Thanks for the reply:

1 Window xp
2 windows, have enabled as per instruction. I am running Kaspersky anti-virus but does not have a firewall
3 256mb
4 40gb open
5 dsl
7 home
8 4.10, 1.5
9 Telus
10 no
11 your test worked
have configured firewall and double checked
12 result is false
13 download - 1288 kbps, upload 529 kbps.

Any thoughts?

Aces

ps in the lower right corner the the icon for firewall says limewire has detected a firewall.