I'm going to try to be specific.

I recently bought a dell e1705 preconfigured with norton antivirus. I downloaded limewire and limewire has "full access" but for some reason is NOT connecting. I went and checked my network connections and up2p connections and they were UNCHECKED, but correcting this has made no difference. I am connected to a wireless network through a belkin wireless g router. I have NOT used limewire before. My downstairs computer is connected to this same network, but by a land line and connects to the ares network, and still works. I have not tried ares on this computer, because i get the feeling limewire is much better. Help. I wasn't able to find any instructions or even see if belkin supported up2p connections in the link "connection problems, check here first". also the test your connection link on that same page is apparently no longer viable.

Also, windows firewall is disabled, as far as i can tell, mcafee is the only one running.

Limewire claims a firewall is blocking it so i'm not sure what is going on.

I also can't find any info about your router supporting UPnP. It does have a NAT firewall though & this usually means that manual port forwarding's needed. Again though I can't find any info on how to set up port forwarding for your router You might need to contact Belkin's tech support for instructions
http://www.belkin.com/support/

Have you double checked your McAfee firewall settings?
http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml

If this port 6346 test doesn't work http://www3.limewire.com:6346 then it means something's blocking LW's default port.

If your Norton AV includes the Internet Worm Protection, this can cause problems as seen here

email sent, the link provided to check the firewall is the same one at the "try this first" and doesn't seem to work at all.

Also, the zone alarm thing you mentioned does not seem to apply, the only firewall I have running is mcafee, unless zone alarm is some hidden windows default I have not even heard/seen it before.

You said that your comp came with Norton & it was the Norton worm protection that can cause a problem (the person in that thread just happened to have ZA... ignore any reference to ZA!).
It looks like the McAfee link's not working for some reason Try this one instead
http://download.nai.com/products/man...593-0010-1.pdf

doesn't look like that is the problem.

is it ok to post my IP address online because I have another q that would be nice if I could post it

Sorry, no IPs on the forum... it's against the rules.

doesn't look like that is the problem.

While tooling around on mcafee, i was looking at the personal firewall, and it says that an IP adress is trying to connect to my address every three minutes???? The only difference between this IP and mine is that the last digit is a 1 instead of a three so its pretty close, my other computer or something??? Mcafee has been rejecting this other address because it is a NETBIOS and could cause problems. This happens every three minutes regardless of Limewire running, should I allow this IP address??? I guess I'm wondering this because i would like to disconnect my firewall for 10 minutes or so to see if that changes things, but I don't want that thing jacking me if I do so.

thanks for your continuing help.

Sounds like it could be your other computer, there's some info on netbios here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbios

However I couldn't be 100% sure. I can ask someone else but I don't think he's online at the moment... might take a while to get an answer.

This idea courtesy of stief...

"Why not suggest installing LimeWire on the base computer, the one he is running Ares on. At least he could then see if LW will work on his network."

will it make a difference that my old computer is running on an actual ethernet line from the router to the computer and my laptop is going through a wireless connection?? Also, I don't know if this makes a difference, but my wireless networking card is an Intel PROSet/Wireless.