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Originally Posted by jetskier
Hi Knot Droolin'
I doubt that this is the issue, but for you, I will give it a try. 
Thanx!
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LOL, thanks!
If I could get on my soap box and give one other piece of advice to others out there while we are on the topic of bandwidth:
One thing that probably isn't the issue here, but that millions of PCs nationwide are plauged with is unpatched, zombie PCs. Many, many times network providers hear complaints from users about "how slow my connection is" when in fact their PC is an "owned zombie". Meaning it is owned by a criminal who has compromised it. Once the "Bot Master" owns enough PCs around the world he then sells time on these zombie PCs to other shady people such as email spammers.
If your PC is a zombie you may not know it unless you notice a decrease in speed. That decrease in speed is due to your PC sending out millions of spam emails in conjuntion with the rest of the zombied "bot herd". This decreases both your PC's available bandwith and impacts the PCs CPU. There are tens of millions of zombie PCs on the 'net and everyone is vulnerable. Here is a quick article in layman's terms:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021601388.html
The best way to prevent your PC from falling victim is to patch it. So everyone with a PC please patch monthly!! Microsoft releases patches the second Tuesday of every month. Everyone should visit
http://www.microsoft.com/security every second Tuesday to patch their system.
Ever wonder where spam comes from? It could be coming from your system....
.....Steps down from soap box......
Sorry, I hate spam and over 80% of all email traffic on the 'net is spam.