Hi Louie,
When you are on-line with many windows machines,
there is a small modem connection status icon
active in the lower right corner. You can click on the
icon and bring it up to the normal screen size. It
will tell you your connection speed. If its less than
52 bps (~56k modem), you might try unplugging
extra phones and answering machines, then re log
onto your on line system to see if your connection
speed comes back up.
I've found cheap telco devices often slow Internet
connections down quite a bit. I found a bugging
device two years ago which caused this same
problem.
cheers
skipp
ps: you might also want to down load the lean
and mean Mozilla firebird web browser from
www.mozilla.org (free). M-Firebird emulates
Internet Exploder and Netscape very well and
has less than 1/2 the overhead on your machine.
Mozilla is also a full feature browser if you
need integrated Email. Else Mozilla Thunderbird
is the free matching Email program for Firebird.
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gudguyham@aol.com
To: amps@contesting.com
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:34:59 EST
mps@contesting.com
Merry Christmas ampers!! I know this is off topic, but, maybe someone
can
help. Its basically a computer problem. Recently I have been having
this
problem ONLY with e-bay webpage. When I go to the e-bay website and the
page
downloads I cannot scroll quickly through the page. If I click on the
right hand
side up/down arrows the page refreshes very slow and is really annoying!!
Any
other website page I can scroll top to bottom quickly no problem. Also,
if I
click on the search box and type in a search work like "amplifier" the
letters
in the box has a delay before they appear. E-bay is the only site I have
this problem with and it started just a few weeks ago and before that it
was
fine. My other computer at work does NOT do this and its a lower grade
computer
than this one. I am using dial up service in both cases. It seems to be
a
computer related problem I think. I have tried changing settings and
such to no
avail. Any thoughts?? Thanks 73 Louie W1QJ
________________________________________________________________
The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
_______________________________________________
Amps mailing list
Amps@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps
|