Thanks. I'll try that

Before you follow those steps. Think. F.i. blocking 192.168.*.* would be blocking you from people like me, who are behind a router and have good connections and premium content for uploading. Didn't read rest of the thread. Pissed me of too much

sleepless, that thread's just a guide & there's more to it than the first page! Nobody's telling General Lee to slavishly follow all the advice in that first post, just some info to read. I've read it & I didn't go & block certain IP ranges

Just a little bit further on in that thread, someone comes along & explains that blocking those hosts is not such a good idea.

AFAIK people who have that & 10. ip's are people who aren't properly configured or/& on networks. So yes, you can still connect to them & downld from them. But impossible to direct connect to them. These days downlding from them is not a problem. I don't block those ip's & have downlded from them many, many a time. Sleepless is it possible for you to configure your system a little better? I presume you don't get a brick wall in front of the blue world firewall icon at the bottom of LW's interface? It may not even be a big issue. But I'd like to explore your options.