well, its windows xp, i got norton firewall (but i got it to"Permit All" when it comes to LW), i belive i got 512 ram, though im not sure, i got 40 gbs left of memory, using cable modem, im conecting from home and i got OneLink as a provider and im using LW Pro 4.12.6 (aka the new one). but i never had this problem its that now i switched from regular dsl to cable dsl and my downloads are extreamly slow. oh, and the test worked.