Hi petero,
If you don't see the brick wall that's a good thing...means that there's no firewall interfering with LW.
Did you try the download from magnetmix? Did you see a reasonable speed?
Did you try changing ports & did it help?
You could try changing Java versions to this one. Use the
JRE offline installer & remove your current Java version before you install the new one!
Java SE Downloads - Previous Release - JDK 5