Pro does connect to more hosts (I read that it connects to 6 unlike Basic's 4 connections), but it may well be host settings as you said: maybe they're behind a firewall (and maybe you're too so it makes it double difficult for LW to connect). It could also be that your ISP is controlling p2p traffic comming its way (try calling them for that). The latter could be the case especially if you don't seem to have much success with the downloads (any dlds).
Telling us that you have cable connection doesn't tell us how fast you can dld/upload since there are many different connection speeds. What connection speeds are you paying for? Also, ISP advertise their internet services using kbps, not kBps. That makes a whole lot of a difference since most p2p apps I know of use the kBps display and 1kBps=8kbps, so if your connection speed is, say, a 512kbps DSL, then you would theoretically be able to dld at 64kBps (which, again, equals 512kbps).
__________________ iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps
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