Just curious, do we really pay our money to LimeWire and yet receive no support other than the kindness of other users of the Gnutella forum??? As an additional piece of information to my earlier post, I have another laptop in the house that is also running Limewire---successfully. Their version is 4.12.11 with Java level of 1.5.0-04. The Listen on port is 44687. My version that is not working is again 4.14.12 with Java 1.6.0-oem.....since all sw is the same (and I have disabled Norton and the Windows Firewall in an attempt to isolate problems), I can only assume the 2Wire router/firewall is not the problem since the one machine at the lower release level works fine. Any suggestions would be appreciated (and yes, I tried changing my listening port to be the same as the working machine). Thanks!