you are correct Indyan. when we open gpedit to configure the QOS packet scheduler it shows that reservable bandwidth is NOT CONFIGURED.. REGARDING CONNECTION SPEED IN DIALUP the main thing is the traffic in your locality or local telephone exchange. not the regular phonecalls but the traffic in internet usage. in my locality i am perhaps the last person who uses dialup and while i am writing i am getting getting a connection speed of 52 kbps and i download pages at 4 kbps speed at an average with all the features in opera 9 turned on. this is a thing which no software can help. solution: go for broadband. or use a download manager to download in dialup. and opera is the best in such a situation. i have tried all the popular web browsers and i preffered to stick with opera along with free download manager 2. thanks