It is entirely possible that you have a problem with the modem.  Modems are
cheap now - I would recommend replacing the modem and seeing if you have
the same problem.

Tony Mayer


>I have been troubleshooting a problem with Internet Explorer slowdown and
>then no response.  I can browse for a minute and then crawls and I get the
>blank page (error.. page/server not found or something like that)  I have
>a Dial-up Earthlink account.  I originally had win 2k OS but elected to go
>with XP Pro after being affected with the Blaster worm.  I reformatted the
>drive and installed XP (Twice) but still have the same problem.  I decided
>to go back to original Win 2k and installed that along with Norton 2004
>and the Earthlink disk but still the same problem.  I go the cmd mode and
>ping yahoo.com and it fails.  I am still connected at this time.  Before
>going on the internet each time I loaded all the critical MS security
>patches and install Norton 2004.  I used a Earthlink disk from Office Max
>to load the app.  Could that be a problem?  Maybe Spyware?  Scanning for
>viruses (Sasser, Blaster ) comes up clean.  Since this is a new install
>each time, I haven't run Adware or Spyware.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.   Thank You.

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