I've been hving mch the same problem as u guys. I did what LW help told me, went thru all the steps but when I put in the port nbr as in step 2 it told me it was already in use. Now, I'm not sure if there is a list of port nbrs to use but I tried putting in different ones but none were valid. I hv ms, wndows xp, lot of everything. I hv limewire for a few years, news edition, and now connect. I did the test and it worked. I do not use the windows firewall, my antivirus is Panda. I know the connection was never denied. I have no idea why all of a sudden I cannot access it. Can anyone please help. Thanks