As some extra info, I don't have a firewall. I am on DSL thru a router. the other puter on the lan works on limewire, and has 6346 for all the ports. I just deleted limewire and java, again, and installed new limewire 2.8.6 along with java2 runtime enviroment with no difference. I have ran scandisk, check disk, antivirus program, and ad-advise. They have found no problems. I have tried versions 2.5.5, 2.7.3, 2.8.5, and 2.8.6, all do the same thing. I was running 2.5.5 with no trouble. I stopped using it for about a month. Then about 2 weeks ago, I went on to try and download some things and that is when the trouble started. Nothing changed except for me trying the different versions. And that was because of the problem when I first tried to get on.