Topic: slow internet

[Simon]

This might be of interest to you, Adam, posted earlier by Hookstar:

http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm

[adamdaly]

ok got it sorted. turned out to be a virus. norman av didn't find it in a search i ran last night so i decided to dl th upgrades. but as my connection wasn't working properly, making this imposible, i decided to dl another av, from grisoft. ran this and it found 2 viruses. so system now clean and healthy. been online for an hour, and no problem. just for the record, i have received 8MB while only sending 500K.

thanks for all the help.

adam daly

[Simon]

Glad you got it sorted, Adam.  It just goes to show the importance of having up to date virus protection, and Grisoft AVG does come highly recommended.  It might be wise to also consider getting a decent Firewall, as the built in XP effort, really only does half the job.  See above for recommendations.

[joudi]

Glad for you got it sorted Adam.

But still one thing I couldn't understand since the beginning, which you didn't yet clear:

just for the record, i have received 8MB while only sending 500K.

What do you mean by receiving 8 MB and sending 500 K ?

Does that Internet speed exist to the public at our time, or you are in advance some years?

Or, maybe my understanding and my knoledge is limited? Did I misunderstand the point here?  

Thanks

[Adept]

He means the total amount of data transmitted in one Internet session Joudi