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Old January 12th 08, 03:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
RockyTSquirrel
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Default Internet connection problem

Agree, telephone dialup is the worst type of connection to the internet..
I fought with the local phone company for over 10 years about the dialup i
had..
First they installed "boosters" on my service, which makes the voice
better but the data stream
worse.. went from 33,600 down to 26,400..
Then the phone company had falures on their remote switches which further
reduced the packets
down to 14,400.
each time the phone company "tryed" to do anything it just got worse..
When I finnally dropped AT&T (BellSouth) my dialup was 4,600..

And just like you I had completely redone my computer 3 or 4 times with no
good results..
To this day the AT&T people have denied they have any fault in the matter..

(however I have talked to over 20 neighbors and all using dialup had the
same problems..)
((further test of the telephone network in this region showed not one of
the phone switches or
line services were compliant with FCC regulations))

RTS



"Alan" wrote in message
...
Have you tried System Restore to some time before the hardware crash,
Remove ZA (which version do you have?), put on AVG (I find AVG 7.5
"works")? No doubt you would have put on any backup if you had one?


No I didn't - I decided the missing folders for AVG and ZA were first
priority, then when I ran into reinstall problems I thought there
might be missing system files too so I reinstalled Windows - which of
course wiped out all the earlier Restore points. Catch 22.

I have since realized my 'normal' connection is also very slow (only 3
or 4K) and the cause of the additional slowing isn't Internet
connection but something else - no idea what yet. Wondering if a
registry patch of all the settings that might be affecting it would be
worth trying, but I don't know where to get it from. Any ideas please?