lord, thanx for the advice, i had looked thru these links earlier though. tried setting up proxies, it didnt work thats why i'd given up. as i understand, i'll need to go thru lot of them before i find one that works for me...bit of a hassle! anyway i am going to try again after a bit - i have exams coming up - but until then if anyone figures out a way to beat packet shaping...
maybe LW developers need to take this into account - lots of ISPs all over the world seem to be doing this kinda stupid sh*t [optimum online posts...gawd!] we need a better way than the rather inconvenient setting up proxies i think...