I too am having a problem with establishing a connection with any of my P2P programs. I've tried quite a few: Ares, WinMX, Kazaa, Morphous, and LimeWire. None of them work, and all have the same problem. They try to establish a connection for hours, and never do. I use the Norton Internet Security 2005 package. It works well, and is easy to configure, And it clearly states in bold text that all of the P2P programs which I previously mentioned have full, unrestricted access to the internet. "Then why?" I wonder, do all my programs say that I don't have an internet connection? The even more puzzeling thing is that they all worked for a day or two before having this problem. Well, I found this forum, and thus a new possibility was presented to me: "Is my ISP blocking my P2P software?" Like the guy that posted before me, I called Cox Communications, touched up on a few other compliants that I had, meanwhile making some conversation about P2P software and connection problems.

She said, and I quote, "We do not filter P2P internet connections."

Well then, W T F?!

She did say, however, that Cox does block certain ports. These ports are listed here:

http://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp...ntredirect.asphttp://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp...ntredirect.asp

Now, I haven't tried rerouting my connection through a different port yet. I still need to figure out how to do that in the first place.

And if this doesn't work, I'm going to be really pissed. And Cox can take their name and shove it up one of their own ports.