Looks like it is set up right, and as you said no firewall issue. I would normally say that your ISP has probably started using trafficshaping but you allready mentioned that your friend has the same service.

There are two possibilities that still come to mind regarding your ISP

1. You have a quota on amount of data you get to download/upload during each month and you have exceted that amount this month. This can either be checked by calling up your ISP and asking or you can wait until the start of next month to see if you can download again.

2. They started using portblocking. This can be checked by changing your port (try one between 50.000 and 60.000)

hello everyone. im having the exact same problem that Kyle-r is having and i tryed everything. plus my cable modem provider told me that there is no restrictions on downloads. so i dont know what to do. if anyone can offer some help, it would be greatly apreciated.

well, its windows xp, i got norton firewall (but i got it to"Permit All" when it comes to LW), i belive i got 512 ram, though im not sure, i got 40 gbs left of memory, using cable modem, im conecting from home and i got OneLink as a provider and im using LW Pro 4.12.6 (aka the new one). but i never had this problem its that now i switched from regular dsl to cable dsl and my downloads are extreamly slow. oh, and the test worked.

if you have router configer port forwarding essply if got any firewall or wall by globe, if this doesnt help run avast home free to check for viruses on boot scan http://www.avast.com

well, the avast scan came out clean, and my router is downloading stuff from the web like a champ

well, the model is the SB5101i-NP and yeas, im from Puerto Rico, so whats with the traffic shaping issue. they didnt told me anything on costumer support, and id only had cable dsl since wensday.

well i havent reinstall java, but im not sure how to. plus, i dont know how to check if my modem has firewall capabilites or not. the guy that installed it didnt mencion any, though.

If you read this article, the guy's also had trouble with Onelink using p2p (including LW).
http://shakadatechy.blogspot.com/

This article also suggests the same thing. It's a bit older than the first one but still from 2006
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...hia+bittorrent

Unfortunately, if your provider's using traffic shaping for p2p then there's not a whole lot that you can do You could try changing ports to one between 49152 - 65535. No guarantees though, it depends on if your ISP's monitoring all ports.
Often, people on an ISP's help desk don't even know that this technology's being used!
Read those articles & see what you think. You'll probably find more if you do a search with Google.

wow birdy, i had no idea this was happening. so its not the modem or the router. its the provider. man, i wish i knew this sooner.

Thanks to everyone who helped, i apreciated!!

im not sure how to change the ports, but i'll just google it and it should come through, thought. thans for all the advise