Hi, thanks for the replies
I use Zonealrm as firewall and no router, and have given emule access to all prts and protocols.
Problem is with port 4662 it does not give me a low rating and a message that it cannot get to that port - everything used to be fine onthis port and I havent changed a thing whicbh is mysterirous. So I read its help files and changed it to another port, 4661 or any other, and all is fine again, only this reason I wondered if NTL had begun to block port emule's known default port of 4662 because I was forced to change it