Sorry, no IPs on the forum... it's against the rules.

doesn't look like that is the problem.

While tooling around on mcafee, i was looking at the personal firewall, and it says that an IP adress is trying to connect to my address every three minutes???? The only difference between this IP and mine is that the last digit is a 1 instead of a three so its pretty close, my other computer or something??? Mcafee has been rejecting this other address because it is a NETBIOS and could cause problems. This happens every three minutes regardless of Limewire running, should I allow this IP address??? I guess I'm wondering this because i would like to disconnect my firewall for 10 minutes or so to see if that changes things, but I don't want that thing jacking me if I do so.

thanks for your continuing help.

Sounds like it could be your other computer, there's some info on netbios here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbios

However I couldn't be 100% sure. I can ask someone else but I don't think he's online at the moment... might take a while to get an answer.

This idea courtesy of stief...

"Why not suggest installing LimeWire on the base computer, the one he is running Ares on. At least he could then see if LW will work on his network."

will it make a difference that my old computer is running on an actual ethernet line from the router to the computer and my laptop is going through a wireless connection?? Also, I don't know if this makes a difference, but my wireless networking card is an Intel PROSet/Wireless.

Sorry but I wouldn't have a clue about wireless Check this thread in the morning... might have a couple more replies by then!