I knew that the dialup accel. Would not affect the speed of LW I just put that there incase it meant anything to you. I forgot to mention that I use win 2000 pro I don’t like XP. I uninstalled my firewall because I was still having problems. I didn’t do anything after I started LW but after about 20 min. of downloading the active no internet connection thigy popped up and my downloads stopped! I am getting tired of this! I alow a max of 3 downloads at once which equals out to about 1 kbs per download. So what next? I am not acting as a ultrakeeper as you suggested so I don’t know what to do. So in other words- more help please!