If what you are seeing is IE taking up a lot of CPU time, then that isn't "the internet being slow", it's IE being slow. You can check your base ADSL speeds on www.speedtest.net
Assuming those are in line with what you're paying for, then the problem is not with your ADSL. Web 2.0 or script-heavy sites like FaceBook certainly would use more CPU running scripts, but stuff like SilverLight, Flash etc are largely client-side so once loaded and cached shouldn't be a big hit on your connection again. What's more likely to be slowing general internet down is wholesale freetarding, i.e. the world + dog leeching games and films off torrent sites. For this very reason many ISPs now use traffic shaping to minimise the hit from this. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
