Well,

Perhaps I shouldn't respond to my own posts so much so hope no one minds.

I think I am up a creek without a paddle.
I just found out today that what has most likely happened is that the demand for DSL has skyrocketed our here... and instead of dealing much with the extra traffic, they simply overload their lines. The result is that even though I am supposed to receive 1.24 Mb a sec. I am fortunate to get 102kb a sec. A man at IBM support said they go through the same problem here and he thinks our internet provider is doing their best to cover up their faux pas by professing ignorance to the problem, or else they want to sell high price business and not deliver.
I did notice outside my house yesterday they upgraded our connection cable and presto! it is rare to ever see LW's firewall indication appear
That is really puzzling. So here is a new question... do you know of a program I can download that will allow me to open up more banwith to my computer, or basically hog more of the banwith from other users?
Ok, maybe that isn't a nice question or perhaps that is alot to expect of a program, but hey, if I don't ask I will never know
Thanks