sometimes, it may take limewire quite a while to establish a good connection.

also, limewire is reluctant to accept connections to non-limewire hosts, so if you happen to bump into a lot of gnutella clients from other vendors, the handshaking and connecting can take quite a while.

i suggest you try to outwait limewire. in my experience, if you use limewire regularly and for longer durations, you should have less problems connecting.