The importance of the offline installer use lies with the danger that using the onli9ne installer, some data packages could get lost and the installation corrupted.

As for your connection problem, hmm, go to Tools>Options>Advanced>Firewall Configuration and look what Listening port you have. There you can also check if UPnP is enabled or not. If it isn't, click it.

Then take the listening number (note it down on a piece of paper) and try to open the TCP and UDP for this listening port in your Firewall (if possible) and router (if possible). But do this while LW is closed. The restart your computer and LW and see what happens. It might take some time till any chnages are visible...

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FOTH

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I'm not sure I know how to do that. I'm no idiot with computers but I'm not as advanced as many folks on this forum. I have trend micro P-cillin security 14 and it's a bit tricky to me. for one thing when I was following instructions to make an exception for limewire you can only check outoging or incoming, not both like in the 2007 version shown in the sample given in the instructions. So I chose incoming even though I don't really know what it is that is "incoming". Downloads, Uploads? but I'll at least try to go in there and look to see if i can find what you're talking about. and I have no idea how to access my router.

The best thing to do for you is to talk to the support team of Trend Micro (they have even a live chat) and they can talk you through the procedure in setting LW up properly:

Trend Micro Live Chat

Cheers
FOTH

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