Sensible
17th Mar 2000, 01:52
Got myself a new 550 MHz pentium, does everything except work like my old 2xx Mhz machine used to.
For some reason, my new home machine runs so slowly, if I click on the little computer at the bottom right of the screen, I learn that all is working well at 35 - 50,333 bps but the reality is that sometimes, the little blue bar takes for ever and a day to load a single page. I have an internal modem, I have tried my old Motorola Modem Surfer 56k external modem as an alternative but with no improvement. Sometimes just to be infuriating the thing works like lightning with either modem, other times, and mostly, it works at the speed of a slug, click on the little computer and it still says 35 to 50,333bps - it must be a lie. Maybe my imagination, but it seems that the more I "surf" the slower the beast becomes. Rebooting often restores the speed but only for a short while, other times it remains in slug mode. My connection is virgin.net rather than the new Virginnet.something. if I use the external modem and the old computer, all works well.
Any geniuses or is it genii ? who can help please ? I'm new here in desparation and have only a small understanding of computers.
I'd be grateful for an opinion on my ailment.
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Been fidling some more, now changed the phone in to the 0645 505 400 number and it says its working at 50666bps but that's a lie because it takes a full 5 minutes to load a webb picture as opposed to about 30 seconds on my old machine.
[This message has been edited by Sensible (edited 16 March 2000).]
For some reason, my new home machine runs so slowly, if I click on the little computer at the bottom right of the screen, I learn that all is working well at 35 - 50,333 bps but the reality is that sometimes, the little blue bar takes for ever and a day to load a single page. I have an internal modem, I have tried my old Motorola Modem Surfer 56k external modem as an alternative but with no improvement. Sometimes just to be infuriating the thing works like lightning with either modem, other times, and mostly, it works at the speed of a slug, click on the little computer and it still says 35 to 50,333bps - it must be a lie. Maybe my imagination, but it seems that the more I "surf" the slower the beast becomes. Rebooting often restores the speed but only for a short while, other times it remains in slug mode. My connection is virgin.net rather than the new Virginnet.something. if I use the external modem and the old computer, all works well.
Any geniuses or is it genii ? who can help please ? I'm new here in desparation and have only a small understanding of computers.
I'd be grateful for an opinion on my ailment.
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Been fidling some more, now changed the phone in to the 0645 505 400 number and it says its working at 50666bps but that's a lie because it takes a full 5 minutes to load a webb picture as opposed to about 30 seconds on my old machine.
[This message has been edited by Sensible (edited 16 March 2000).]