boywonder ;I don't really know anything about Eskimo maybe ROM_DOS does if I lived in the Washington area I would try nocharge like he has.It isn't available to me in Texas.I use nts-online.net it's Ok but could be better.My best connect speed 46 usually 41 or 42 but this is good since I am 26500 feet from the telco.I can use DUN which allows me to tweak or I wouldn't get the speed I do.My ISP says I should only get about 28 at this distance.So 46 is good for a lot of dial-up .
On the second question I use AVG too.I use Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal & Spybot S&D for spyware.I use Agnitum Outpost firewall.I also use SpywareBlaster.

Who doesn't like Harry PotHead? I see you've checked out my-space should come around and play some cards sometime. Perhaps help me pay for a satellite connection

While on the subject about satellite I was getting connect speeds of 45 till I went around unplugging phone cords and such and found that my satellite box was also plugged into a phone jack popped that baby out scrambled to the comp. dialed up and it boosted my speed to 46 not much difference but inch by inch it's a cinch right?

My modem driver is updated although not really up-to-date. Don't believe it is my modem I went out and bought 2 USR modems recently one internal the other external both lowered my connect speeds for some reason down to 36 and 33 sometimes even lower. So I re-turned them and got my $change$ back.

My current CableNut settings are your recommend ones but I get hammered with a ton of errors that I know has to be slowing me down somewhat if not alot. w/o them I do not receive any errors  any suggestions?

As for my distance from me to my switching office the site came up saying unknown lol must be pretty darn far I'll give them a call in a bit and see what they say

After looking over the software I may d/l through Trend I'm limited on what I may get. To bad the firewall is one of those limitations.
So I went with McAfee figured it would be better than Symantec. If it's free for a year and I can renew it over again for free why not?
If not I can always switch over

Alright time for me to go check my traps lol mite b havin possum stew fer lunch u all err welcome to come on over ya her

Just got off the tele ready for this one I am 32,500 and some odd feet away from my telco with that distance I should be very pleased with my connect speeds I guess blahh lol.

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 40 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Wed Jan 04 2006 15:12:20 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB download in 204.8 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 5.38 % of your hosts average (Level3.net)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-GM0FKDEPH

Connected this time at 46 it is getting close to peak time should wait and see what I get later tonight

Hey D.U.K.E ~ this might seem like the craziest question, yet,
but do you think it's possible I might be piggybacking a dedicated line, like some kind of resonance phase lock loop, allowing me to jump lines somewhere? . . .'cause I swear ~ my speeds look alot like that might be what's going on, sometimes!  ~ Strange, I know ~ but...?

[I know this might be a little off topic, but it's our forum ~ so who's gonna mess with us?] lol

cholla ~ I called my telco ~ QWest ~ and after over 25 minutes of listening to ". . .your time is valuable to us, thank you for holding. . ." and one customer service rep and one supervisor later, ~ all they would tell me is that I'm really close ~ I qualify for a 7MB DSL line ~ their highest ~ (16,000 ft. is the max distance to get a 256KB DSL connection.)

. . .So, I must be sitting right on top of it!  I live in Lacey, WA., a barb town of the state capital ~ I know there are alot of telecom companies around me, but when it comes to any QWest offices ~ the nearest is in Seattle ~ 70 some miles away!  They won't tell me how many feet away I am. . .

I might just check out switching to that DSL connect w/ QWest, after I do all the up-grades I want to do to my system, first.

God this company rips people off even worser that AOL

$20 A MONTH AND A SESSION LIMIT GOD THAT SUCKS

funny thing was ~ when I asked the rep where she was, she said IOWA ~ lol
. . .believe me, I tried every approach to get them to give me some distance.

QWest bought out US WEST or something like that a few years back.  US WEST's office was a few miles up the road, next to the cemetary ~ now it's part of it ~ lol

. . .the dslreports link gives me an address, which is a few blocks away ~ I'll go look for the address and see what it 'really' is ~ lol

Provider Distance = 5179 feet LACYWA01 ~ lol
. . .like I said, I must be sitting right on top of them!

. . .should I go get a DSL modem and see if I can 'resonance' jump to it ~ lol

Right on love the Harry Potter pic 

I have the modem irq tweak applied and pretty much every other tweak and reg edit, ROM/Cholla have reccomended in their previous topics.
I was wondering if there were a way I can do something in my phone box outside my home that would change my line from Voice to Data?

Dark06
I'm not looking to pay for their service if that was the case I'd get a local service closer to me. I'm merely looking at the possibility that NetZero is a factor as to why I cannot tweak certain settings and achieve better results.
With Eskimo I can use DUN and it's free for 2 weeks no credit card, check or such has to be givin out during init. sign up. Infact they don't even accept credit cards if after the 2 week trial you like there service a check or money order must be sent out otherwise the user/pass become invalid.

Found it cholla, it's hidden behind some bushes in a residentual neighborhood, big big yellowish block house w/ big big Air Conditioning in-take and out-take duck/vents and a couple of QWest service trucks.  The enterance is the same as the one going to Brooks Park ~ it's exactly two blocks due East of me ~ .7 miles.   . . .would have never noticed it before ~ lol ~ but it's the biggest (local) switching station I've ever seen!  It still has a US WEST sticker on it's mailbox.