If you try www.pcpitstop.com they have a program to check your computer 
operation including your Internet connection and make recommendations to 
tweak/optimize your system. This procedure is free though they do have 
recommended programs for sale.

Your Win 98 could be tweaked for dial up while your Win 2000 is not.

I hope this helps.

Tom Mayer

Sue Rose wrote:
> Two identical gateway g6-400 towers--one running win 98se the other running win 2000,
> Aptiva IBM running win 98 first edition, custom built tower running win 2000
> All computers are around 1996-1997
> The gateway running win 98se tower nornmally connects via the modem to this my account (edu) at 44, 000 or 45,333
>  the aptiva was connecting at 48000
> the gateway tower running win 2000 was at 28.8kbs
> and the custom built tower never was able to connect
>
> Why this disparity--same phone line that i plugged into each tower
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