Ok because you are in student accomodation do you have a little black box hooked up to your computer that connects you to the internet ??

__________________


If you dont live for something...
You die for nothing...

yep. its blue and the cable comes out of that, and into the computer. my internet works fine for everything else (obvioulsy inm on this)

That's cool...Can you have a look underneath it and tell me the make and model number for it...

__________________


If you dont live for something...
You die for nothing...

hehe no problem. sorry for trouble im completely computer illiterate
Westell.
Versa Link Model 327W

Your Modem/Router has a Nat Firewall within, so by port forwarding it, it should then allow limewire through...

These are your instructions...
This one is for Westell Versalink 327W
Port Forwarding for the Westell Versalink 327W

This one is for Westell Versalink-327W
Port Forwarding for the Westell Versalink 327W

Just check the instructions to see which one is yours...The difference being the -

__________________


If you dont live for something...
You die for nothing...

I think I might have a much better way. Like all of you I could not get Vista to work for the life of me on my new computer with Vista. I had it on my older computer which was XP. I read these post and could not find Macfee so I didn’t know what to do. Just kept playing around and somehow got to internet options. I lowered my security setting there to the lowest and boom! It started to work right away. I didn’t uninstall or reinstall anything. When I’m done downloading what I want I raise the security level again. This should help those that don’t want to uninstall anything or risk the lack of security. You’ll only be unsecure for a few minutes. Hope this helps. SAL