Ok...my limewire hasn't been working for the last 2 weeks, i've been to FAQ'S and everything else but nothing worked. I have no idea what the problem is, i can click the limewire icon, and it pops up, but when i go to search this window will pop up saying "LimeWire is currently connecting to the network. Your search may not return many results until you are fully connected to the network." So i'll do the search anyway, and nothing happens. This is probably a really stupid question, and the answer is probably something really simple, but if anyone can help me please do.

If you are connecting from the military base, check with some of the network guys if filesharing is allowed. Sounds like they are blocking connections to the gnutella network.

i thought that could be it, but my friends (one of them is next door) has limewire working fine, and mine USED to work.

Take your computer over to your friend's place, and try your machine with his internet cable. If that works, then you know the problem is outside your machine.

If it doesn't, compare your friend's settings with yours, especially the options->advanced->Firewall configurations.

Since you've read the FAQ's and stickies, I'm not sure what else you could try without more detailed info.

Ok....i'll try that, but i doubt i'll get results. thanks for the help.

Get a copy of his gnutella.net file from his preferences folder. It contains the list of connections that work for him.

I doubt it will work, but with luck, that will get you connected and you won't have to lug the machine next door

ok, i'll do that first. But one more thing, i just went back to limewire, and tried a search again, this time a thingie on the bar popped up and said something was unplugged, I checked everything and it all seemed to be plugged in. do you have any idea what this could be?

well, I wouldn't want to guess where your thingy might be plugged into

Still, you are able to post here, so obviously the internet connection is still working. Are you using USB, an ethernet cable or is it wireless?

Perhaps the connection was overloaded: if that's the case, time for the Windows virus/spyware checker and all that horrible other stuff Windows users have to troubleshoot

bleh...its an ethernet cable. As long as i can get limewire to work again.