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Good to see the responses.
I hoped there would be more.
 
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

I have an older Surfboard cable modem.
It has had no problems for many years.
I never even tried a Suddenlink supplied modem.
Now Optimum since they bought Suddenlink.
Still the same modem.
SB6141.
Fast enough for my connection.
It still only get around 200 or some lower Mbps even though it is supposed to be a up to 300Mbps connection.
I have not done a reset since the speed was changed from 200 to 300.
Maybe that would correct the speed.
It is supposed to be able to do 343 Mbps.
I do not have any splitters on my cable & it is internet only.

Hi All,
As an Original Member I like to drop by every once in a while.
I have not seen many topics I have anything to contribute to these days.
I miss when this forum was very active.
 
This would be a good topic for other members to do the same.
Let us know you are still alive.
Unless you have figured out how to post from the other side.

@ ha05ger,
Unfortunately both  Roco & tommie gorman have passed away.
If either post from the other side I would love to see it.
 

@ ha05ger,
Unfortunately both  Roco & tommie gorman have passed away.
If either post from the other side I would love to see it.
 

I have fixed the SChannel errors.
 
I started with unchecking all of these in Internet Options/Advanced.
SSL 2.0
SSL 3.0
TLS 1.0
TLS 1.1
TLS 1.2
This worked to fix the error but my email images were now all the small black box with a X inside.
Not what I wanted.
So I checked them one at a time & tested with a reboot in between.
All need to be checked.
But that is not all.
I had to go into the Registry & change the settings.
This made the settings permanent.
This is the registry location.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols
 
Two days now & NO SChannel; errors.
 
This could make my OS less secure.
I use Avast email scanner & I do not use IE or Edge.
So I believe I"m OK
 

@ mudmanc4,
This is the post I found the YouTube link in.
 
If you don't know the arrow in the upper right corner takes you to the post.
 
I should have said I am also saddened by Richard's passing.
I had a lot of fun with the movie quote topic with him.
Other topics as well.
Richard's birthday was one day later than mine but 4 years earlier.

Same from me .
God bless all of you.
Don't eat until you explode.
 
 
 

CA3LE thanks for combining my posts the .GIF was an afterthought.
 
Since Thanksgiving is finished for this year I thought I would link an old topic,
I must have PMed water the complete instructions.
I though they were all in the topic but they were not.
Any way she followed them close enough &  said her turkey turned out well.
I've cooked about 36 more turkeys this way since the topic.
I wish I still had the complete instructions written.
I do not need them for myself but if anyone else wanted them.
https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/9268-turkey-time-and-a-huge-waste-of-money/#comment-96374
 

Same from me .
God bless all of you.
Don't eat until you explode.
 
 
 

CA3LE thanks for combining my posts the .GIF was an afterthought.
 
Since Thanksgiving is finished for this year I thought I would link an old topic,
I must have PMed water the complete instructions.
I though they were all in the topic but they were not.
Any way she followed them close enough &  said her turkey turned out well.
I've cooked about 36 more turkeys this way since the topic.
I wish I still had the complete instructions written.
I do not need them for myself but if anyone else wanted them.
https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/9268-turkey-time-and-a-huge-waste-of-money/#comment-96374
 

Same from me .
God bless all of you.
Don't eat until you explode.
 
 
 

Same from me .
God bless all of you.
Don't eat until you explode.
 
 
 

CA3LE,
 
I thought the same.
Since I do power all equipment off whenever I go to bed.
 
I worked with this some more & found the cause & a solution.
The cause was my OOMA Telo.
When starting my modem , router , & the OOMA Telo they are on their own separate Power strip.
This is so I can start them first & power cycle them without shutting down my computer if I want to.
 
Then I turn on a different power strip for my computer.
 
What was happening is the OOMA Telo started first and received 192.168.1.2 .
My computer Network Card wanted 192.168.1.2 but had to accept 192.168.1.3.
As far as I can tell my network card was denied 192.168.1.3 at first then received it.
So my computer & network card worked & showed 192.168.1.3 using ipconfig /all .
 
The solution was going into my router.
Then using Address Reservation for a higher IP Address 192.168.1.25 for example.
I also set the same in the OOMA Telo as a 'Static IP Address".
 
Now no more error shows up even after several reboots.
 

CA3LE I decided to install a fresh Firefox portable also.
Something must have corrupted this browser also.
The fresh copy seems to work for the tests.
I ran my antivirus & it did not find anything.
So I do not know why the portable browsers got corrupted.
For right now the problem is gone.
I also tried the corrupt version again & it has the lag problem.
So it has to be a corrupt file in it.

CA3LE I decided to install a fresh Firefox portable also.
Something must have corrupted this browser also.
The fresh copy seems to work for the tests.
I ran my antivirus & it did not find anything.
So I do not know why the portable browsers got corrupted.
For right now the problem is gone.
I also tried the corrupt version again & it has the lag problem.
So it has to be a corrupt file in it.

Thanks CA3LE,
I pinged dallas.testmy.net the results in latency were about the same as in the image I posted.
So close enough for me.
 
I finally checked out the location under your avatar.
 
I don't know exactly where the problem was but I suspect a corrupt file  in the Opera Portable folder.
It seems to be doing the tests now without the pause & incorrect very fast speed.

This is a video of the odd behavior in my test & CA3LE forum post:
TMN(02).mkv
 
Only in Opera portable .

Cool on the FREE dial-up.
Even more that it always gave you 56K.
I was sometimes able to connect at 56K but most of the time less.
 
I never used any dial-up modem that was not 56K.
A good friend of mine was into the bulitin boards.
He had a modem that he layed the old style telephone headset into.
I believe it was 9600 baud but may have been even slower.
 
I got started with the Internet which was later.
 
I listened to 4 of the different dial up sounds on the wiki.
I will give the rest a listen to later.

Sorry to hear about Tommie.
WE had kept in touch even by email but that slacked off & I guess is had been longer than I thought.
 
He was always very fond of his daughters.
Loved the USA.
 
I don't do Facebook or any of that type social media.
So I would never have seem it on those.
 

RIP ROCO .
I communicated with ROCO by email for a while.
Both that way & on the forum we discussed many things.
He really liked his Citroen cars.
 
I must have emailed something that pissed him off.
He suddenly stopped answering emails from me.
I sent about 4 more emails to see if I could find out the reason.
Then a couple of more times over several years but no response.
I didn't want to spam ROCO.
I guess he had his reasons.

@tdawnaz 
I'm sure it was something I wrote I just never found out what.
ROCO had even sent me a new email address when he changed ISPs.
We had several emails over a couple of years then none.
 

I posted this on the Avast forum:
 
After being ask some questions about Avast version,Other AV & Malware programs, & OS.
This was the answer I got:
 
Note nowhere was my question about the DNS server Avast was trying to use answered.
I wanted to know why Avast was attempting to "Phone Home".
I have all the send information & the like turned off in Avast.
 
In doing some Searching I found this similar URL.
Either click on it or copy & paste it.
http://ip-info.ff.avast.com/v1/info
You will get some information about your location & other things.
So it appears Avast is sending information home.
 

You should be in a Beatles cover band. 😁
 
 

You should be in a Beatles cover band. 😁