i have the latest version. just downloaded today. I opened two ports for gnutella just as the help section prompted me too. i just completed the process described in the 2nd and third posts above, still nothing. i believe i am connected because when you first run lw there a window that talks about firewalls and lw trying to contact the network to detect if the firewall is up. no problem there. also, i can get to this forum through the lw user interface, so it must be conected to the net. I am not very comp savvy though, so once i think i know what i am talking about it usally turns out i am completely wrong