Ok I have Limewire Pro. I just upgraded to the newest version but I was having this problem before and after the upgrade. When I fire up limewire, sometimes I get some ultrapeers, sometimes I don't. Either way after about 15 seconds, if I have any ultrapeers they disconnect, and I just get a spam of different IP addresses going by as it tries to connect. Sometimes it will hit on an ultrapeer and connect for a few seconds, then that will drop off. In any case since it is getting IP addresses somewhere to try I have to assume it is able to contact the router.limewire.com or the other gnutella.net addresses. I have put in the gnutella.net file, and it has made no difference. Sometimes I get a solid connection for long enough to do a search, but usually no connection will stay up for longer than a few moments before it drops. I have done the telnet thing and from that can confirm that my isp is not blocking gnutella. It gave me gnutella ok or whatever. I also have a router that I go though. I have configured that to make the pc I am using the default for all incoming connections that are not already mapped, plus I have mapped that specific port that it uses to this computer. I have set up limewire to function from behind a firewall also. I do not know what else to try. Please help me out if anyone has any suggestions.