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thanks, somehow my text doc got changed and it was messing things up - it still does it for some reason sometimes   but i restored the opening file ext and that helped and now i can at least choose all files and that saves it with the media player icon ready to be opened thank you

Here is some general knoledge from my observation - I have had DW 6000 for a couple years  - If i recall it was 600.00  for dish etc,  and then 59,99 a month for 15 months - that was the contract  -  I usually got about 1000 down and anywhere from 7-14kb a sec up.  it was pretty consistant when it ran.  The problem was I got TCP ed out alot - Often in the afternoons from noon to about 6:00 pm the tcp acceleration would be out-  Everything was grounded perfectly but still I fould myself with my thumb on the wire trying to reduce the static and trying to get it to run alot.  (you know what i mean if you have one)  Also the signal was strongly affected by weather.  Rain (light was ok) but medium to heavy it was out also it would go out with storm clouds in the sky (especially of a storm was moving in or off)  DW hates storm clouds.   Overall when it ran it ran ok but it didnt run alot as well I would guess 10%-15% of the time on any given day the thing didnt work. And at 2.00 a day fee you would like to see those #s at 2 to 5%  - or thats how i figured it.  Also you can realistically download 164 mb then you are capped off until 4-8 hours  (and that is if you dont hit the cap  - if you do then you mine as well just go to bed and wait till the next day)    Well now I have wildblue.  I paid 346.00  total for dish and installation  (i think wb still has free installation for another week)  But I do have the 1.5 down 256k up  package for 79.99 a month BUT also included with this is dial up access # so if for a reason your sat doesnt work you do have a dialup #.  What uis nice is that you get 17 gb a month download  which is an average of about 600mb a day (but you can use as much as you want when you want)  also you get 5000gb up limit - again to use when you want - and every 30 days the amount resets back to zero - So if you want to download a 300 mb file, no problem. DW cant do this - Also it works much much better with weather and clouds.  And i find myself with no dead spots during the day and I dont have to "thumb" the stupid cord   as the tcp aint out every minute.  I get about 1550 down and 216kb up  - maybe a little slower at sometimes but generally as advertised.  The DW did seem to page surf slightly better  from page to page and downloading of Pics etc..  The wildblue doesnt seem to do that quite as well - close, but truthfully I do think the DW was a little better at page surfing also with multiple windows opened DW seemed to do well- Wildblue is better at opening large web pages and is faster at that task.   The client to download for the WB is a small 300  program - much like the DW and no problem at all - email works slightly different but about the same etc etc..  So far I am happier with the WB  because of the downloads and speedburts - I have seen 600-800 speedburts making a 1 mb file download a 2 sec process -  i really like that - it wont show on speedtests but in real world downloads you will see nice speedburts.  And MORE often than not you will see 400 speedburts dropping to about 220    - The DW was a pretty consistant 125-130kb a sec  so the WB on the pro package is about 2 times the download speed AT MINIMUM  -  hope this helps you out -  Keep looking at the sky.  over and out

thanks alot all that seems like that is it - much appreciated!

Just to let you know I went yet again 3rd 100 mile trip (yep i live in the sticks) to get my 3rd Gateway lcd screne in hope that this one would be ok and no pixels out - tested it AT THE STORE  and it looked good  - got it home and .. well.. it still looks good!  3rd time a charm I guess - HOWEVER the manual says that the pixels being out (amount and location on the screne) is normal and the woman at the store said she called and Gateway only guarantees over 100 pixels out - Can you believe that?  That cant be true but who knows  - anyway looks like im looking good .  Thanks all for listening

Is it common for branmd new ones to have pixels that are out - and it isnt exceptable is it - or is it common place and gotta live with it - I mean should i expect the next one , after i return this one, to have one out also?  how common is it for a new lcd?