adrianhall 0 Posted July 26, 2000 I've got a 56k dial up connection that I think may need tweaking so some advice would be appreciated. It's a USR 56k v90 ISA modem which works fine under W98, but in W2K it has an annoying but liveable fault whereby it seems limited in it's throughput. What I mean is, downloading files is fine, I get 5-6k/sec. But, if I'm browsing for example, and I want to move to another page, quite often I get the 'Page cannot be displayed' error. Hit refresh and the page required appears. Another example would be downloading a file with Go!Zilla. While it's doing that, if I try to browse then again, page cannot be displayed. A third example would be while downloading I want to check my e-mail (using OE5), error saying no server. It's as though I can only do one thing at once. I realise doing several things on a dial-up means everything gets done slower, but I'd like to be able to do that again. I'd prefer, on a large download, not to have to stop it while I check my e-mail, then resume the download again. Any ideas? Share this post Link to post
Cardinal 0 Posted July 29, 2000 http://www.3dspotlight.net has an excellent w2k modem tweak guide. Share this post Link to post
DeadCats 0 Posted July 29, 2000 The, "page cannot be displayed" error (and then hitting Refresh and it does) was a problem with IE 5.5 beta and it's been carried forward with the final version, or so it seems. I sometimes get that problem, too. I wonder if a clean install of 5.5, without the beta being on my machine, might cure that. Hmmm.... ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935 Share this post Link to post
