Can you give us a total desciption of your set up: 1. Operating System version, 2. What firewalls you have, 3. ram, 4. HDD space available, 5. Connection type, 6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers, 7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)? 8. Which p2p client (Limewire, Shareaza, etc.)?

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so we can know moer about your problem(s).