cholla

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. 😁
 
 

I'm not now nor have I ever been a member of Facebook,Twitter,etc.
I have no plans to ever be.
They have their own political agenda.
One that is usually opposite to mine.
So I like forums.

I looked through my old download installers I have saved.
I have the 4.08 installer that shows 2007 as the date I downloaded it.
 
I don't have CableNut installed on my computers any more.
 
I bet it is still on my mothballed IBM with Windows 98 SE on it.
It's probably been 3 or 4 years since I booted it.
It booted fine but surfed very poorly.
No web site likes even the latest version of a browser that Windows 98SE will run,
Which is some old FireFox portable.
 
I keep it so if I want to run some old program if I need to.
 

Welcome to the forum.
 
I would search for & read some reviews recommended modems for AT&T DSL .
There probably is a better one.
I had AT&T DSL a long time ago .
I am in town so I got the paid for speed.
 
This may not work for you & AT&T may not offer this any more.
I dropped my landline but kept DSL.
This allowed me a dedicated DSL line with no filters needed.
This did get the speed to the max paid speed fairly constantly.
 
I went to cell phone only for a while.
Then I went to VOIP with Skype.
It worked OK since I didn't video Skype.
 
I have cable now & I use an OOMA Telo for my VOIP.
I believe it will also work with DSL.
 
I doubt the Firestick will ever stream well with DSL.
 
I dropped any satellite or cable TV .
I have a good antenna & get my TV OTA.
 
For YouTube.
Download with a downloader .
Then play with a video player on your computer.
 
I use this downloader: Just keep using the free starter version.It works well for most things.
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader
 
VLC is a good media player that will play most videos.
It works a lot better than WMP.
 
 
 
 

Thanks for the reply.
I just like a good joke if there is one.
I had seen the Bernie meme on the internet.
That's how I knew who it was.
I just thought there might be more when he was on the hood of a Chinese car or at least a car with Chinese writing on the door.
I'm not an expert it could even be Japanese writing.
I don't plan on learning either.
I guess it can be good to know:
 

This is how I searched:If you try it then Show off your desktop should be in the list.
 

Hi  xs1,
On looking at your earlier post You weren't that insulting.
Called Kiwegapawa  a novelist although I believe it implies fiction.
Then questioned whether an ISP would bother to do this to one person.
Probably the tin foil hat picture is what got the response.
 
I was also a moderator here at one time.
Remember the old site all gray with an alien or monster as the logo.
This site did really get busy a while after that.
 
The movie quote topic &  name the song  were so busy it was like playing a game.
 
Too bad it has slowed down so much.

Hi speedy final: the 2nd test is closer to accurate .i just put the first one in because it was so fast.The upload needs to be faster though.Thanks Cholla

heh VanBuran: I thought I would post my tests with you fast guys.these were taken 1/14/2005 aprox 7:20am cst USA .there is one that I took yesterday at your site in Sweden at this post:  56K regular dial-up score .The rest are from this morning.
56k regular dial-up $9.99 a month at nts-online.net located in Lubbock Tx.The downloads are good but my upload could be a lot better It was the same with & without the firewall. :cool:Cholla
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 93 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Download Speed is:: 11 KB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 2 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 93.09 second(s)
Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=8GZ5XYCMK
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 65 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Download Speed is:: 8 KB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 1 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 128 second(s)
Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=2FGN3UKYT
:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 16 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 386 KB)
Upload Speed is:: 2 KB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 0 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 512 second(s)
Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=5VAJ4R6QL

Dial-up settings These are for ME but some will be simular in XP.I hope you find some of it useful.
Download & install Cablenut;use the ccs file for your OS & connection.
I make these adjustments to Cablenut for a custom dial-up file if it doesn't make yours work better you can use the ones that
it puts in automatically.On the RWIN use the one of the settings suggested by

I think we need this somewhere as a sticky.For now I'm going to post it in general.These are the codes that work for Windows ME.
So would someone with XP see if they work for them.Or post the codes that do work for XP.
If your posting & need one of these letters or symbols.Just hold down your Alt key while typing the code in the number pad.btw they won't work with the numbers at the top of the keyboard.

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I think we need this somewhere as a sticky.For now I'm going to post it in general.These are the codes that work for Windows ME.
So would someone with XP see if they work for them.Or post the codes that do work for XP.
If your posting & need one of these letters or symbols.Just hold down your Alt key while typing the code in the number pad.btw they won't work with the numbers at the top of the keyboard.

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