Well, I tried it without and it worked great. I got a download avg of 170Kbps. However, I figured I'd try it with the hub again just for the hell of it. Same result....170Kbps. ???? I don't know what I did but somewhere I did something that worked.

I still show all of the connections as OUT and I still have the firewall picture. I'm going to try Zone Alarm Pro to see if the configurable port features help.