Hello,

I have practically no knowledge of the inner workings of computers. I just stumbled onto this site, but maybe someone can help.

I am having problems connecting to Bearshare. I am running Bearshare 4.5.1. It kept prompting me to upgrade, but when I did, we couldn't download anything without paying a fee, so we deleted that version and reverted back to the old one. The old one works every once in a while for maybe 10 minutes, but usually there is a red light saying "hosts not connected." I am running on a cable DSL connection with Windows XP. I have read some of these posts and I tried changing my port number in the setup--connections part of the taskbar on Bearshare but nothing happened. I also tried checking my firewall connections and Bearshare is on the exceptions list.

Any suggestions?