I was really stressing over the connection problem..so I did alot of reading in the forums & alot of users were having the same problem.Well I came across Bulldog's advice.At this point I was willing to try anything & luckily it worked out for me.Thank you Bulldog!

GENIUS BULLDOG! I thought I'd tried everything there was, this did the trick though!! Connection now shows as five green bars, I still get a brick wall indicating there is a firewall, even though I've allowed it through McAffee & Windows Defender. Still works though, so who cares?? Cheers mate, you are a DIAMOND!

I’m glad it worked for you as well. I to have the brick wall indicating there is a firewall but all is well. Have a great one.