Whoo hoo!

I think I got it! I went through setting up the port forwarding. Let's just say I took my time, re-read instructions, and proceeded. Not sure what I did wrong first few times, but LW is working now.

The brickwall is gone and I have between 4 to 5 green connection bars.

I do use BT and LW at the same time. Would you still recommend I don't.

Also, quick question: now that I have forwarded my port, will that affect my Internet connections in any other way?

Aaaagh!

As I was typing this I got the error message that my computer doesn't have an internet connection or a firewall is blocking me. Somehow I lost the connection to the Internet and had to re-connect (file - connect).

I am doing a search for something that I test searched for when my LW was working two minutes ago. Nothing is being found and last time 189 files were found. I am now down to three green connection bars and no brick wall in front of the globe.

I just received the error message about no active internet connection or the firewall again.

Still no wall in front of the globe, and I'm thinking as I type this in a forum on the World Wide Web that I have an Internet connection.

Now what?

Sorry, to answer your questions:

The LW Manual Port Forward and port forward are the same.

Yes, I set up the static IP.

No, I am not port forwarding for BT.

Perth! I never made it to Perth when I was in Australia, didn't have the funds to get there. Did the east coast thing. I hear though, Perth, is perhaps the most cosmopolitan of all Australian cities.

So I just tried a quick test. I closed out of BT and tried searching in LW. It worked right away. And I got all connection bars green. I tried a few searches and got responses.

I turned on BT and tried searching in LW again. This time nothing came up, and it was taking a long time to do the search.

So, as you pointed out earlier, if I want to use LW I need to turn off BT it appears.

Knowing that, and if that is all the problem was, would it be better for me to not use port forwarding (go back to UPnP)? If I remember one of the notes right, it said port forwarding may slow things down slightly. Or is that just for LW?

AFAIK port forwarding shouldn't slow things down. But if you really don't want to use it, you can go back to using UPnP & see if that's ok & whether your firewall icon stays off.

I have a port forwarded for LW & it hasn't slowed things down for me.

Just remember that Shaw have been known to throttle p2p bandwidth, so that might account for slow speeds.
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I'm sorry, but what does AFAIK mean?

Australian Females are Attractive, Intellegent and Kind.

I'm sorry...it's the heat

It means "as far as I know".