Am 14.10.2005 20:11 schrieb snipped-for-privacy@bbs.cpcn.com:
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.
Maybe your neighbor has some noise on his loop. Some phones, if connected to the same line, can severely slow down data.
Daniel AJ
My e-mail-address is sokolov [at] gmx dot net