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It's All About Speed

Dec 17, 2008 2:46PM PST

Here in Thailand, if you live in a condo, you have two Internet choices: wireless or ADSL. I'm not crazy about the latter, but I signed up anyway.
After two weeks of trying to connect, I now have it. The LAN connection speed says 100Mbps, but it's slow as molasses in January. It takes me almost 20 seconds to click on any web site, to send and receive E-mail(I have Yahoo). The Connection icon shows the local connection to be: Realtek RTL8139/810xFamily Fast.
For what it's worth, I have Windows XP and use Firefox(altho I'm willing to change to IE.
Help!

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The LAN connection speed says 100Mbps . . .
Dec 17, 2008 8:41PM PST

is the speed between your PC and the modem, NOT the ISP speed. What speed is advertised by your ISP?

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Sorry...
Dec 17, 2008 9:23PM PST

I went to the provider website and they tested the speed of the connection:
Bandwidth - 1.84 Mbps
Can download at 235.26 kb/sec.

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(NT) Then, that's it.
Dec 18, 2008 12:19AM PST
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For surfing the net,
Dec 18, 2008 1:15AM PST

230kbps should be fast enough but sounds to me you are not getting that.

You don't happen to use a light dimmer..do you? I found out that's not good for dsl.

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No light dimmer...
Dec 18, 2008 10:03AM PST

my promised speed is 2mbs, so it's technically in the ballpark, but it seems very slow. Next month I've upped the speed to 3mbs, so we'll see what, if any, difference it makes. Thanks for all your comments...