OK, I'll give your instructions a try.

I just tried to download a file from apple.com 82MB and I stopped it when the estimated time hit over 2 hours.

ACTUALLY, for this download, I switched to a G3 600 MHz computer and it is following the same problem line. VERY SLOW Same OS 9.2

My office work computer is a PC. estimated time for the same file 15 minutes.

I need to figure out this problem. I have a G3 tower with 0S 10 on it, maybe I'll compare operating sytems.