as far as the different ports #'s for the different users i have done that, however the whole thing with the first user account, there is no problem what so ever with me using mcafee & windows firewall together, and it shows the brick wall in front of the earth, however i have full bars. but on the 2nd user account, i just can't connect. and i have all port info different for now, but i did have it all the same, and that did not work, so i changed it to 65000, and then added that to be accepted by mcafee & windows, but still nothing. i did the patch on user account 1, and that worked, however if i were to do the patch for user 2, i would actually be changing it back. so that won't work. any other suggestions would be great. oh, and i am not using a router, i have a high-speed connection with satelite.

So it's not really working properly. Unless of course you are a 'leech' meaning you take but don't share back. With the firewall icon there it means others would greatly struggle to share files from you.

Satellite can be tricky.

Other suggestions in the link I gave.

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