that came up when I installed it saying it can't connect to many users in you're running SP2. Anyway around this? Bearshare never had this problem even after the SP2 install.