Public network exchange points are a good thing, but they often suffer from traffic congestion. The bottlenecks usually occur when an ISP has more data to get out of the exchange point than its connection can handle. Starting October 1, 2000 the 503 area code will be switching to 10-digit dialing. This will soon be true also in the 360 area code.

The PEER agent is designed to hold onto up to 40 megs of RAM that is not being used. When it is needed for another task, it is given back. CPU utilization has been shown to be less than having Microsoft Outlook open.

We use multiple Tier-1upstream Internet Service Providers and reserve the right to change them from time to time to ensure we are able to offer high value business grade internet redundancy with optimal traffic routing and performance.

It's Symantec Anti-Virus 10.x that causes this. The 7.x version was fast; the 8.x version was slower, but usable. With the 10.x version, it may take minutes between the time you login and the time you can actually get work done. Symantec withdrew support for 8.x in Feb 2007, so, sadly, we are stuck with 10.x. Unfortunately, the scan is generated for *each user*, so *each user* on each machine must do this.

You made the investment in your PC so that you could enjoy the benefits of a fast, easy machine that would make your life easier and more enjoyable. Unfortunately, after continued use, all PC’s suffer the effects of a corrupt and ineffective Windows Registry, causing error messages to appear, slow loading, and system crashes. Eventually, that machine that was supposed to make your life easier is now the source of your greatest frustration.

Depending on packet roundtrip time and packet loss to our servers, your downloads may be slow. This may also depend on the time of day, so trying again at a different time may solve your problem. Also, using FILEOUT.NET Premium account will dramatically improve your downloading speed, usually maxing out your Internet connection's bandwidth.

There are many factors that can cause the Internet to slow down. Before a page shows on your monitor, the route the data follows can be a long route. Internet connections could route pieces of the page over slower connections once the server sends the page. Interference to the connection could be on another line in your home, at the phone company, or at the cable company. If your computer is multi-tasking, such as running a print job, the loading of the page on your machine may take longer.

SpinRite is a single 170 Kbyte downloadable file, so it can be easily and quickly obtained through even the slowest Internet connections.

This is a good question (I've certainly asked this question many times). However, the answer is a little complex. When you try to visit a web site and things seem slow, we usually group the causes into three categories: Your Computer -- You may have a lot of programs running, you may have an older machine, or it may simply be an excessively large or complex web page you are trying to view.

This question ties in with the above question in as much as, a properly designed web site is optimized to download as fast as possible. Optimize in this instance means that all graphics, pictures and backgrounds are compressed to make the files as small as possible without loosing quality. Another reason that pages may download slowly is that there is too much on one page, large pictures, or the links on that page go to sites that are having server problems.

It is possible that you experience slow downloads while getting software from us. To avoid this, you should make sure that you choose the right site when you download (usually the one that is geographically closer will yield better results). Alternatively, you can get our software from many public software archives, such as ZDNet Software Library or Download.com.

It is not a problem to download the program on a slow dial up connection. The audio component will take the longest as it is a rather large file. If your connection drops during download you can easily resume when connected again. Download will take approximately 48 minutes on a very slow connection.

The Library is currently not able to offer TELNET access to a text-only version of the LC Online Catalog. An alternative interface is available using the Library's Z39.50 Gateway. This interface works well with text-based browsers, such as Lynx. To learn more about the Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval, visit the Z39.50 Maintenance Agency Page. The Library is aware of the need for text-based access to the Online Catalog to satisfy the needs of its offsite users.

Well that's because this site is all about pictures, and most pages are made up of lots and lots of them. I could have had thumbnails and pop-up boxes but then you wouldn't be able to see so much without clicking on everything to bring up separate boxes. As fast internet connection has become more commonplace I decided to assume users will have this.

There are a number of reasons why RedSquirrel could run slowly. Firstly it is a very processor intesive program that requires quite a powerful PC to emulate even an old Archimedes machine. You should curently expect to get about 1 mip for every 100Mhz of processor speed you have on an intel PII/PIII processor. Software audio cards such as AC97 codecs will take a significant proportion of your processor time and slow down RedSquirrel.

Unlike other PC Builders which are very limited in terms of which components you can use to build your PC, our PC Builder gives you access to 2,500 components so you really can build the ultimate PC. In order to provide you with this level of flexibility unforuntately it takes time to display this information. However, once the screen has loaded you have immediate access to all these components and there are no further delays.

Your PC must have a 10BaseT or 100BaseT Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC). We do not load any software onto your computer. All your PC needs is TCP/IP software and a web browser. Windows 95 or newer and MAC OS 8.5 or greater include TCP/IP and a browser.

Although the BitTorrent protocol supports it, no existing implementations allow for streaming of downloaded files. We use a similar technology called Swarmcast, which you can think of as BitTorrent for streams.