I have SP2 for XP. I figured that I would have to have 6346 forwarded once you mentioned the router. I forgot about the router seeing that my puter is actually at my gurlfriends house. Her brother manages the router. Now I have to explain to him what I need done. He wont let me touch his computer for some strange reason so I hope he gets it right. Limewire doesnt have spyware? Maybe I'm thinking of bearshare. I can get websites to load in the browser window but it takes a while for them to load. I'm willing to bet that the reason it takes the sites so long to load is the reason why my connections are timingout.