O. T. Dial up service

I purchased their high speed dial up, then they asked if i could choose no charge dial up phone line town location. I sure could except by not speeking English they hooked me to a town 80 miles away. They got the first letter of the town ok, after that wow--no idea of the term english.

I did screw up by not checking my debit card statment for eight months. I do not use it ever. They could only refund the last month, and I had absolutly no way of ever using their service. So far I just complain, and yea, complain more.

Dialup internet speed can be affected:

Our company will not hookup a customer's computer to a cable modem if it's running Windows 95. Too old. RAM memory is probably the most important item to affects processing. Too little ram forces the processor to use the hard drive as virtual memory. Time is wasted accessing the HD to display the web page. For Windows XP minimun is 256 meg of RAM. Thats just to run XP. Startup IE and you need about 350 meg. Add the other software that adds little processes at startup and it's up 480 meg. XP needs 512 meg to run effectively. The new Vista may need about 1 gigabyte. Previous versions of MS operating software can be run on 256 meg. Another thing on the computer to look at is the anti-virus software. The new anti-virus software checks every keystroke typed and every data bit on the website that is downloaded. I use AVG because it's simple and free. I think the site is at WWW.avg.com.

If you are using the only phone line in the house, then remove them one at time to see if the download time improves. Same thing if you have a second line for internet dialup service.

The next thing to do call the telephone company and have the line checked or ask for a dailup internet phone line. Sometimes the telephone company uses line concentrators which combines 2 phone lines unto a 1 cable pair. Cuts the connection speed in half. Most phone lines will run at the 50k connection speed or better depending on how far you are from the telephone company's office.

So I"m on dialup.

I flush my browser cache regularly, use opera, don"t have even flash installed, and only turn on images when I"m on a page I need it (like for radar). It works for me, and I don"t do a lot of napping in front of a computer.

Got 2 computers, the DW and mine. On mine I have unchecked or disabled Active X. Loads faster. I know, can"t get security patches without active X. I also unchecked JAVA Scripts. Works great and faster yet. When I hit a site that requires Scripts, and thats not often, the computer tells me and then I turn it on. I also unchecked the graphics. Loads even faster yet. On threads where a picture is provided and I want to see it, I right click the mouse, click on show picture and the picture loads.

I secure my computer with Spybot, Ad Aware, AVG and Zone Alarm. Having no problems at all.

Your results may vary.

Bob
Central Arizona

I have WildBlue - about $200 up front for equipment and $50/month. When I add up what I was paying for dial-up and a second phone line, that monthly is not too bad.

Hope this helps.

Gerald J.

Mine sometimes isn't too bad. All the pop ups and ads and extra bull crap people add to ebay ads really slow it down. This site seems to work about the best. Must be the outdated system works better with dial up.