I've had some strange luck with LimeWire. We're running ver. 2.3.2 with very little success. My daughter has a computer in her room that will not connect to the gnutella network. I've taken the necessary steps to shut down our firewall when she tries to connect, but it still doesn't work. We are using StarBand satellite internet service which is an "always on" connection. With an older computer (266MHz HP) she was able to connect at will and trade mp3s with people. Now, we've upgraded her to a 700MHz HP and it won't connect even though the same network settings are in place on the new machine. I'm baffled.

One strange thing though... one day, she left the program running while trying to connect. I still had the firewall running because I didn't know she was trying. She walked away from the machine for 2 hours and when she returned, it had connected and she was able to download over 100MB of data! What's even stranger is that since that day, it hasn't connected again!

When we try to connect, it just runs through the list of servers saying "connecting...", but never does.

If anyone has any ideas, please pass them our way!

Thanks!
Terry (crsntps@starband.net)