Dial-Up Modem

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You don't say how slow your download is but Dial-up connections are noted for slow downloads and uploads. It is not uncommon for a modem to slow down to around 8-12Kb/s that is why most ISP's that offer dial-up connections also have some sort of accelerator...that holds back loading updates to the web page and all that stuff to let your download have as much bandwidth as possible to speed up the download...but still the fastest it can ever download is 56Kb/s which isn't very fast as the typical computer today operates at 1.0Gb/s...A download manager can help as it downloads and if it gets cut off it will pick up where it left off when it quit. But hey that is the draw of BroadBand and Cable connections faster speed....count on any file you are trying to download to take a long time. Unless you are super slow around 40-80 bits/s then I would look for a bad connection in the line somewhere....bad switch along the way....long distance dialing connection.

http://www.modemsite.com/56k/trouble.asp

is the main page for the tiny url that was posted, with solutions and info for most problems.