Posted by IsoM on February 20, 2002, at 13:07:54
Dr. Bob, just wondering where the problem with download speed is coming from. Sometimes, the page will load normally, but the last few days, it's generally been agonisingly slow, AND I have a cable modem. I can d/l 300K/sec from some sites!
It may only be a coincidence but I think the problems started about the time you updated your site. Any connection? If I'm experiencing difficulties with cable, I dread to think what a 56K modem is having.
I thought you might appreciate a little humour with all the hard work you do for us here. These are true (my son has told me of some other good ones he's encountered too).
"My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
"A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy"."
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