On 27 Nov 96 14:58:47 EST, you 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?
This month's Internet magazine (no25, December 96) is worth looking at
for its review of ISPs for which it uses a variety of user criteria.
It also has a regular feature giving surveys of availability amd
access response statistics for the previous month for a range of ISPs.
Compuserve, Demon and Pipex rarely come out well !! (Still I stick
with Demon).
Also, there's a good cover disk on this month's edition - worth it for
that alone to save a lot of downloading time of some good software.
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Rob Tweed
IM&T Consulting Ltd; Health Web Services Ltd;
M/Gateway Developments Ltd
http://www.hwsl.co.uk/mgw
Tel: (+44) 181 540 1325
Fax: (+44) 181 715 4337
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