don't believe all these people would be so stupid as to not connect to internet before running LW. I, too, have sat here watching it endlessly contacting and then abandoning hosts, never connecting to any. It isn't just LW, none of the other gnutella clients work, either. They all used to, but not any more. Winmx didn't work, either, until they told me to download a .wsx file, now it works reasonably well. No problem at all getting into Napster. At first I thought it might be the proxy server my isp forces me to use, but Toadnode, which is supposed to like proxies, doesn't work either. I am running Blackice fw but I don't think it's that; when I disable it, same problem. What the hell is going on?