firstly, your computer is not all that great...considering the OS (Me) and ram you specify I'm guessing you're running a PIII or similar clocked at ~800MHz...this actually shouldn't affect your download speeds, but will definitely affect your ability to play let's say a recently encoded XviD file...

secondly, get a firewall NOW!...using a computer online these days without a firewall is like walking outside NAKED!...and of course you need a good anti-virus scanner also...

the test (download of a file from magnetmix I assume) not working is not a good sign...you should get some decent speeds off of those...

go here: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ and download the version for 98/Me, install it, update it, and see if that helps..you just may be experiencing 'attacks' from paid shills of the MAFIAA

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