hi everyone, i recently formated my friends computer and installed windows xp home. he has a pentuim 3 733mhz with 256 ram. the brand of the computer is mercury, i downloaded all the relevant drivers for the computer. and everything runs fine. i installed a new optus wireless usb modem for the computer, however as soon as the internet connects the whole computer slows down, and the internet takes a long time to load web pages, almost like it was 56k, even though the modem has full reception. any ideas?