Problem with transfer rate

alphaboo · #1 01-29-2005, 03:34 PM

Don't know who saw my post but I said I was having trouble with my downloads ever since I downloaded BS player.

I figured out what the problem is but have no idea how to fix or stop it.

I'm still on dial-up. My transfer rate is 10.0 K/sec. Or was.

Now when I download my transfer rate starts at 10.0 k/sec but slowly drops as the download proceeds.

I can watch it drop every second. first to 9.0 then slowly down to the 3.0 and finally, the lowest it ever dropped to was .37 k/sec.

At 10.0 k/sec I could download any clip in less than 20 minutes. With this problem I am seeing download times of 3 and 4 hours.

Does anyone know what this problem is caused by and how I can fix it?

I can afford a high speed line like dsl for a few months.

Thanks for any suggestions

**eNergy** · #2 01-29-2005, 07:12 PM

Sound's to me alphaboo that you have problem with your dial up provider. I can't see how BS player would have an effect on your D/L speed's.

Have you tried uninstalling BS player to see what effect it has on your connection stat's??.

eNergy

**stony** · #3 01-29-2005, 07:51 PM

Also, have you checked for spyware recently. If not, you might want to give that a try. Use adaware and spybot search & destroy (both free). To keep spyware off once your system is clean, use spywareblaster:http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html. I put that on my system and haven't had a single piece of spyware in over 4 months.

alphaboo · #4 02-05-2005, 09:46 AM

Thanks.

It seem to be a bizarre temp thing. When I changed the BS play from default it seems to have cleared up the problem and my download rate went back up. Weird though. I never saw anything like that before.

Thanks for the spyware thing. I don't think I have any but I am concerned about.

A few months ago, Verizon, I mean verizon, a big company, slipped some spyware crap unto my system when I was checking out their site for DSL.

You can't trust anyone!!

Thanks