01-02-2005, 03:11 PM
Mostly this is because there are maybe too many people in the place where you live hooked up to dial up. The more people use it the more you have to share bandwidth. With dial up you are really lucky if it does actually go up to the full 56k, I haven\'t seen that happen yet. Back in the olden days when I used to use it, I usually had a connection speed of 49K but it did drop down to about 25/26 sometimes.