unless it's absolutely needed. AOL is one you cannot avoid, as I understand it. Earthlink's browser is IE anyway. I'd try another browser such as Firefox and keep the cache cleaned out. Cache can speed some page loading and slow others. You can also tweak to eliminate loading of some ads. This should help some. I gave up dial up years ago, myself....life is too short.
I just switched to Earthlink and eventhough I connect at a faster speed than my previous ISP, webpages download slower than before. I don't use the Earthlink homepage, accelerator or mailbox, so I'm wondering since it's such a large program, if I delete it and just use their # to connect to the net, if it will speed up the web pages ? Win XP,SP 2,IE 6 Thanks !

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