HI I run XP on a PS2-400mhz CPU,

[playingball]

HI

I run XP on a PS2-400mhz CPU, not a fast machine by today's standards but have upgraded the RAM to 256k.
All offline tasks are operated well.

Online with a US Robotics 56k win modem with IE ver. 6.0, I am experiencing "line freeze" regularly which means new pages do not come up and incoming is stopped.

Is this problem related to my low powered CPU?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

My guess is that it is not your CPU speed. I think a little tweaking of your dial-up connection would help a lot. (As likely would a new driver set if one is available).

An excellent tweaking resource is

http://www.broadbandreports.com

See this FAQ on Dial-up Networking from this site for some excellent ideas and troubleshooting steps:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/dial

Also, because of the MSBLAST worm, internet traffic is slow at the present time for everyone.