I have recently been able to get a connection by DSL.  I was so excited about
this until I got it.  It has been a terrible experience.  The speed is not up
to par and seems to be slower than dial up.  I have two desktop PCs hooked up
through a network.  Does anybody have any pointers on things I can look for
to see if something is not working correctly.  I never knew this was going to
be such a painful experience!!!

Hi
As a general answer I would suggest that you should try optimizing the
TCP/IP Stack.
Here how, http://www.ezlan.net/Internet_Speed.htm
I can not say any thing beyond since the only information that you provided
is that you have DSL.
You have to provide more information concerning the connection (type. speed,
etc.), the hardware involved from the wall plug to the PCs, and how it is
configured.
Jack (MVP-Networking).


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had a friend with the same problem.make sure all phones are ran thru the
filters they gave you with the dsl set-up kit.if one is not pluged into a
filter or plugged into the wrong side of the filter then it will relly mess
up your speed.that was the problem he had,easy fix.you can check your
download and up load speed at speakeasy.net.click the location closest to you
and run the test.i've been haveing problems with mt speed also and after
haveing a tech at the house for 3 day we found my outside phone lines wont
handle the 6megs i had ordered.they turned me down to 3 megs and all is
better.not looseing sync as i was before.

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