speed up

Options:

Dual modems: requires 2 phone lines, and Dial Up Networking 1.4

Connection optimizers: These programs make sure that your DUN and other system settings are optimized for your connection.

Pre-fetchers: These programs attempt to guess what links you are going to click on next, and pre-load the next page while you are looking at the current page. While they do not actually speed things up, they make page transitions seem faster.

There are free versions of both types of software posted at www.nonags.com

New phone lines / phones: If your current connection speed is less than 41K, replacing your phone line and / or equipment can speed things up.
To check things out, connect the modem directly where the phone line comes into the house, with the rest of the house disconnected.
If the speed improves, you need to determine what lines and/or phone equipment to change.

Replacing a controller-less (Win) modem with a true hardware modem can speed things up for ICS by freeing up the processor and PCI buss on the host computer.

Chas

Before going broadband I used Gozilla to check on file transfer speeds and work out fastest connection available - check out www.gozilla. com
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There are other similar apps available at
download.com and tucows.com