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Please help me. I went away for the weekend and when I came back suddenly I was having all these problems. I'm on dialup, I get home and connect to the internet and suddenly nothing happens. The connection is there but nothing will load up. I first noticed a problem when AIM said my buddy list could not be found. Then my home page sat for minutes without ever loading. I can't seem to fix it either. I'm on a different computer that is running a slower connection than mine and it is even working faster.

I spent 20 minutes with Earthlink's tech support last night and he had me clearing cache, restoring web settings, and nothing seems to work. I have tried everything to fix this, including trying diferent cables and phone lines to see if it was something external causing the problem.

The only other bit of information that I can give is that Internet Explorer is also taking an irregular amount of time to even open in the first place. But I've also tried using AOL Explorer and I still have the same problem. Everything was working fine when I left town on Friday (last time I had used the computer was Thursday night.) The computer also had not been touched from the time I left until the time I returned.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated. This is really annoying me now. Thank you in advance.