I can take a nap while a page loads.....

Hi Stephanie, nice to talk to you again. Well since we last talked, I have also moved further out into the country but unlike you, I have broadband. Now you might think "Lucky for her" but my broadband is slower than dial up. When I moved into the house (a brand new house), none of the phone sockets worked and then we discovered a phone socket that did work. It was on the wall outside our house. I was able to go outside my front door and plug my phone in and make my calls. However, I wasn't going to set up my pc and my desk out in all the rain. To cut a long story short, we eventually got the phone sockets working inside the house but when we plugged in the modem none of the other phone sockets worked. If we plugged in a phone the modem wouldn't work. The phone company says I need to phone technical support as it is not the phone line but I know it is the darn phone line. They screwed them up with all their mucking about. After my six month contract is up, I am going to cancel the broadband and then get them to fix my phone line and when it is fixed I am going to get my broadband from another service provider. Sorry I wasn't much help to you but we can both cry together.

Hahah i know how it feel to have a really slow internet connection. Before i was using a dial up and geez, before you can watch something in youtube it will take you an hour to download! I always feel like throwing the computer! haha

I would hate to go back. I do not have any ideas for you. I am glad to see that you have come back and hope things get better so that you can be around alot.

I can really sympathize with you Steph. I have broadband now, but I used to have dial-up and then it drove me bonkers. Not only with its slowness, but mine used to drop out, and I had to redial continuously. However, to go to dial-up AFTER having ADSL, well I don't think I could adapt to that. I hope you're a very patient lady.

[i]Hi Steph, Ohh..I understand your situation, I have that type of connection back in our Country and it will pissed me off really! We have DSL now and I have no problem about it! ANyway, I hope you will get tips from other members here, my hubby knows a lot about this stuff...not me![/i]

hello i really understand what you feel, i already Break down 2 of my screens because of that lol Got used to ADSL with a great Bandwitch and when i came to my Aun't farm, the connexion was so slow ... all what i did is taking a new Cable, called my Provider and they pluged it From the Main Dial-up's station directly to my Modem and the connexion become good. Vista is too slow, try to install XP SP2, it's more good.

i had a dial-up,so i can understand your situation.i became so frustated that i gave up surfing altogether till i acquired a broadband connection.

Steph if possible go back to windows xp instead of vista. Try to delete internet browsing history and cache files from time to time. Doing a defragmentation every now and than also helps. That will help the computer speed.

Maybe you can tweak your system, by turn off any services that connected to internet, turn off automatic updates, use internet accelerator to boost your internet speed, or use some proxy software that allow you using their proxy server

Maybe you can tweak your system, by turn off any services that connected to internet, turn off automatic updates, use internet accelerator to boost your internet speed, or use some proxy software that allow you using their proxy server