What would cause a new laptop to suddenly go from a dial up ISP baud rate of avg. 44kbps to avg. 28.8kbps?
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I'd make sure it's not a connections issue with your ISP - they may only have a limited number of higher-speed connections available in their modem pool.  Or check for line static.  Or possibly spyware - a good program to scan for and prevent is adaware from lavasoft.
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Could be a number of things.  If you are on a cable system, your neighbors could be using a lot of bandwidth; maybe some kid has discovered BitTorrent or something.  Your ISP could be oversubscribed; meaning it's a poor quality ISP and they've bought far less bandwidth than they've sold to their customers, so there is a huge traffic jam at the ISP.  Or, the ISP's upstream ISP could be congested.  \n\nIt's also possible that your computer has some cruft in it that keeps it from running well.  Does the computer run well otherwise?  How old is it?  What operating system are you running?  How many programs do you have running?  Try rebooting it and running only the Internet browser and see if that improves anything.  Make sure you have enough memory; at least 256 MB, preferably 512 MB.\n\nTry running a speed test: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ .  See how it compares to what you expect to get from your connection.\n\nIt almost doesn't need to be mentioned but try more than one or two websites before you conclude your connection is bad. \n\nIf you can do it, try accessing your ISP's web page and poke around and see if that is just as slow or faster than other sites.  That might tell you whether the problem is with your local connection or with the ISP's connection to the Internet.\n\nFinally, if you are having connection problems, don't hesitate to call your ISP.  They may have performance data (if it's DSL or cable) that indicates the health of your line.  There are many things that can go wrong with a DSL or cable line to slow it down.  Only your ISP can diagnose these things.  Something similar applies to dialup lines except that they will not fix the line unless there is audible noise on the line.  Place a call and check for that.
872510
your internet server is most likely too slow
970276
Your computer is out of date, and if you are using dial up it will do that. Upgrade your computer and get DSL or CABLE high speed internet.  Or you can reload windows on your old system and start fresh, im sure yoru current PC has alot of junk on it.
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The ping requests are timing out. The computer is not getting a response back from the host computer fast enough. This can be caused by a series of possibilies. The first and the easiest to check is the cable going from one computer to the other. Simply by switching the cable one can check this. Two, the host computer isnt fast enough. The network card isn't working properly or a firewall setting or other software is conflicting. Three and still the same. Could be the network card, firewall or software pm the other computer. If this is a dial-up connection this is to be expected as the line cannot handle very much traffic and even one or two backround programs on both computer can "eat" all the bandwidth.If this is a high speed connection then simply installing a router.
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The laptop is probably not as fast a setup as the desktop. Memory, hard drive, etc., are probably limiting the internet speed.
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If you are, you've been duped.  DSL should be much faster than dial up...and if it isn't...find a new service provider.
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When I first got my DSL turned on, I was having problems with speed. I knew my system was capable of running it and all the lights were on on my modem. I called my ISP's tech support and they told me it was because I was using a cordless phone. I had never heard of this causing a problem before, but when I plugged in a different phone it worked a lot better. Also it could be an issue with your pc such as RAM and processor speed. No matter how fast your internet is, it can only go as fast as your pc is capable of. One more thing to try is running a anti spyware program, disk cleanup, disk defrag, registry cleaner, that sort of thing. It's unbelievable how much difference it makes just clearing out the clutter on your computer. Hope this helps.
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check your internet download and upload speeds here\n\nDownload Speed\nhttp://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp\n(Ex.  Mine is 5081Kb/sec)\n\nUpload Speed\nhttp://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/BandwidthUp.asp\n(Ex. Mine is 1295Kb/sec)\n\npost the results.  Contact your ISP and ask them if they are having problems and see if they can tell you what your DL and UL speeds SHOULD be.\n\nAlso, in response to funQT's post below, deleting your cookies is fine - but your temporary internet files, while they can and should be deleted every so often, actually speeds up your system.  Certain content on websites is downloaded directly to your PC for faster access when you revisit the page.  Instead of loading everything again from the internet, it loads directly from your hard drive - thus increasing the speed in which the page loads.  For pages that are uploaded frequently, you will want to delete this to get the latest version of the page, not the old version that was cached.\n\nCheck for spyware, as well.\n\nFirst of all, in response to notrix, not everybody has the "two computer" icons when connected to the internet through broadband.  I know I don't.  \n\nIf you click the links I posted above the websites will test your download and upload speeds.  You may want to try it a few times and get an average.  24Mb/sec is probably the internal transfer rate of your network card, not your actual external net speed.  If you are using newer DSL service (they've recently upgraded their speeds), you can expect to get anywhere from 256Kb/sec to 3Mb/sec download and 128Kb/sec to 1Mb/sec upload on average (just a ballpark, I didn't actually research the speeds) - this is also dependant on what type of service you have with the provider.  Usually they offer multiple options where you can pay more to get faster connections.  However, with DSL - the farther you are from the host, the slower your connection.  Whereas with cable, the distance is not a factor, but the number of people online that are in your specific node will affect speeds.
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best idea would be to call the internet service provider to see if they have any problems, and to test the modem, line etc.. \nif thats not a problem dont use the router connect directly and see if the problem still happens if still ongoing, scan for spyware, virus, run all windows updates.
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That sounds like a DSL speed which should not be dependent on other users in your area unlike cable. The internet is busier on nights and weekends so just slower in general depending on which sites you visit.
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Although I do not clearly see what you could have clicked to do that, for Windows XP the solution to restore your TCP/IP settings is simple.  Just go to Start->Run and type "netsh int ip reset log.txt" and restart your computer.\n\nIf that does not resolve you speed issue, run a spyware scan like the one at http://housecall.trendmicro.com
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Check and see if you have an 'Internet Accelerator'.  Programs that promise to speed up your connection will do so, at the cost to your graphics.
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I had the same problem with DSL.  Dial-up was acting strange too.  The phone company was pointing fingers at the ISP.  The ISP was pointing fingers at the phone company.  If cable Internet is available and you can afford it, do it!  It will solve your problem and has superior performance.\n\nChances are if you changed it ISPs, they are using the same equipment in the central office as was used with the original ISP; so changing ISPs probably could not have solved your problem.  If you go to DSL it might even get worse.\n\nIf the telephone company is unable to help you, and you probably won't be able to fix your dial up.  Cable Internet is your best bet.
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Very simple: your dial-up connection has a maximum speed of 56 KB/s (kilobits/second) which is the equivalent of 7 KB/s (kilobytes per second). In your case 40 kbps= 5 kBps.\nnote: 1KB/s=8Kb/s (1 kilobyte/s = 8 kilobit/s )
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could be your card driver, your cable, the other end of your cable, the network and tcp/ip settings, you got some testing and tweaking to do
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Dial up has nothing to do with IE7. Depends where you downloaded the browser; if its from a secure location (MSFT for example) you should contact your ISP to give you the settings again (it might have been wrongly installed); if u got it from I don't know what obscure site then... u have a virus!