I am assuming everyone else is having the same connection problems as me. None of my roomates can connect either, it lingers on poor for a second, then goes back to connecting. I brought my laptop to my neighbors house and i was turbocharged in seconds. I dont understand it. HELP!!!

You're most likely being blocked by a firewall. There's probably one connected to your network. Do a search of the forum to find out if this is your problem & what you might be able to do about it.

my firewall allows gnutella, as does another computer, Would somebody elses firewall be blocking my connection

Are you connected via a network? If it's a college netwk, then they'll have their own firewall. Also some companies & schools deliberately try to block p2p use.

no no network, except for my roomates computers

so your room mates are on the network. make shure the source doesn't have any firewalls and it's not college/school/unicersity. as Lord of the rings mentioned they block p2p. I guess it's cause they don't want to get sued by the riaa or anything.