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I T6OLD MYMOTHER ABOUT YOUR SIGHT AND SHE ASKED ME TO ASK FOR HELP FOR HER PC. SHE IS SET UP ON AOL THROUGH A MODEM AND IM SURE IT RUNS SLOWER THAN HIGH SPEED BUT IT IS WAY TOO SLOW. IS THERE A WAY WE CAN FIX THIS PROBLEM? IT TAKES FOREVER TO GET TO PAGES ONCE YOU CLICK ON THEM AND DOWNLOADS THE PAGE EXTREMELY SLOW.
Dial Up -> 56,000 b / s Cost $23.90
High Speed -> 20,000,000 b / s Cost $50.00 (on average)Short answer NO unless you get high speed. For $27.00 more you can get 360 times the speed. You do the math and ask your self why are you still using dial up.
Deer There is nothing wrong with my sight. If you mean Computing.net, that is a site. Turn off your caps lock, you are shouting.
Dial up is dependent on many factors. The 56Kb is the theoretical fastest speed a dial up modem can run. In the real world the fastest would be 53Kb. You would be lucky to get that fast. Typical may be half that.
If you are shuck using dial up there are things you can do to speed up page loading. Mostly it has to do with not loading all the eye candy.
Google for ways to decrease dial up load times.
That's true, you could also make sure cached pages is turned in in your browser. It downloads your favorite pages to your C: drive so the next time you visit it only has to download updated content. http://webaccelerator.google.com/su...
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/2037-inte...
my apologies for the caps. thank you so much for your help.. im sure ill have more questions for you. im on winter layoff and using these crashed pc's as a hobby. i hope it's not too bothersome
I have dialup, not AOL, for $ 9.95/mo.
I get 44 kbs using my desktop PC.
Laptop does 26 to 28 kbs, but seems alot faster than 44.http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...
Possible Issues and Resolutions for Slow Connection Speeds in Windows XP
I have DSL. 3MB/sec for just $20/month. And who the hell uses AOL anymore...lol
I thought they went out of business. Oh, that's right they should have gone out of business :))
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