On Jul 12, 2004, at 22:29, Frank Hammitt wrote: > My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to > a dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test > indicated a reasonable 1.8 to 2.3 MBPS (I can?t see how that it is > accurate) but in reality, all web pages are loading slowly. I feel > something is afoot with the the broadband supplier. I had a better > connection in a north central Mexico Hampton Inn last week.
I have to admit that this is the first really bad, consistent slowdown I've had. Other slowdowns (like mlb.com crapping out at the interesting part of ballgames around 10pm) were due to the servers being overloaded, not to insightbb.com. Still, if others are having the problem, I'll not pursue it farther. > > An inquiry call to Insight Broadband yielded a 26 minute wait that > terminated in me hanging up before they responded. At least I didn?t > have to listen to the inane babbling of Bob Sokoler (sp) and Terry > Minor encouraging me to sign up for more services. Good thing you have a hands-free setup for your phone, no? ;<) Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
