I used dial up with LW for 3 years. I didn't get such slow speeds as you apparently received. I also get faster adsl speeds yet I'm at the bottom end of adsl (256/64 kbps). I get 27 KB/s speeds in total, sometimes I get individual downlds into the 20 KB/s. But since I generally downld more than one file at a time ... On dial up, I downlded some might large files & wasn't suffering 1 KB/s speeds & I was using LW Basic.

I suspect the problem is either with your set-up, your isp, or your sources for downlding the files. Particularly if you're not uplding at the same time on dsl or higher.