Alright, I'll try that.

Nope. I am now connected directly into the wall, no firewall or anything, and I still have the firewall icon infront of the planet, and continue to get 1/5 bars... it works on all other machines on the router.

I've tried replacing my ethernet cords and switching router ports.

OMG, WTF?!

...IT'S WORKING! For some reason.. I *HAVE* to have my firewall up for LW to work?! I mean, I'm not complaining... but as soon as I ran LW with my firewall (Kiero Personal Firewall), it popped up a message to which I clicked yes, then I got 5 bars and no firewall icon infront of my planet... which doesn't make sense!

But I'm not complaining.

Wait. Falso alarm, false alarm.

To say I *had* 5 stars... It worked for all of three minutes once again, and then BAMF! Back down to 1 star. Oh woe is me... WHY MUST YOU TEASE ME SO? I managed to download another WHOLE 10% of my song for the brief moment LW worked.

...Whoopee... :/

I guess I'm getting somewhere.

Now, whenever I start up LW, it connects - 5 stars, no firewall - for a minute before giving me the ol' 1/5 bars again.

Also, LW lets me open up multiple copies of itself, and won't shutdown properly - I have to go into task manager and end the "LimeWire.exe" process because when I close it, it hangs on the "shutting down window bar gauge" thing.

Just an odd anomaly I thought I'd mention.

One last thing that I noticed: My speed will continually rise - 2, 8, 32, 47, 68... I got up to 110kb/s when downloading my song, then it slowly dropped.. 100, 87, 42, 30, 20, 0... back to 0 kb/s before finally giving me 1/5 bars again.

Yes sometimes LW does that don't know why about multiple copies. Task manager is best bet otherwise it would eat up too many resources. So are you connected directly as you tried or with the router?

I tried connecting directly with still no success. I put my Router back in, and that's when it started almost-connecting; but I have got this in the past.

Half past twelve
And I'm watching the late show in my
flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside my window as I look around
the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my
prayer

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme
gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the
darkness to the break of the day

Movie stars
Find the end of the rainbow, with a fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of T.V.
I open the window and I gaze into the
night
But there's nothing there to see, no one in
sight
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear
my prayer

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme
gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the
darkness to the break of the day

Gimme gimme gimme a
man after midnight...

There's not a soul out
there
No one to hear my prayer

Gimme gimme gimme
a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the
shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

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There we go, some ABBA is bound to draw someone back to this thread.

...Hello...? Anybody.....?

*Aka: Bump*

================================================== ================================================== ================================================== =========================w alternatives. To stay alive, LimeWire decided to throw in the towel and began work on a DRM client.
or does this have something do do with service not working . if so can you advise what kind to get that will work Thanks