im running 3 fire walls, me and my dad share a connection but have diff hubs. and i was able to sign up flawlesly, mabey its there os fire wall, with windows xp it can be disabled , 200 dont have oen neither does andy other odler windows. but if there runnign xp , better disabled it, , all it does is allow thing sinto ur comp and not allwo you to do things out ward, trust me i know, my firend gto hacked continuisly until he disabled his xp firewall, then he was fine, i recomend a software firewall other than xp's build in one.