Hi,

I'm not a techie, however, I have Limewire Pro, pentium 2 laptop and a router connecting to broadband adsl.

I have not manually configured the router in any way other than how I was asked to when setting up my broadband service.

OK,

I have a green circle in the bottom left, it says I'm sharing 0 files. There are a few pdfs in the Sharing folder. I cannot get the Sharig folder to appear when I try to add folders, which currently shows there are no shared folders. When I try to add a folder, and select the Shared, it simply refuses to accept it, whereas selecting another folder works ok. I've read that this migt be a windows media player affecting the write access to the folder, but its not that.

Thus, nobody's uploading.

Downloading I get the awaiting sources, and generally have had very limited success even with 4 star downloaders.

I have tried forcing IP with no more success than not. I can check my IP address but wouldn't know where to put it, only one piece of advice given was to force the IP and put it in some field in the appropriate menu, but it is a longer number than the port that's in there.

Also, I've read that on the one hand, if I haven't configured my router its best to leave it so people must Push, but I don't know if the router is figured right or not. All in all, the advice on the forum is pushing me this way and that, and any changes I've made have had no improvement I can tell.

What does the Connected Hosts tab mean, I see some computer IP addresses, 5 in all, are they connected to me, if so, why is nobody downloading. I had a message saying that I am a leaf shielded by an ultrapeer, does this mean I can't upload?