Yeah sorry didn't leave enough details

Running Windows XP SP2 in-built windows firewall
AMD 2Ghz processor
Home PC
160 gig HD (loads of free space)
512 megs ram
Broadband connection up to 8 Megs (usually get around 4meg speed)
Modem Speedtouch 330
ISP Tiscali
done the com 6346 test it's fine
No shared connections
LW 4.12.11
Java 1.5.0_09
it's a new problem been using for quite a while without problems up to now
have firewall icon in LW when running
have one green bar 4 red bars in connection area

I'm still stumped :-(

Cheers