Can't Get Windows Updates

[gstone4911]

A friend of mine lives in a very rural area and has been using dial-up for the last ten years,
with no problems other than slow.

Two weeks ago he signed for:
http://www.bamawisp.net/home.php
he can download pages but it some times pauses for about 20 seconds before the page loads.
So we checked his upload speed and it peaks from 4 to 10 with a download speed of about 151kbs.
which is low compared to my charter cable connection.

The big problem is now when he tries to get Windows Updates he gets this:


Went through all the Microsoft suggested fixes and nothing helps.
bamawisp.net seems to think it has to do with his low upload speed
and there trying figure out a way to increase it.
I was wondering if the low upload speed could really be the problem?

Any thoughts would would be appreciated.

XP Home
256meg RAM
2gig processor
128meg video card
sound blaster live

[dammit]

Hi buddy... there are quite a few suggestions as to a fix here.

[gstone4911]

Thanks dammit for the response.

I'll take the page to my friends house tomorrow and try the fixes.
I'll let you know it turns out.

[gstone4911]

Thanks dammit for the information but it turned out
to be SpyBot that was blocking. He said
after unchecking or removing a couple of items
he got all 65 updates.
Thanks Again