Comment Re:That's gonna suck for some people (Score 2) 79
It seems like the better solution would be to upgrade the 28.8k modem.
Sarcasm aside: I never had the conversation with the network guys about the real source of the problem, but my suspicion was that it had less to do with bandwidth and more to do with poorly tuned multi-threading settings on the individual workstations. Windows would lock up entirely for minutes at a time, while Gmail tried to do its thing -- but absolutely nothing else I did on that workstation had that same impact on performance; it was literally just Gmail. It was admittedly very odd.