I also have had trouble getting a connection with only one bar lit up. I was using Limewire just fine for about 6 months when about five days ago my signal was stuck at 1 bar. I have un installed and re installed Limewire while also dropping it out of my Firewalls exceptions list and entering it back again.

I read something about the router and a firewall but none of that makes sense to me. If the router has a firewall how do I find it and make changes?

I have checked for viruses and the sort and can find none. I have several logos in my firewall listings and many of them are not lit up with color and they all say (This Rule is Temporarily Disabled). I use Defender Pro Anti Virus and Firewall. Now I have checked the boxes on the temporarily disabled sites but when I go back all my changes are reversed. I use an Actiontec 56 k External Modem and my personal computer is a Dell Dimension 8200. I can't remember how much hard drive I am using. I know I have cleared a ton of stuff out of it so that should not be the problem. Any help on this would be much appreciated.

On a side note, this has nothing to do with p2p or Limewire but my system restore has not worked since I got this used computer and I have checked to see if I have too much garbage in my hard drive. I have plenty of room but this problem still exist. Could something be corrupted? This is really not a big issue so if no info is available for this that is fine, I just want an idea what may have went wrong with Limewire for it to just stop working.