Hi

For what it's worth, my money says you were just lucky before. From my view of the system, there has been no substantive change in the means of performance as we adopted each new upgrade. The developers are merely tinkering with the package, making small incremental amendments rather than major amendments. I have only averaged about a 5% success rate of attempted connections but, once connected, I have worked to achieve a high download success rate since adopting LW. I am content with life under the current 2.9.8 on OSX 10.2.4 and would see little point in going back to an earlier version. In earlier threads, I have seen references to addresses for ealier versions. If you are determined to step back, browse through the back catalogue of advice.