Hey, I appreciate the help. Not really into registering and I understand if your'e not into helping me because of it. Firewall is NOT an issue and my ISP used to be just fine and they haven't changed anything. I have XP Pro and a cable modem. Nothing has change on my enduntil 2 weeks ago I wasn't able to connect at all and now I can connect which is cool, but it is extremely slow. Where I was downloading at 35-60 KB, it is now 1-4 KB.