I have been trying for several weeks to get Limeware working on my home PC, here is the scenario and my setup -

Limeware worked fine until a few weeks ago, since then its usually just the single bar. We have two PC's in different rooms directed through the same router, on the other PC accessing Limewire has never been a problem, so it cant be the router or my ISP causing the problem. Its a BT voyager 2100 wireless router, my PC is cable connected, the other PC uses wireless. It is an up to 8 mb broadband connection.

Both PC's have the Limewire listening port set to 44718, both are XP, both have the Windows firewall switched on but no other firewalls loaded. My PC is the newer and much higher spec one -
1 gb ram, 160 gb spare disk.

I am using Limewire version 4.13.0, Java 1.5.0_09.

The test you suggest worked.

My big frustration is that on some occasions when I have tried Limewire over the last few week it has connected fine - a 5 bar connection. But then it just gradually winds down and stops, takes anything from 5 mins to an hour two. Usually though it just wont connect at all.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. I have been working on the assumption that something on my PC is blocking the connection (I get the Limewire message that it is the firewall causing blocking, I have also set up incoming and outgoing exceptions in the firewall), but I cant find anything that would do so.

Thanks