tommystanfield
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I'm having the strangest problem with my internet connection. I use dial-up and my speed averages 40Kbps when all is well. For the last few months my speed has dropped to around 12Kbps. I've tired everything I could think of to fix this. At first I thought it was a virus or spyware. I've use AdAware, Spybot, AVG antivirus and my system is clean. My phone line is clear and noiseless. I cleared my cache, defragged , and freed-up a third of my hard-drive. I discovered last week by dumb-luck that If I play a Mpeg movie in my IrfanView program, close it, then reconnect to the internet everything is fine. This works 90% of the time, -not always. I am totally baffled. This is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. I'm running Windows ME with 128MB RAM on an old HP-Pavillion. Can someone please help.