ahh but the secret is (here in the USA) if you have dialup as I do congress passed a law several years ago that if you have a dialup connection your ISP MUST provide you with at least a connection of 53k. My connection was hitting 22000 until I threw a fit with the ISP and now I connect at 53000 and I live WAY out in the country and have tried the sat routine and all else proxy servers modem boosters and that was the only thing that really worked