The problem is inside my box. In several previous messages, I have said
that I checked this by dialing in to my ISP from different client sites.
BTW I'm only two hops from the backbone so there aren't a lot of pipes
involved.
Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Will Stephenson <[log in to unmask]>
> Hello!
>
> I think I use this excuse way too much, but it seems valid. In the past
> couple weeks, the Internet itself has been very slow. For example, on
> Tuesday afternoon (8-10), everything south of Boston went dead. And just
> generally, everything is just plain slow. Closer to home, your ISP's pipes
> may be filling up. That gives you the results you see no matter how "fast"
> you're connected.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Will Stephenson ><>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Slow modem/DUN response
>
>
> Been there, done that.
> No change....
>
> Somewhere in the last 2-3 weeks I noticed that MSIE 5 was having
> difficulties connecting to a LOT of web sites. The failures were all
showed
> the same error message -- Unable to connect....server timed out (or
> something like that). That's when I started fooling with the TRACEROUTE
and
> notice that my response times had suddenly jumped up to the 550-600 msec
> range for traceroutes. Through various tests, I have confirmed that the
> problem IS inside my machine. But I can't figure out what is causing such
a
> big delay.
>
> As I said, I installed FrontPage 2000 and Corel Office 2000, during that
> same time frame, but I did not notice any major performance changes
> immediately after either installation.
>
>
> Jim Meagher
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