Hi there Bob,

Only suggestion I have is that you stop e-mail scanning with Norton. I used
to have same problem and dropped the automatic email scanning, all of a
sudden bingo, all was back to normal.
Give it a try, worst is you'll see that doesn't solve the problem.

TTFN - Vic
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A. Murray" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 6:29 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Slow Downloads


> Hello all, hope you have some ideas why my downloads from mail and other
> servers have suddenly dropped to a few bytes/sec from a typical 2000
> bytes per sec.  This happens about 80 % of the time.  It sometimes
> starts out ok and then slows dramatically or stops.  Have tried
> unsuccessfully all the utilities that seemed even remotely appropriate
> in Norton 2000 System Works.  Can't define the problem so have not been
> able to solve it.  Another computer on the same phone line and isp
> (concentric) works fine.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Dell P133 LM ST notebook
> 40 Meg RAM resources available typically 70%
> Win 95, IE 5.0
> Outlook Express
>  Megahertz 3CCM 156 56k Global Modem
>
>  thanks bob

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