Errr, now I am really confused. Just out of stubbornness I tried down loading from LW again today and there is a noticable improvement. I downloaded one file at 150 KBps, quite an improvement over 0-1 ps. While I am quite pleased that the 'problem' has been rectified....I didn't change anything today to cause the fix.... The only logical answer I can come up with is that there was a problem with the LW network that was found and fixed today..anyone else have similar results today?
I still want to thank LOTR, Steif and everyone else that posted helpful information on this thread. I have learned quite a bit from this thread alone regarding set up, tweaks and fixes and appreciate the time and research that was put in to help find problems.