LW is not designed to be able to browse oneself. However for some odd reason some people can. What's more important is whether you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? And when LW is open, click Tools->Options & go to Bug report & click for an example. In the window that appears scroll down to the part that says: "Recieved incoming this session". If it says ‘True’ then LW has no problem with firewalls. You'll find it about half to 2/3 way down the report.

If you select Direct Connect type search & your ip is listed, then that in itself suggests you don't have a firewall issue. That is the ip you would give someone else to direct connect to you.

Thanks LOTR, I presume I dont have FW issues,apart from the fact that I cant be browsed, can you answer this,There are many hosts that you can't browse,presumably behind FWalls? I also presume that I can't be browsed(because I can no longer browse myself, and I came across my address in a search,clicked browse and couldn't)If therefore I have say a new to LWire file,which i put in my 'Share' folder,if no one can browse me, then presumably LWire will not 'See' the file???or are ALL files in ALL shared folders logged somewhere?Does this limit the network?
Thanks for help, sorry it's more than one question(Again)
PS Still cant resume incompletes,resuming eating my own head instead !
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