Thanks for the replies, Crakem I have reset my router during this period for reasons unrelated to my amule problem and still get low IDs. HyperNode, your reply is a bit technical for me, but amule actually worked when i had my router's firewall set at medium. Since I have had problems, I tried it with the router firewall off and on with no luck. I'm running Ubuntu, which I believe uses IPTable and I think I have that set up right using Firestarter.