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You might be onto something, Jeff. Within the past 20 minutes or so, on 3 different occasions my browser froze up and wouldn't load, so I turned off the LAN radio for a few seconds, and when i turned it back on, things were fairly snappy again. Of course, it does get old having to do that so...

Jeff, I don't know what a router is. I reboot my laptop frequently. I have a radio receiver for my wireless LAN ISP. I don't know if that's what you're talking about. I do turn it on and off a lot since I'm on solar power. Sat, I did sign up and like I said, it's been crispy lately. But I don't...

Well, thanks, Sat. I signed up for it, although the explanatory page was a trifle skimpy and I still have only a vague clue of what it's about. Surfing and FTPing real crisply now, but don't know how much of a factor the OpenDNS is yet. Time will tell.

Lately my mail has been working great, but FTP is impossible and web pages take for ever if they ever do load. Some sites are flat inaccessible. I did copy the IP, DNS, etc. numbers off another PC that was running well on this ISP. There was only 1 digit difference, in the IP. The DNS, etc...

I've been using the settings that the ISP told me. That's the extent of my technical knowledge about that. Another detail I forgot to mention earlier: last winter it was surfing real slow. I went and visited my parents in a faraway state for 2-3 weeks. They have Cox ethernet. My laptop did...

Even when I'd only had it a few months, my PowerBook G4 would sometimes surf (actually, perform all internet functions, such as mail and uploads) at a very slow pace despite ample bandwidth. My bandwidth now is above 500 mbps, but it takes sometimes minutes for a page to load. Clearing the...