Modem seems to "hang"

[Beverley]

I have a P3 win 98SE machine with an external USR 56K modem. My problem is that the modem seems to hang in so far as I will click on a link, or a new page or whatever and nothing seems to happen. That is no lights show on the modem and the system just sits there for up to 3 or more minutes and then will come to life, lights flash and the system works. This problem has been around for some months and is present on 2 machines with W98SE and the same modem BUT I have changed modems to an internal lucent ( no difference) changed ISP's (no difference) and I have asked everybody I meet ( no answers) A compac laptop W95,plugged into the same outlet and with the same ISP's does not behave this way and responds immediately every time. Has anybody encountered this problem? and is there a solution? Thanks.

[coolsights2000]

Have you tryed to clean up your hard drive

open internet explorer at the top go tools/internet options

when the options window opens

in the internet options panel you will see delete cookies --- delete history --- delete files

click on each one of this will do some clean up

next go thur and click on each tab at the top click on the buttons that says restore defaults or reset

remember to click apply after each one

go though each one internet zones and reset the defaults you have to click on each picture at the top to see each zone

try this if it doesn't work then we will hit up your modem driver and settings

after you have done these things reboot your computer

Thanks
Mac!!!

This Is just my opinion
So if it stinks wait for another one
Cause I'm no expert

[coolsights2000]

one other thing you might want to check for is you might have pick up some adware or spy ware along the way do you have a firewall do you check for spyware you can read my old post to pick up some pointers allot of programs are black balled from my putter!!!!! since I wrote this post I have added a adsubtractor and added a restricted zones list plus a few more things

Click Here (http://forums.winguides.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=genwin&Number=17310&page=10&view=collapsed&sb=5&part=)

Thanks
Mac!!!

This Is just my opinion
So if it stinks wait for another one
Cause I'm no expert