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Originally Posted by videobruce
Please read before asking. It was the 6th line in the OP.
After looking over these two sites and watching the data stream, after the initial download of the pop-up box for the streaming stocks quotes, there is little data comming down the pike. A 14.4 modem could easily handle this traffic. Same goes for Yahoo Games. After both sites load, there isn't much going on.
When I mentioned "streaming" everyone probabaly thinks of video streaming. This isn't the case here.
The dialup adapter is called up first. Then the browser. Both manually in that order. There is no problem here.
To me, it appears the browser seems to loose contact with the modem (or the other way around). The dialup is there, but the browser(s) seem to think it isn't.
I swapped that POS Wintel software modem for a real 3Com hardware modem and I'm trying it now.
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I read but must have missed it.
There could be a lot of things happening. A lot of programs go out and check to see if they need to be updated on a regular basis. They could all be looking to download an update. I am somewhat doubtful that Yahoo games can be played well on a dial-up connection. What I would probably do is to hook the computer up to a broadband connection somewhere else and see if the problems go away.