took a time out from the issue with my conductor to work on some projects that "had" to be done. so the steps I took tonight when firing up the conductor was: disable wifi, plug in cat5 cable, insert cf card, plug in conductor, pull up conductor v3 utility, and poof! it flashed up show waiting, but poof, just as fast went away. I am no computer guru, but I have searched everywhere on my computer for any possible firewall and they are off. both windows firewalls are off, I use security essentials by Microsoft for my antivirus protection, no firewalls there to be disabled. I have checked all custom settings in windows firewall for unicast, outgoing, incoming and all seem like they are in the right position for allowing things to work both ways.
duane