Re: Zone Alarm slowed download speed

I am afraid you are mistaken. A firewall has no effect on your download speed.

Steven

"Paul Schilter" <paulschilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:yKOdnY9jhvEvqxXenZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi All,
> A while back I had questions as to why my Dell 8400 couldn't download
> faster then 2.7 Mb. I tried a whole lot of thinks to fix this. I found
> the solution. Uninstall Zone Alarm. Now booting the computer in safe
> mode didn't help, shutting down Zone Alarm didn't help. Uninstalling it
> and I now have 5.3 Mb download speed. Go figure, perhaps it needed time
> to determine if the download was okay.
> Paul
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