First of all, thank you Ursula (I once courted a lovely girl called Ursula if you knew how old I am, you would say " you must have good memory" lol) for your input, it's most appreciated. Zabaarath, I am afraid I am unable to give you any more info. than I already have, except to say my Modem is a Conexant Soft K56 Modem(M). Regards luya56

Have a look on PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall and try and find your router on there to see if it's got a firewall.

It might be best if you could post these details...
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...-you-post.html

As the Conexant Soft K56 Modem is a built in dial up modem and doesn't have a firewall, if you are using broadband, cable, dsl, your modem/router is the little black box that connects you to the internet, if you have a look underneath it you will find the make and model number for it...

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Zarabaath and wondering why, thank you for your reply. I looked underneath the Modem and it's a BT Voyager 105. It's a basic router and after Googling, it appears to me it doesnt have a Firewall. I am running on Win XP Home, I have 768mb RAM, 38GB Hard Drive free space and and an external Hard Drive with 280GB free space. As stated in my initial post, I have AVAST Anti Virus Free and ZONE ALARM Firewall free installed, both detected on AOL start up....luya56

Who is your ISP ??
What Java version are you using at the moment as well ??

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wondering why, apologies for not responding sooner, I have been away for a few days. My ISP is AOL but being a beginner I am unable to tell you which version of Java I have. When I click on Java and then Properties it says alongside File Type-- File Folder...luya56

Wondering why, I should have looked in my program control in the first place. The Java version is 5.0110.3 Regards ...luya56

You could try these fixes...
Try uninstalling all versions of Java from the add/remove programs and then re-install the JRE 5.11 offline version....
Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11

If that does not help with your problem try deleting your preference folder/s...
Fixes for Limewire when LW isn't operating as it should

But I really think your firewall may be due to your ISP...
Digital Spy Forums - AOL Speed Trouble
» AOL 9 Client Reported As Badware And Dangerous » Soft32.com News
How to Use AOL® Firewall

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