My LimeWire program absolutely will not connect to the Gnutella network no matter what I do; I've tried absolutely everything I saw in the forums, and still LimeWire doesn't work at all. Here are my system details.

1. OS version? Windows Vista, but the problem keeps happening even if I run LimeWire as an administrator.
2. What firewalls you have? Windows Firewall only.
3. How much ram? 1 GB
4. Hard Disk space available? 15.4 GB
5. Connection type? Satellite
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? HughesNet HN7000S
7. Where are you trying to connect from? Home
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? LW 4.18.8, Java 1.6.0_11
9. Who is your ISP (Internet Service Provider)? HughesNet
10. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? "Your test worked!"
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? No.
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. I've been using LimeWire since 2005.
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? Yes.
14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled? My modem won't disclose that information.
15. What security programs are you using (antivirus etc)? avast! antivirus 4.8
16. What country are you living in? Sometimes there are ISPs with the same name in more than one country (eg Clearwire in the USA & also in Ireland). USA
17. Has anything in your setup changed recently? Have you updated your version of LW or Java? Have you added any new software or new hardware? Have you updated any software? Have you moved house, changed internet plan or ISP etc etc? I uninstalled LimeWire once to replace it with BearShare, but BearShare proved to be unreliable, downloading WMA files when I really needed MP3 files (and I could not even convert the WMAs to MP3s!). So I
trashed BearShare and reinstalled LimeWire, and that's when the big trouble started.

So should I just give up on Gnutella altogether? What am I to do?

Brandon Taylor