I see most of the threads here are about people that can't connect, so I hope this doesn't get overlooked. I've looked through a bunch of these threads, and although very similar, this doesn't seem to be the same exact situation. I've been using LimeWire for awhile now, and it had always worked fine. But it hasn't connected for quite awhile now. Yes, I have been getting the "Your machine does not appear to have an active Internet connection or a firewall is blocking LimeWire..." message, and I only have one little green bar. I do use a router and a firewall, but I always have been and LimeWire had worked fine. I made sure everything was still enabled for LimeWire, and I took my firewall off for awhile, but it still did nothing. I went to the page... http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ and it says " Your test worked!". What else could possibly be the problem? Could it be something with the current version? It's pretty new, and it seems like this has been going on since I got it. Any help is much appreciated.