what would cause slow attachment downloads from Yahoo Mail

[GLOpro]

Hi,

A friend of mine, who has just connected with Exetel Naked, has indicated that his Yahoo mail downloads are extremely slow ie 17-20kb/s. where his previous provider iPimus appeared to get 200kb/s downloads.

His line speed is ok, for this time of the day being at around 2Mb/s but he is concerned about this speed difference.

how much difference would there be with the backbones of Exetel and iPrimus? And can this be improved?

Thanks

[GLOpro]

actually, it appears that any downloads from US sites start off reasonable then drop right back to crawling pace.

Just downloading 6.2Mb from Firefrox/thunderbird. 43KB/sec