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t1wireless;I haven't done teaming so I won't be much help on that.I think most ISP's use V.34 standard for upload instead of V42 bis or V.44 like they do for DL.So this limitts teh upload speed some.Still do you know why you are only connecting at 26.4 K instead of 37K to 40K? Those are my average connection speeds sometimes higher.I'm a pretty good distance from the CO 26800 FT.

I start with Windows standard in Windows ME then custom color it like I want it. A couple of things Screensaver select none,In effects I have everything unchecked but use large Icons;In Web uncheck"Show web content on my active desktop"; In Apperance use the system fonts for everything or any font that ends in .fon in your font file the .TTF true type fonts have a lot more bytes.IE & most browsers only use TTF but I use Trebuchet MS for web page font & ORC A Extended for plain text font.These are the least byte TTF fonts in the choices. Under Latin based this setting is in Internet Options Fonts In FF the font settings are in toolsoptionscontent & the advanced too. I'm not sure if this is available in XP but try High Color(16 bit) in Settings in Display

php ; Aren't the DirecWay uploads dial-up based?Any way heres the upload with my dial-up. :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 22 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Upload Speed is:: 3 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/05 - 12:16am Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 341.33 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 7.69 % of your hosts average (nts-online.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-XBGQTCL36

dlewis23 ;I read the posts & saw wyantm06 had used delete & was able to get into his BIOS.Sometimes others read or search the posts so a hint or two for another PC could help them.|3v|lon3| Does seem to want people to Google first personally I have used several search engines & still not found an answer to some questions.Most can search best on the serch engine they like best Google,Yahoo,MSN,0r even Ask Jeeves.I use a IE based program that has 11 search engines you can check but you can only use 4 at a time.Meaning it will search 4 simultanously & load 4 web pages. It is Solway Search.

ROM_DOS is no longer on dial-up. So I guess he shouln't be green he's XP Tweak Expert now. How about this Dial-up = money saved & money saved = green or out in the boondocks = green. vomit = multi -colored At least mine is but that's just gross. btw the orange is post count based.

cholla & ROM_DOS are green. I guess we need a color chart.I don't know if there is one I will have to find out.

Thats what this topic is about problems with tech support.Some stories will be terrible some funny. Swimmer did what I do keep complaining till you get the results you want. A good rule of thumb is never yell or hang up.This confuses the lower level techs because they are used to making customers angry.Sometimes I think they are trained to do this.When you hit the I can't do that answer then calmly ask to talk to that techs supervisor.Keep doing this till you get to a management level that the tech you are talking to can do what you ask(or at least tells you they can.Also ask their name & employee number &extension number.There are sure a lot of Bob Smiths & Jane Does living in India these days.

Try the Mega codec at this site .It should let you play most of the flash type players. http://www.codecguide.com/features_mega.htm

F1 is what my IBM uses to go into BIOS.Another way that works on my PC is Hold Ctrl when you power on your PC this gives a keyboard stuck error which activates the option to go into BIOS.On mine you have to enter the administrator password if you want full access to BIOS.

Hi all;I will probably move this to dial-up but I wanted to put it in general first to get more response. My ISP blocks ping & tracert so I can't use them for tests. The Round Trip Time (RTT) in the NDT test is faster with a smaller RWIN(all other settings being the same) but the testmy DL test is slower.I'm posting the results (just a small part of the NDT). I have done this several times & it consistently does this. Anyone able to explain this? RWIN 5840 Web100 reports the Round trip time = 508.95 msec; the Packet size = 1460 Bytes; and No packet loss was observed. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 48 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 6 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/04 - 10:35am Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 170.67 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 7.91 % of your hosts average (nts-online.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-MTP4HCE6B RWIN 11680 Web100 reports the Round trip time = 740.17 msec; the Packet size = 1460 Bytes; and No packet loss was observed. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 75 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 9 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/04 - 10:46am Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 113.78 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 12.36 % of your hosts average (nts-online.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-W8FYPGRSI

You should like this .s1 my last months fast food was about $8.00 I like Weinersnitzel Polish sandwiches ocasionall & I haven't found a Polish sausage that tastes the same as thiers'.For the most part I cook at home.I would rather have cold leftovers from home than most fast food.It has been 28 years since I ate in a McDonalds I got food poisoning twice from 2 different McDonalds.My brother got a bad case from Taco Bell.So its a lot healthier not to eat at the fast food places not to even get into the calories. That probably explains why at 52 I only weigh 190 lbs have a 34 inch waist not much of a gut.I did let myself get to 205 once but the all meat Atkins' diet took care of that. It took about 3 months to go from 205 to 180.

