Thanks for the reply. Yes, my firewall (Zone Alarm) is set up for both programs to have access to the internet, both as "access" and "server." The Zone Alarm "warning windows" have come up right over top of the Quake games before, so I don't think it's a window waiting ...

Hello everyone. I am having a very frustrating time with something that I hope someone here can help with. I've had Quake 3 Arena installed on my computer (eMachines T3085 with an AMD Athlon XP 3000+, Windows XP HE, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, and an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU) for a while...