I'm having the same problem as grangey, I have made sure that my windows firewall is not on and also my virus program Norton is set to allow Limewire. I have used Limewire on this platform for many years with no problems. I downloaded the lastest version of Limewire and ever since then I can not connect. I have tried everything to get it to connect and still nothing. I get one bar and when I search I get a message that Limewire is still trying to connect. I hope someone has an answer for this.