In a message dated 02/02/2010 03:21:24 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
You might already have done this. If so, cancel last transmission :-) 1. Turn off the computer <snip> Thanks for the suggestion Eric, I have done this zillions of times when AOL has prompted me to and it has not helped. This morning I actually was able to log on, I wrote a two line email, pressed the send button and received the response that the line was too busy, I was running no other applications at the time, I'd just logged on so the buffers on my PC or whatever couldn't have been over filled. The send failed. About five minutes later I tried to send the email again and it went - no problem. Can it be that I'm being swamped by someone between me and the exchang hogging the capacity? I experimented with a three friends' 'phone numbers and postcodes who live in the same village. Two according to BT could get a 1Mb link, the other could get 512kb, but I could at best get 256kb. It is interesting that one of the 1Mb links is only 3 door away from me but enjoys four times the speed. Odd? To rub it in I received an offer from BT by post (addressed to me not a 'cold' flyer) extolling the virtues of superfast 40Mb broadband and asking me to partake (subject to line capability of course). In my simple arithmetic that is 160 times the speed BT is actually capable of delivering. Talk about trade descriptions! Arthur Naylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
