I have no clue why it was 6348 and not 6346 then... I've also noticed that the more songs you download, the easier it is to reconnect but you also have to be able to connect a first time before you can download anything. Not that I've had problems at all... anymore . Oh and I thought maybe there's something to do with the javaw.exe program that comes with LimeWire... my firewall asks me if it can connect to the internet everytime I turn on LimeWire.. but it wasn't asking when it wasn't connecting and I think I did something with that when it finally started working. I'm not sure... I don't remember anymore but once it asked me it also turned on. So maybe the port numbers had nothing to do with my problem.