battle.net connection

Every time I try to play starcraft online I can't establish a connection with the battle.net server. Also I have bellsouth fastaccess dsl internet service and I can't get it to install as a broadband or high speed internet connection. I think this is my main problem. I have a friend that plays starcraft online and he has the same dsl service. He got it to install properly on windows Me, I have windows xp. Any help that can be given will be greatly appreciated.

 

Firewall?

I'm not really good at these things but do you think you could have some kind of firewall on? I do know that Battle.net hates some firewalls, because my friends with firewalls have similar issues. If this is wrong someone please correct me.

 

I load bots n' stuff on B-NET.
You should manually get the new patch and add it to the "Starcraft" folder in "My porgram files".
Get the patch from: http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msc0411p
Try it and post results.