Perhaps they're twiddling the MTU on the dialup line also? Reducing that from 1500 to 576 can give you a better response time at the expense of overall bandwidth (and annoying the routers along the way). I STR some Windows columnist banging on about this about 8-9 months ago...
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Perhaps they're twiddling the MTU on the dialup line also? Reducing that from 1500 to 576 can give you a better response time at the expense of overall bandwidth (and annoying the routers along the way). I STR some Windows columnist banging on about this about 8-9 months ago...