I'm not able to connect to the gnutella network thru Limewire and haven't been able to since 12/27/01.

I've used Blubster and it's working fine.

I reinstalled my original LW (v 1.5) and still would not allow me to connect. I also cannot connect to the community.

The program loads fine but simply will not connect, even if I manually add host addresses.

The only firewall I've got is ZoneAlarm, and JAVAVW is set up to function as a server, but to be sure I closed the program, and still no change.

I am downloading v 1.8 in the hopes that it will work, after reading the posts in this thread it sounds pretty reliable.

Today I downloaded but did not install v 2.something because the users at CNET warned me off due to a spyware program which came attached. I started to install the new version and cancelled because the installer kept trying to contact other sites while it installed. So I cleaned up my hard drive and am just wondering what to do if v 1.8 doesn't work either.

Please reply and let me know what the possible problem is. Thanks.