my version of slimewire is doing exactly the same damn thing. The last time i did a clean install it went to hell in a handbasket. The older version has always worked better and would connect. this one having the extra tab (in addition to search, monitor, library) that says "connections" sucks. Has exactly the same problems, only one green bar and it isnt the firewalls, because you can completely shut the firewalls down and the damn thing will not work. It is the software or the network, so why not fix it, not even the free 4.12 version one can download from downloads.com works any different. Is this a way of squeezing people to get them to be weak minded enough to buy the pay version??? if so, it sure as hell wont work here, otherwise make a functional product. With no firewalls or anti-virus on a funtional software product will work and cannot blame computer or firewalls or other **** for its failure!!!!!!!!!!!!so slimewire what is the problem with your product that more than one person in completely different parts of country and diff components still have identical results with your product??? what the hell is the fix