Well I am having almost the exact same problem.

I'll give you the low down before I get formal with those questions. I've used LW for a few years now and it's always worked great for me, better than Kazaa better than BearShare and I love it. Recently though, around the last 2 months or so, it gave me the same red bars problem and firewall message. Now I went into control panel and network connections to disable the Firewalls but they were already inactive. I also downloaded the Java Runtime Environment 6 and it said offline so I think that was fine to. Still no results and I am not a happy camper.

1.I'm running Windows XP Professional 2002

2.None that I know of. How do I go about finding one other than control panel?

3.512mb

4.A few gigs, more than 3

5.Cable internet around 1mbps

6.I have a SMC Barricade Router (SMC7004VBR) and a crappy Terayon modem

7.Connecting from a house

8.I have LimeWire 4.10.3 and Java 1.6.0

9.Rogers is my ISP

10.The test says it worked

11.I have my modem connected into my router with one cable going from my router to my computer, one to my Xbox 360, one that goes downstairs to a laptop which isn't used very often and that's it.

12.As I said I've used it without a problem for 2 or so years.

13.Yes I do see a brick wall

Thank you to anyone who can help and I promise to send you a box of Ol' Grannies E-Cookies if you can help me out.

Thanks,
-Alen

Your router has a firewall.
Are you using LW with UPnP enabled within your router or a port forwarded?
If you're not...enable UPnP within your router & choose the UPnP option within LW's tools > options > advanced > firewall config. Apply > ok.

If enabling UPnP doesn't help, try port forwarding thru your router. Follow the instructions below & don't forget the step of setting up a static IP address...otherwise pf won't work.
http://www.portforward.com/english/r...R/Limewire.htm
Remember that LW's listening port & a port forwarded MUST be the same number Good ports to use are those in the range of 49152 - 65535 (try 64049).

Rather than running without a software firewall, it's better to configure your XP firewall to allow LW.
Firewall setup

Well after a long hard process of setting up a static ip and pf limewire (the port number was 55000) it still won't work.

I ended up going on the web-interface for my router (SMC7004VBR) and doing everything it asked but nothing.

I did notice however that UPnP was disabled on my router and when I went to change it to enable it said it already was. Then I disabled and re-enabled and it still doesn't work.

I did use this same router when LW worked prior to these recent troubles.

Any other suggestions?

And I really appreciate the help.

-Alen