unusually high dial up speed
 

ok, this isn't really a problem, but i didn't know where else to post it.
i have an ancient dial up connection, on a good day i can usually download any file at around 3kb/s that seems normal and i am happy with that, except earlier today, to my extream astonishment, i was downloading an .avi movie file and it started out just fine at 3kb then it went to 5 then to 7 and keep climbing until, no joke, it reached 29kb/s i couldn't believe what i was seeing i checked my connection speed and it was at 33060k (on a 56k modem) is there any explanation for this? is there any way to get it to do that again? i consider myself somewhat computer literate but this has got me stumpted. any suggestions would be nice.
justin

I don't have an answer to your question but thought I would share my own observation. If I'm downloading a video file using LW and I preview the file by launching it from within LW, while waiting for WMP to open, the total d/l speed shown will go to way over 1000KB/s(the max speed I've ever gotten is 180KB/s with dsl) but the speed shown for the individual files in the d/l window don't increase. After the preview launches everything goes back to normal.
So I think it might be a bug or LW mistakes launching the preview as an increase in d/l speed:confused: