Ok if it's noise, it's coming in on the cable... have the company check it and place a filter on it... or perhaps you can go to someplace like radio shack or sound advice and discuss it with them. and buy a filter. (The phone line filter for dial up can be found at dollar stores here lol) They are just inline filters for line noise.... (I can't even have regular TV-cable because they can't get the noise off the line without laying new cable duh.)

If you run too many programs when you try and get into your pal site, that might inhibit a full download, I think.