Connecting to Kazaa Lite

[Confused]

I just added Aol DSl and now we can't connect thru kazaa, kazaa lite or morpheus. We're connected through a router would this make a difference.

Please help

[ryan2_2]

does the router have a firewall built in?

[phalkon30]

also make sure you are on an unrestricted account, when i was on aol i had a very slightly limited account, but no external programs (including IE and Netscape) would be able to connect, if i went on my dads urestricted account, it worked fine

aol may have its own firewall

also, aol does strange things to the registry, i had to reload windows before i could get rid of all the settings when we dropped aol, did you have dial up aol before you upgraded, and did kazaa work with that?

[Confused]

I don't know if the router has a firewall built in, how do I check this and it did work before on dialup.

Thanks

[phalkon30]

what brand router?

i have a linksys router, i know it has a firewall, the way i can edit the settings is to....

first open your browser (i know it works in IE, so use that if possible), then type in your default gateway which should be http://192.168.1.1/ , if it brings up a window asking for your user name/password, dont put anything in the user name blank, type "admin" without quotes, in the password box, then if it brings up a window with options for your router...you should see some options about a router

again i only know this works with a linksys router, if you have a differnt type, this may not help at all

[Confused]

It is a lynksys router , I went to the wesite, but nothing there lets me changes filters or firewall options.

[phalkon30]

you have just hit an area that i dont know much about, hopefully somebody with a little more experience could help you from this point, but knowing you have a firewall may help you later on

make sure you can have other programs access the internet through aol, for example try internet explorer, if that works, im out of ideas, if you can't browse the net through IE, then check options in aol, also right click on IE (it should be on your desktop), and go to properties, go to the connections tab, im not sure how aol connects, but possibly their website has some information on how your settings should be

[bobhss]

If it's a Linksys BEFSR41/BEFSR11/BEFSRU31 you will have to upgrade the firmware of the router to work with AOL's Parental controls.

Find out more about that one at: http://www.linksys.com/download/firmware.asp?fwid=1

I don't know if that'll make the filesharing work, but that's my 2 cents.

[phalkon30]

confused: even if you dont think this is the problem, i followed that link, i updated our firmware (ours was almost 3 yrs out of date), our ping rates and general speed on the net have improved quite a bit, you may want to do this update

ty bob, after reading the release notes, i think you may have got this discussion going in a good dirrection, even if you didnt, you did help somebody