Failing connection

[mykeel]

Feel like I have exhausted every avenue to resolve my problem with dropped/lost connection to LW over last two weeks I have had PRO version.

Some details: Windows XPSP2 operating system; firewall in XP has been turned off; 256 ram and Intel Pentium 111 1GHz; hardrive: 11 gb in internal drive and 169 gb available in external drive; DSL; modem: Actiontec DSL Gatewa, no router; connected from house; LW PRO 4.12.10 and Java 2 Standard Edition (just downloaded J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11 upon automatic update notice this morning); Olypen.com is ISP, they do not block p2p's, 'My test worked!'; Have some unused uTorrent files hanging around still but uninstalled that program as too confusing pre-LW experience; 2 weeks of diligently trying to resolve this; and, yes, despite turning XP firewall off still see a brick wall in front of globe.

Problem: Sometimes LW will open and run for a few hours w/o incident but in time fails. Error window says "..machine does not have an active internet connection or a firewall is blocking LW from access to the internet." I have tried everything I can think of. Saw system error ID 4226 so have run the 4226 on-line fix. Connection still dropped after a few hours or as soon as in a minute or two everytime. Tried manual patch and same problem persisted. Patch seems ok but it did not fix the problem. Limit still holding at 1000. Tried troubleshooting and found no tcpip.sys files that matched ALL 3 date/time/size so not sure that rest of troubleshooting suggestions apply. In reading some of the posts re: same problem it is suggested to add an exception for the gnutella port. I can't even stay connected long enough currently to access this option from within LW. Perhaps my answer is in these posts but I can't sort it out. Enough information? Little too much? Tried to not overload but per sugestions of as much info as possible would be
helpful..........Hope someone can help. I'm running out of patience and am about to trashcan the whole thing.

Respectfully,
Mykeel