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Finally found the settings you're describing.
Thanks again (you deserve it), Alex, for this problem wasn't about your software.
But because Avast is very popular, some UE users may find this thread usefull. I wish I'll never have to bother you again. Congrats for your patience.

Alex, Firewall ? My Avast is just an antivirus. May be that's why I could fin no inbounds nor outbounds separate ports to set. Is there really an Avast Firewall ?... But I could redirect the nntp watched ports to something else than 119. If you put 80 instead, then the internet browsing will get stu...

Thanks for your extensive testing. I don't plan to take the laptop out soon, then I don't know when I will get a chance to try with another ISP. My laptop is a HP, but i din't install their TPM (Trust Platform mmmthing... hardware component... ), and it's deactivated from the bios settings. The fire...

That's ok : your last answer solved the problem (had to uncheck 'support compress headers'). I think that Newshosting.com doesn't compress headers (with my account type, it's an unlimited one, but not encrypted). Everything's fine now.

Thanks for your efficiency.

Just checked : no, it doesn't , and it never blocked any previous version (windows xp integrated firewall).
Thx anyway.

Hi Alex, Just to say that UE 2.5 didn't allow me anymore to Get New Headers (I've got an account at Newshosting.com): the task manager did say 'connecting' for a long moment, then indicating the new headers range, but could never start to bring any in, despite several attempts. Having contacted my N...