FGOKURULES;Just a couple of posts were off.Why don't you resize the avatars you post to fit the allowed forum avatar size so they can be used?This only applies to animated avatars.They can only be used if they are 100 X100 pixels or smaller .If you put in a larger animated .gif then when you use it as an avatar it only uses 1 still from the .gif. You can post them in Additional Options larger & they are animated but not as an avatar. If converted to code a larger animated .gif will also work as a sig. The larger cattoilet didn't animate correctly so I removed it.

I have a tech story about SBC.I called to ask about their "data line quality test" & was told all they had was ont they could doo & it would tell them if the line was "OK". That would be the result they got was "line OK'.After talking to 5 or 6 techs at SBC & several calls including a couple where they transfered me before I could stop them to their Yahoo DSL division in India.The Yahoos in India really didn't know what I was asking for.Finally by accident the transfered me to a tech center in Little RocK with a maybe they could help me.They knew exactaly what I was asking for & gave me a toll free number for the test.Its the one I posted that is done from Hyperterminal. Most of the so called SBC techs had never even heard of the test & I'm talking about American ones.So much for training.

Elite.Pete ;Yeah I'm still on dial-up but I don't have a problem with that.I tweak it to the max & it works pretty well for dial -up.I still think that the phone companies could make dial-up work a lot better over a POTS line.But they are in the business of selling DSL & they want to encourage dial-up users to go that way.If they could stop dial-up entirely I think they would.To make their voice lines be less congested.

coknuck ;Heres one you can try.

This will be added to there have been some requests for these.I still recomend finding one for the specific modem you have .(If possible). Just click & open to veiw or save if you want to DL a copy. btw it may take a couple of minutes for a .pdf file with dial-up but the .txt file will be pretty fast.

justinlay;I saw some in the post for toast.net btw it would probably take me a week to do them all with dial-up.

Hi all: I split this topic so if the URL posted by jeffwalker9999 looks like spamming it is because the posts with it are closer togather.So partly my fault.

I have a freind that works at a scrap metal yard maybe he could run the electro magnet on his crane over the HD. Aggr3 ;I have a degauser on my monitor menu but I don't think I can get it to my HD. Seriuosly I would like to see what data that an expert could get off a HD that had just been formatted & was supposedly erased.

I don't have any of the retreival software so I can't say what it would find.Have you ever used any of the DOD level retreival software to see what it found on an "erased HD"?

jeffwalker9999; Thanks for the DL .I haven't done the setup.exe on it yet but intend to.

php ;You should check out the link.I have throughly erased a HD to do a clean install or thought I did.It showed no OS afterward & 0 data.The software that the link site sells some of it is for retreiving data from an erased HD. I have some software called IBM PC Doctor that does an extra good jod of erasing for a clean install.But if the sales hype on the site is correct someone with the right software could still retreive data from the erased HD.

jditto ;I haven't singled out Verizon I said or their competion.The topic really has nothing to do with the internet quality of service.Only that One persons service wasn't installed when it was supposed to be.I don't yell over the phone but insist on going up the chain to someone that can get what I need done.btw I have been successful at doing this. I don't see my logic as flawed & I'm sure companies do get contracts beyond what most individuals do .But like I said this topic has nothing to do with the internet service Verizon provides after the connection is hooked up.So your logic is flawed in explaing that no ISP can guarantee network service.Who doesn't know that.

I split this topic from Search Engine Removal of Personal Info -Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft as requested (cholla) jeffwalker9999 ;I knew you could find forum posts with a search engine if you have a common user name like mine then there is other stuff among them. For the personal information it seems most of the sites for this want a fee for the information. I will have to see if I can find it but I ran across some software for erasing old deleted data off a hard drive like the forensic information the police extract.They said they didn't sell this to individuals.Only to certain businesses & the government.Not that I have anything that would incriminate me that I know of .But what if a hacker could pull it off your HD remotely. This is the software: Data Elimination Suite http://www.forensics-intl.com/suite3.html M-Sweep Pro is part of the suite. http://www.forensics-intl.com/ms.html This is part of their site info below. Who can, and can't, get M-Sweep Pro? Unfortunately this software can be used to eliminate evidence of criminal violations and terrorist activities. For that reason, NTI restricts the sale of the product to Fortune 1000 corporations, government agencies, pre-qualified lawfirms, pre-qualified accounting firms, hospitals and pre-qualified law enforcement agencies.

jditto ; The TOS is just part of an electronic agreement usually favoring the company that it is written for .I do read these or I have.How ever if a large company was having a company like Verizon or their competition install their phone system. They would have a written contract that had specific performance of the date the work was to be completed. I guess I should have read the start date of this topic Aug.31.2005 I wouldn't even have responded.