cholla

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. 😁
 
 

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