At 14:58 27/11/1996 EST, Sue wrote:
>I have recently started an academic course which utilises a web page and have
>been having trouble accessing the web page in the evening. Access is
>frustratingly slow and documents often hang up during transmission - for long
>enough for me to give up. O.K. my software isn't brilliant but it works fine in
>the early morning so I am inclined to attribute my problems to congestion at
>Compuserve. Are other providers likely to be faster? If so any recommendations?
>
Sorry, it happens to everyone as the Yanks are on-line then.
Try in the mornings, weekends are ok and local BT calls are only about 1p/min.
Generally though the whole net has to many people using it, or looking from
another angle, the ISP's have taken all our money at an ever increasing rate
and not reinvested it sufficiently to meet the increased demand.
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Dr David J Plews
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