On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:54 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > For the past two weeks I have been internally blaming earthlink for my > pathetic dial-up speeds (av. 4.2Kbps) but have discovered that Younger > Daughter's WinXP connects at 4.8Kbps, Wife's Win98 connects at 4.8Kbps, > and my old Win95 does the same. I am supposed to have a 56K (53.3Kbps) > connection and did have that until about two weeks ago. I track Sid and > update regularly. Since 90% of my online time is text-based this didn't > become a problem or even very apparent until the past couple of weeks. > I have no idea as to how to even start troubleshooting this. Can any of > you wiser heads help? > Thanks for any ideas you may have concerning my problem. A 600 bytes/sec diffie doesn't seem that much to squawk about. Either Earthlink or your phone company are to blame. Sign up for AOL(*), and see if d/l speeds suck, too. If not, it's AOL. (*) You must have an AOL disk floating around somewhere, right? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family." Kin Hubbard
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