Same trouble here... connecting forever and then nothing. I did the port forwarding setup on my netopia router but it didn't help. It even had a built in setting to allow gnutella to run (a long with a list of a 100 other games) but turning that on didn't help. What can I do this blows? I have what I believe the to be the latest version of gnucleus 2.2.0.0...

Also any recommendations on other spyware free clients (besides limewire/alphalime - I don't dig the java stuff...)