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Sorry, I should also have said that he's running Win95.

John.

John <johnca@SPAMKILLERbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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> A mate of mine has just loaded the free ISP CD from Barclays Bank which,
it
> seems, installs IE4 as the browser and uses BT Click as the service or
> dialler.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<snip>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Could be, but it also could be a dodgy CD. We distributed 1000s of these
through the branch network and occasionally there is a duff CD which cocks
things up.

Having said that I refuse to use the service. After all they get to pay my
wages, see what I spend my money on ... so why should they see what I do in
my spare time? I can't even fetch my e-mail using OE like I do with all my
other mail providers
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In article <7okeve$a1n$1@neptunium.btinternet.com>, John <johnca@SPAMKIL
LERbtinternet.com> writes
[snip]
>The problem is that when connected to the Internet, the computer slows right
>down to a snail's pace; when typing a new URL in the address bar, each
>character takes seconds to appear - I hit the first w (of www.) and after
>about 3 seconds nothing had happened. I thought it wasn't working, so I hit
>it again. After about 20 or 25 seconds I ended up with 5 w's up there and I
>realised that each keystroke was taking about 4 or 5 seconds to appear and
[snip]
>He's got a PCtel 288I HSP internal modem, which is one of these "winmodem"
>things that utilises the computer's main processor rather than having one of
>it's own which I never did like. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer an
>external modem with lots of LED status lights and it's own innards - you
>know where you stand with them. According to PCtel's website, system
>requirements for this modem are Cyrix 6x86 @ 100MHz (he has a Cyrix 6x86
>running at 110MHz) and 8Mb RAM (he has 32Mb).

It can only be the modem causing this, I had a Cyrix 166 with a proper
modem a couple of years ago and that was fine and before that, a 486.

Get a proper modem, thay can't cost that much.

TB

John wrote in message <7okeve$a1n$1@neptunium.btinternet.com>...
>A mate of mine has just loaded the free ISP CD from Barclays Bank
which, it
>seems, installs IE4 as the browser and uses BT Click as the service or
>dialler.
>
<...>
>The problem is that when connected to the Internet, the computer slows
right
>down to a snail's pace;
<...>
>Apart from the Internet software he's just loaded from Barclays, he
also has
>Cheyenne Bitware (I think that's what it's called anyway)
>installed. This is some sort of telephone answering and fax software,
so
>could this be conflicting in some way?
>


I'd be inclined to uninstall the Bitware stuff.  It's quick to do and
may prove
to be sampling the modem for a fax call and slowing it down that way.

Failing that, get a hardware or external modem.

HTH
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Thank you all for your input. I'll try the things that don't cost any money
first (just in case) but as I said in my original post, I've never liked
these HSP modems and I too am inclined to believe that this is where the
problems lie.

Once again, thanks all.

John.

Phil Thompson <phil@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:37b38d8c.84387997@news.u-net.net...
> On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:23:50 +0100, "John"
> <johnca@SPAMKILLERbtinternet.com> wrote:

>>>>>>>>>snip<<<<<<<<<<

> and that's just to run the modem.  Are these additive to Win95s
> requirements ?
>
> IMHO the machine is not up to running the modem and handling the large
> burden of modern operating systems / software. The chip is not powerful
> enough, though another 64 Mb of memory might help it cope.
>
> Phil
>
> --
>
> Modem FAQs :
> http://www.pierrot.demon.co.uk/faq/dtm.faq
> ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/doc/faq/dtm-56k1.faq
> ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/doc/faq/dtm-56k2.faq
> --

In article <37b38d8c.84387997@news.u-net.net>, Phil Thompson
<phil@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:23:50 +0100, "John"
><johnca@SPAMKILLERbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>He's got a PCtel 288I HSP internal modem, which is one of these "winmodem"
>>things that utilises the computer's main processor rather than having one of
>>it's own which I never did like. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer an
>>external modem with lots of LED status lights and it's own innards - you
>>know where you stand with them. According to PCtel's website, system
>>requirements for this modem are Cyrix 6x86 @ 100MHz (he has a Cyrix 6x86
>>running at 110MHz) and 8Mb RAM (he has 32Mb).
>
>and that's just to run the modem.  Are these additive to Win95s
>requirements ?
>
>IMHO the machine is not up to running the modem and handling the large
>burden of modern operating systems / software. The chip is not powerful
>enough, though another 64 Mb of memory might help it cope.

The top 32Mb won't be cached, the Cyrix also is known to have weak
floating point performance which is probably what the soft modem is
after.  If he can find a Pentium which will work with his motherboard,
I'd recommend that.

TB

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