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Behind an Invisible Firewall

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Old 10-10-2005
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Behind an Invisible Firewall

Hi im in a wierd situation. All of the sudden my internet or router decided to block me from Limewaire, Steam, Gamespy, and Azureus. It says I have no connection and or I am behind a firewall. Well ive disabled all my antispyware anti adware programs, internal xp firewalls, and I dont have and anti virus programs installed. I also checked my router settings and everything is the way it has been.

Computer: Alienware 51m 7700 XP Home SP2 (With wireless card)
Router: NetGear WGR614v4

I am stumped beyond all belief right now, I dont know whats the problem.
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Old 10-10-2005
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Could your ISP be blocking these?
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Old 10-10-2005
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Did you do anything before this started happening?

ie. reset your router, windows update, etc?
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Old 10-10-2005
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Most likely it is your ISP. Change the configuration of these programs to use non-default ports.
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Old 10-10-2005
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I did port forward for Azureus, and disable my SPI firewall on my router, then restarted it. But ive set everything back to normal.
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Old 10-10-2005
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get a command prompt and try this sequence:
nslookup gamespy.com
you should get the IP address (I see 216.35.123.102, yours may be different) and use it to
tracert ip_address
I get a 16 hop path to that address, and again yours is likely to be different.

If you can get an end-to-end path to gamespy.com, then SOME firewall is your problem.
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