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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2527697" data-attributes="member: 2810">I'm assuming you mean the connection speed it lists when it finishes dialing?With a dial-up connection, line quality is going to have the biggest impact on your speed.  Not just the outside connection, either -- bad wiring inside can make one computer slower than one connected to another jack.  Are both computers plugged into the same wall outlet?  If not, try swapping and see how that affects things. If your computer is reasonably up to date, there probably isn't anything tweakable -- the days when modems varied greatly among manufacturers are pretty much gone.  If the modems are several years old, though, they might be using outdated protocols or firmware (there were competing 56K standards for a while, and some modems -- even dual-standard ones -- did one better than the other).  If you are using old hardware and external modems, there are a couple things you can check that might help.  You might also look at one of the programs that tweaks the internal parameters (TweakDUN was one, as I recall).  These won't affect the 'connect' speeds, but they can optimize the traffic to make the most of what you've got. minimizing the impact of bad transmissions, etc.Absent a fix, you might also try using the Opera web browser.  I find it substantially faster than IE.  It allows you to toggle image-loading on and off easily which can make a big difference when you are digging through layers of pages -- you just turn images on when you get to the end.  It also caches and pre-fetches pretty aggresively, which can give you the impression of faster connection speeds (it doesn't download any faster, but if it downloads the next page while you are reading the first, it seems faster).  This is one case where lots of RAM helps.</blockquote>

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