This may not be the right place to post this but not knowing the problem, I’m not sure where to post. It’s a ‘net surfing problem so I’ll start here.
I use dialup service and am happy with my ISP but for one problem and I don’t know if it is related to the ISP’s service, the phone lines, my computer, or what. Our office IT (sort of) guy didn’t seem to have any suggestions either. I have a Pentium 233 with 160MB RAM. The hard drive was reformatted and reloaded from scratch recently for other reasons and there was no change in this problem.
Often when surfing the ‘net, I will attempt to go to another site, page, link, etc. and nothing happens. The “two computers” icon in the system tray that should be blinking green lights to show data transmission just sits there dark – nothing transmits or receives – for ten or fifteen seconds sometimes longer. Then all of a sudden it starts flashing again and the new page appears.
Yeah, I know the easy solution is to switch to high speed, but my low cost dialup package covers all the time I need (they don’t charge when sometimes I go a bit over my limit) and it fits my economical budget (ok, cheap!)
Other times, I get to the same site right away.
