hii...i experienced connection problems...i just wanted to let you know that if you an anti-virus...sometimes that has its own personal firewall...so that may be blocking it...go into your anti-virus and switch off the firewall and make sure windows firewall is turned off aswell...that way limewire will be able to connect...make sure during the process limewire is not open...i hope this works because it did for me and i am not having anymore problems...Shenila...Proud to help