I CANNOT GET THE BARS IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER TO FILL UP TO MORE THAN ONE BAR AND I HAVE A FIRE WALL LOGO NEXT TO IT AND I HAVE TRIED EVERY THING. WHEN I SEARCH IT SAYS "LIMEWIRE IS CURRRENTLY CONNECTING TO THE NETWORK YOUR SEARCH MAY NOT RETURN MANY RESULTS UNTIL YOU ARE FULLY CONNECTED" I HAVE TRIED TO LEAVE IT FOR A WHILE BUT IT WILL NOT GAIN ANY MORE BARS. (I AM CONNECTED AS IT SAYS UNDER FILE THAT DISCONNECT IS THE ONLY ONE I AM ABLE TO SELECT)

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some details of your set up would help. Start here for answers: Connection problems? Check here first! (click on link) as your problem might be either or both your softw firewall &/ your modem/router internal NAT firewall.

ayo... is there any easier way to do this? that's mad complicated!

It's not that bad really!! It looks more complicated than it is. Start by doing this test & see if it works
http://www3.limewire.com:6346

Make sure you're only using 1 software firewall & set it up to allow LW. There are instructions for the most common firewalls here
Firewall setup

Now what are your details?

OS(Win XP etc)
LW & Java version (help > about LW & you'll see)
Firewall you're using
Modem/router brand & model
ISP
Connection type (DSL etc)
Where you connect from (home, school etc)
Are you sharing a connection with other computers
Is this your first try with LW

I'm using Windows XP
I'm using Java 2 Rumtime
I have a Motorola SB4200 SurfBoard Cable Modem
A D-Link 802.11g Wireless Router
Wireless Connection, but technicly its Cable Modem
I connect from home
I do share a wireless connection with my brother's laptop, and my sister's desktop.
And No this isn't my first try with limewire, I've been using this for about a year now. I know why this happened it's a long stoy but I'll tell you. Just recently I had gotten an Xbox 360, and decided I wanted to hook up to Xbox Live, but It would be way too much work to run a Ethernet cable from my den all the way here in my room so I bought a wireless ethernet bridge. I tried hooking it up but still I had problems with it, so I called microsoft, and they told me to configure some things and do a power reset on my Wireless Router and Cable Modem. So I did, nothing worked, then they told me to call D-Link. D-Link didn't tell me much of anything except how a few things work so they told me to call microsoft back, I called microsoft still nothing, then they told me to call my ISP and and get a newIP adress. So I did, that didnt work, so I ended up calling microsoft backand saying still nothing. So then they told me I had to call D-Link and configure my Firewall with my router. But ever since then I couldn't because D-Link's been closed for the holiday weekend, So then me and my brother said we didn't want to wait and tooled with the firewall ourselfs, and I blame it on that stupid peice of **** from Microsoft told me to get a new IP adress from my ISP and ever since then my whole internet's been jacked up. It really ****** my off and I'd beat the crap out of whoever told me to do that I need help, but help from someone who knows wht they're doing not some stupid dude that dropped out of high school you what I'm saying?

Well I dropped out of university after completing 4 qualifications so I guess that counts me out.

If you want high tech support, I suggest you go to such a site. There's plenty around.

Wireless devices have internal NAT firewalls. So to use such a one with LimeWire, you have the option of enabling UPnP or else, forwarding (opening) a port. Check under the UPnP section of the link I gave above for D-Link devices.

you count, at least you sound like you what your talking about, that Upnp thing is way too complicated for me though I need you to clarify it a much a you could in a list of things to do. this is tearing me apart man I seriously need all the help I could get.

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!! LIMEWIRE IS UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL!!!!! Strangely it just started working out of the blue this is great now I can sleep at night.

To 2pac aka Makeveli what did you do to solve ur problem with limewire i have the same problem as you my limewire has only one bar starting connection. My limewire is a 4.14 is pro. i don't have firewall but there is still a firewall icon in my limewire. i also have timewarner internet i think this is the problem.

Follow these 3 easy steps:

1. Uninstall limewire
2. Delete folder C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Limewire
3. Reinstall limewire, this will definately work for you guys.

The trick is deleting the Limewire Application Data folder. If you cant find it, do a seach for limewire on your computer. Once it shows the files and folders, delete the Lime wire application data folder.