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Old 18-01-2004, 17:50   #6
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Re: Slow broadband / possible timeouts?

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Originally Posted by MarkBooth
Just a few specs for my friends machine:
He's running Windows 98SE.
He's on an Ethernet connection.
He has been on the internet before, with Freeserve if I recall.
And he's running Internet Explorer 5.5.

He does NOT have anti-virus, and has deleted his Zone Alarm firewall.

Hope this helps
First of all get an antivirus and firewall and remove any freeserve software.

Download adaware or spybot and make sure you have no spyware running on the PC

Then change the dns to another other than NTL and it should help
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