Hi, i have exactly the same problem, since about one month, I tried everything, now I followed your instructions, I disabled the IP filter from Preferences-security, and still I can't connect to a server (the connections always failed as timed out) and I got a low id as i result firewalled in Kad...are you sure is not an Amule problem?? i'm running on mac os 10.3 panther, next week i'm switching on leopard, will it make any difference?