Problems with internet connection via Aliant

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Hi,

I've just moved from Montreal to Wolfville, Nova Scotia. In the process 
I switched ISPs, from Bell Sympatico to Aliant. They both use the same 
hardware, but I'm having problems with my net access with Etch. The 
modem is a Speedstream 6520, which I've connected to my desktop NIC. 
It's running fine for WindowsXP on the same machine, but when I'm 
running etch I get very slow connection, and I get 'problem loading 
page' errors most of the time. Email is ok, usually, but it too 
occassionally fails to connect to the servers for my POP3 account. I've 
tried shutting down Firestarte, but that doesn't make any difference.

As I said, this same set up was working no problems with Bell Sympatico 
just a week ago. Any ideas? I'd rather not spend too much time inside XP...

Thanks!

Tyler

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Tyler Smith