Have I not been posting correctly or have I just found a problem no one knows how to fix? I tried posting on Nov. 6 on a relevant thread with all my specs and got no replies. Decided to post on new thread repeating my specs, still no reply. I've spent weeks working on this using as many stickys and posts as I could possibly read before throwing up my hands and posting. Please, anybody got any suggestions? btw I was connecting to Limewire for years behind a firewall, and the brick wall didn't stop me before.

You didn't say whether you've tried using the router in UPnP mode. I know your model's supposed to be a bit unreliable in UPnP mode but since you've done a firmware update...maybe it's worth a try?

Sorry, I know that's not much help but if nothing else...it'll bump your thread up the ladder & someone else might be able to help

Thanks Birdy, I've actually tried so many of the suggestions on the forum that I can't remember to list them all. Yes I have tried the UPnP setting on the router. I guess by default Linksys has it turned off, so I got excited thinking that was it, but no luck. I've tried it both ways and have it set to on now, even though I read several threads about its unreliability.

I did read somewhere about a fix for the wrt54g. There was a caution about it not being for beginners and port forwarding was preferred. I have tried port forwarding with several port changes with no change. I'm about willing to try anything now, but I don't know where that fix is. Is it official Linksys patch or something else?

Also, one thing I did notice while setting the firewall is that when I set the advanced services for the LAN connection I set the IP to 127.0.0.1 like the LW instructions said, but when I go back to make port changes the IP address is replaced by my own computer's friendly name. Is that normal?

I'm grabbing at straws here.

This might be the fix (not for beginners) you're thinking of:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...843#post196843

If that's not the one, it's probably somewhere within this sticky, there's a fair bit of info about routers if you scroll down the page a bit
Connection problems? Check here first!

I'm not normally using the XP firewall but I just turned it on & checked the firewall config thingy...mine retains the IP 127.0.0.1. I think other people have also had the issue where it reverts back to their computer's name but I'm not sure if it's anything to be concerned about or not
Use the forum search to see if you can find any info, otherwise I'll have a look around later on & see what turns up