Thanks for all the help LotR, you'll be pleased to know I found the solution!!!

I thought about it after a good night sleep and slipped the NB3 into bridged mode... voilla! No brick wall! LimeWire working happily for ten minutes now in a Turbocharged state!

heres the link on how to do it for the Nettcom NB3. http://www.netcomm.com.au/tutorials/...ridge_Mode.wmv

By the way I removed all expert rules in ZoneAlarm as well, just make sure you allow LimeWire access to the internet in the Program control tab or just click allow as stated in the LimeWire FAQ and so on.

I'd suggest everyone else having connection problems slip their routers into bridged mode. :wink:

After you do that, you'll need to set up a new connection, as well as your existing one, in you OS to authenticate your connection to your ISP.

In Windows XP, go to the new connection wizard, click on the new connections wizard, connect to internet, set up connection manually, connect to an internet connection which requires a username and password, enter you ISP's name, enter your username and so on and your away.

This allows your computer to provide all the info necessary for your internet connection work and basically makes your modem/router a slave device.

any other problems you have with connections after that will be in your software firewall or your ISP/network your computer or LimeWire itself.



All the best and happy P2Ping