[goldoni]

Good advise from BarFly. Your computer when the systems resources are all used up will shutdown the USB ports to save power even though you have told it not to shutdown. All the people that I have installed a NIC no longer have the problem. They would complain that while downloading the modem would drop the line.

A computer I had in last week AMD 400Mhz with 256Mb RAM running ME with a Tearyon modem via USB with Norton Internet Security installed had the same problem. I installed a NIC, problem solved. The other thing that I changed was his temporary internet files folder from 980Mb to 80mb again your system is working much harder searching 980Mb than 80Mb I also removed 138 spyware 5 registry changes and removed two registry folders and his pooter was flying again.

I would also check the amount of programmes you have running in the background, Norton Internet Security itself is very hungry for system resources if you are using all the modules. (You did not give your CPU speed or amount of RAM )

One other thing that most people donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t admit to using is a software utility to increase the modem speed, but when you look all the modem settings are wrong for their connection. I set them to default settings and change the temp Internet folder as above.



I hope some or all of this helps