Hi, long time user of LW & have always had one prob or another come up & eventualy can correct it but I've had this ongoing prob for the last wk or so & would really appreciate some help on this matter.

Ughh, where to begin, ok I recently had to connect a router which was it's own set of unique probs but finaly got the whole firewall & port forwarding things figured out ( I believe) so now at least I was able to establish a connection with limewire where before I couldnt even do that. So after getting the router config setup & after days & hours of relentles persistance & effort I finaly saw the most beautiful thing, my connection to limewire was all bars full & green, OMG I thought finaly, my eyes almost swelled with tears of joy. So I happily searched a bunch of files & began to DL them, some are downloading as I type this but after having to reset my PC & restarting LW the downloads started downloading automaticaly right where they left off as they're supposed to but the connection bar shows no connection & when I try to search for files it constantly states your search may not return any results as LW is currently trying to connect. Even while I can see there must be a connection as I mentioned the files are still downloading atm so can anyone please shed some light on this, any ideas? Help on this would be greatly appreciated.

the router is Linksys model# BEFSR41 version 4.0
my PC is Dell XPS 400 with 1 GB ram & dual 250 GB hardrives with windows XP home edition OS & I did use the test link wich said it worked, Broadband LW version 4.12.11 & Java 1.5.0_11 & yes brick wall in front of blue world thanks. ( :