Help with PCChip M741LMRT based system

[RoConno]

😕 I've got a problem with my BYO, Slot1, PIII-600Mhz system on a PCChip M741LMRT MoBo. When I am on the internet and want to switch from one page to another, the system will sit there with a spinning world and NO activity on my DSL modem lights for about 45 seconds. Sometimes I'm able to change pages 6 or 7 times before the system stalls and I sit there waiting another 45 seconds.

Has anyone had this experience before, and if you did, how did you correct it?

If the corrective action is replacing the MoBo, any suggestions?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Ron C.

 

[Peter]

These things happen ... most of the time on the provider side of things. The internet does have its own bandwidth problems,
and you probably have that there. The system doesn't hang in these pauses, or does it?

 

[RoConno]

Peter, Thanks for responding!
No, the system doesn't hang. It will eventually respond with the right web page. I just didn't think that my DSL portal and the rest of the Internet would be that congested. Thanks for the help!

 

[Peter]

I assume you possibly can't, but try another DSL provider. Providers who grow their customer count faster than their
infrastructure often run into serious bandwidth problems during Internet rush hour.

If it doesn't go away, your "last mile" DSL connection from your DSL modem to the local phone company hub you're
connected to might have marginal signal quality, meaning that the modems need to retry transmissions annoyingly
often. This would be something you have to live with unless you want to dig up the ground from here to there and lay
a new cable 🙂

regards, Peter