George,
Are you sure you are REALLY connected at 28.8? Sometimes (most of the time
actually) a 28.8 modem connects at speeds considerably lower, like 24000, so
don't expect that a 28.8 is always twice the speed. But of course it could
be your ISP as well. Some of them are really getting rotten at giving you
any bandwidth. Of course, somewhere downstream there could be a bottleneck
too, and this could be what is slowing you up. That's why the PING utility
exists, so you can do some network diagnostics and figure out what is going
on. This is especially helpful if you have a small number of sites which you
consistently access...
Cheers,
Dennis
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