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DSL Slows Down
Name: KiddBCB Date: July 31, 2002 at 19:54:49 Pacific
Comment:
I have DSL thru AOL. When I first sign on, the connection speed is fine but after a half and hour to an hour, my connections gets very slow, sometimes as slow as dial up. Any ideas what can be causing this??
Name: KiddBCB Date: July 31, 2002 at 20:26:02 Pacific
Reply:
thats what i was thinking, but i wasn't sure if it was software or hardware causing it....Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: n3985 Date: July 31, 2002 at 21:33:42 Pacific
Reply:
No, it's just your bandwith is being taken up by other programs. If you have "auto update" features enabled in programs, that's what they do, silently downloadng update files, and if you have spyware, uploading you info.
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