Hi, My dialup connection seems slow lately. In an attempt to discover why I downloaded TCP Optimizer and ran the the latency tests. I found that I'm getting a roughly even dispersal (30-50%) of "Request Timed Out" returns, and I'm wondering if this is normal Thanks, John

i wish internet companies would just sell a scratch card at rite aid etc so i could get the cheap juno ,people pc etc dsl because i dont have a credit card or atm use opera browser use mozilla are you using internet explorer?

http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+fastest+browser&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official opera.com

you probably just have spyware on your system (like internet optimizer as I've seen that show up as a bot). DL and install adaware and spybot search & destroy, update them and run them. This will probably help but keep in mind, it is dialup and will never be 'fast'.

Thanks Steppenwolf/Mike, Yes, I'm using internet explorer. I'll try those two applications. Are the "Request Timed out" messages normal? Thanks, John

I wonder if you might have somehow disabled some handshaking or protocol with your firewall. Sure thing, there are various options for browsers but IE can normally cope fine, used by many with no problem (including myself). DerekW

Hi Mike/Derek, I installed and ran Spybot. I also accepted TCPOptimizer's recommended settings, which increased the number of connections to 10 and 10 (from 8 and 4), and increased the TCP receive window from 2144 to 16,616, which seems a tad high. These changes seem to have improved my connection speed substantially, but I still get the "request timed out" message. I have no firewall, no proxy, no virus program. Does anyone know if this "request timed out message" is normal. When I run the TCPOptimizer Latency function, I get one of these about every 3 pings. Would someone with dialup please try this. Thanks, John