Hey y'all,

When first start LW I have good connection and download speeds in both LW and other apps. However, after about 5-15 minutes my connection speeds and download speeds slow to a crawl.

For example, LW will start off downloading several items at a total of 50-60K and then drift down to about 5-8K total DL speed.

If I start LW and then immediately run OE, I get my e-mail okay. But if I wait 15 minutes, most of my accounts will time out and I won't get my e-mail.

Same thing for surfing. If I run IE immediately after starting LW, it is okay. But after 15 minutes or so, I can't connect to CNN, MSN or even to this site.

System

AMD 2000
1G ram
80G HD, 40G free
WinXP Pro SP2 All patches (firewall disabled)
Java 1.4.2.05
800k +/-DSL
LW 4.0.8
McAffe AV up to date
ZA Pro up to date
Spybot up to date
Ad Aware up to date
Recent scans - clear

Any ideas??

TIA,

RD