Well for me this is also happening I live in NJ also yesterday I reformated my computer thinking it was something wrong with the pc and my ip gets renewed and everything I download Limewire again install it etc.. and it works pretty good I come on today and it doesnt work optimum online is doing something and I am guessing I will have to call because they are ethier blocking something like it was said before or something weird is happening because how can this happen to mostly optimum online users only..