My Win 98SE machine PII 350 Mhz machine on Road Runner Broadband was working OK
until a T-Storm rolled through last Friday and now everything is going slower
than a 2800 baud modem. If it is very low signal level caused by precipitation,
that is one thing; but I've been seeing a lot of posts in these M$ groups about
steps being taken to counteract this type of slowdown and disconnection. I think
this may be a pervasive outbreak of an outrageously slow connection speed virus
or spyware registry hack. This may be my last post before my modem quits for the
hour. I can't even finish loading up the Google homepage! I've run AdAware 1.05
& 1.06. I ran an AV scan on my System drive and found no virus with the Panda AV
updated. I've deleted the 180 Search Toolbar twice in 2 days. I've cleaned out
the TIF folders manually at great inconvenience. The Road Runner people are
coming tomorrow to check my connection. I live in an apartement; so if the
inside wiring has gone bad, how am I gonna convince the landlord to replace the
RG-59 cable in the wall with RG-6 cable especially when the inside wiring is
"inaccessible". I may have no TV or internet after tomorrow because of this
total abdication of authority around me. The Time Warner people can't tell my
landlord to do anything, and I can't tell my landlord to do anything, and the
landlord wouldn't do anything anyway. There are large and growing potholes in
the long driveway that are being neglected. I hear a cab driver called the
landlord to complain and got nowhere.

Well, here goes the Send Button. Hope it gets there on this Send.

BTW, my TV signals suck too. A lot of snowy cable TV shows above channel 50.
Channel 77 is as high I as I go here, until 12-31-2008.