I only have a 14.4 modem for my dial up connection. It obviously runs
> slow nowadays with all the junk they throw on the Internet. (for
> straight text, it runs great).
> I needed access to some information and went to a neighbor who has a
> 56k dial up. I went to the desired site and to my surprise, the site
> loaded much slower than it does on my home machine. That didn't make > any sense to me.
Clearly, the bottleneck is not on the local loop. There are lots and lots of links and routers between the site and your machine. Probably more between the site and your neighbor's machine.
--scott "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."