I am in rural area with no DSL or cable.
My dialup connection has always been slow but steady (26.4 kbps) until about a month ago. My wife uses ebay and when it takes over 5 minutes to load the main page she gets upset.
My connection still says 26.4 but the speed has gotten painfully slow.
Here is what I have tried (without improving on my speed):
-Repaced old USR 56k modem with new USR 56k and reinstalled with current drivers.
-Discovered had a trojan, did fresh install of windows (reformated HD).
-Switched from AOL to SBC-Yahoo. (did another fresh install of windows)
-Had SBC check phone lines. They have told me some inconsistant information. When they do a line check (with phone and computer unplugged) I have been told there is a short. They have done some repairs, rechecked and found a short, repaired and found it OK. They ran a shielded wire from road to my house.
-checked hosts file, only one entry for localhost
-Not sure what this tells me, but when I "ping www.ebay.com", it says:
"Pinging hp-core.ebay.com (66.135.193.124)...
request timedout
4 packets lost
I can ping techspot.com with no lost packets and avg time 179ms.
-tracert www.ebay.com takes about 5 hops before it timesout.
I don't know if the phone lines.the isp or my computer are the problem. I plan to have SBC recheck lines, I am thinking of going to circuit city and buying a new computer just to see if I get a better connection with new machine.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Bill
My dialup connection has always been slow but steady (26.4 kbps) until about a month ago. My wife uses ebay and when it takes over 5 minutes to load the main page she gets upset.
My connection still says 26.4 but the speed has gotten painfully slow.
Here is what I have tried (without improving on my speed):
-Repaced old USR 56k modem with new USR 56k and reinstalled with current drivers.
-Discovered had a trojan, did fresh install of windows (reformated HD).
-Switched from AOL to SBC-Yahoo. (did another fresh install of windows)
-Had SBC check phone lines. They have told me some inconsistant information. When they do a line check (with phone and computer unplugged) I have been told there is a short. They have done some repairs, rechecked and found a short, repaired and found it OK. They ran a shielded wire from road to my house.
-checked hosts file, only one entry for localhost
-Not sure what this tells me, but when I "ping www.ebay.com", it says:
"Pinging hp-core.ebay.com (66.135.193.124)...
request timedout
4 packets lost
I can ping techspot.com with no lost packets and avg time 179ms.
-tracert www.ebay.com takes about 5 hops before it timesout.
I don't know if the phone lines.the isp or my computer are the problem. I plan to have SBC recheck lines, I am thinking of going to circuit city and buying a new computer just to see if I get a better connection with new machine.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Bill