I'm going to try to be specific.

I recently bought a dell e1705 preconfigured with norton antivirus. I downloaded limewire and limewire has "full access" but for some reason is NOT connecting. I went and checked my network connections and up2p connections and they were UNCHECKED, but correcting this has made no difference. I am connected to a wireless network through a belkin wireless g router. I have NOT used limewire before. My downstairs computer is connected to this same network, but by a land line and connects to the ares network, and still works. I have not tried ares on this computer, because i get the feeling limewire is much better. Help. I wasn't able to find any instructions or even see if belkin supported up2p connections in the link "connection problems, check here first". also the test your connection link on that same page is apparently no longer viable.

Also, windows firewall is disabled, as far as i can tell, mcafee is the only one running.

Limewire claims a firewall is blocking it so i'm not sure what is going on.

I also can't find any info about your router supporting UPnP. It does have a NAT firewall though & this usually means that manual port forwarding's needed. Again though I can't find any info on how to set up port forwarding for your router You might need to contact Belkin's tech support for instructions
http://www.belkin.com/support/

Have you double checked your McAfee firewall settings?
http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml

If this port 6346 test doesn't work http://www3.limewire.com:6346 then it means something's blocking LW's default port.

If your Norton AV includes the Internet Worm Protection, this can cause problems as seen here

email sent, the link provided to check the firewall is the same one at the "try this first" and doesn't seem to work at all.

Also, the zone alarm thing you mentioned does not seem to apply, the only firewall I have running is mcafee, unless zone alarm is some hidden windows default I have not even heard/seen it before.

You said that your comp came with Norton & it was the Norton worm protection that can cause a problem (the person in that thread just happened to have ZA... ignore any reference to ZA!).
It looks like the McAfee link's not working for some reason Try this one instead
http://download.nai.com/products/man...593-0010-1.pdf

doesn't look like that is the problem.

is it ok to post my IP address online because I have another q that would be nice if I could post it

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.

If you're going to forward a port for the Belkin (which is best) then you need to set up a static ip for your computer. Don't choose the same no. as the router uses! Choose another higher such as the last one ending with any no. higher. Also, if you're running LW on more than one computer on the network, then you'll need to also port forward for the other computer(s) using a different port number to the first computer. It will also need to have a static ip different to both the other computer & the router. So for the 2nd computer you might choose a port no. between 49152 - 65535 such as 64049.

BTW if there is a bios error, then it sounds like you may have a computer or device which also uses the same ip number or allocation on the bios (whatever device that might be.) It sounds like a clash of identities. Each device needs to have a separate identity. You may need to cancel your previous port forwarding instructions given to the router & re-do them.

eg: If you're using SCSI devices, each needs its own identity allocated to it, else it will clash with another device & cause major problems. I believe the same principle applies to USB, firewire, etc.