[john70t]

I'm on a 300mhz, and the country i.s.p. limits the 56k modem to about 28k download and about 2k upload. Slow as heck, but even slower when a single page takes more than a minute to appear.

The slow connection aside, the strange thing is that the computer shows that I'm uploading almost as much as I'm uploading/downloading: at a ratio of 1:10 to almost 1:2 sometimes.

The upload only happens during the download transmission, which is unlike some worm-like porn or ad server.

I've run updated virus and several different ad-ware scans and they all show nothing, so I'm wondering how another program could be leaching off my connection speed. Any ideas please?