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lol. i was just about to reply to your post pointing it out, but i see you figured it out for yourself.

one thing to keep in mind: often buying a box from dell or the like can be cheaper than building a system of the same specs yourself, especially if you get the bundles with monitor printer et al. also keep in mind the cost for os licenses and productivity software. these are mostly bundled with the cheap boxes, while a homebuilt simply does not have all the rebates that a big name like dell can apply to a box.

he could be using verizon dialup. the topic says CACHED RESULT.

fine, belittle my post with the banging drums part. but what i say stands. newest gen is not always best. the 300 buck box from dell will run office well enough, you don't need the 8 grand custom multiprocessor xeon to do that. the only reason to call for the latest broadband tech yesterday is a symptom of dickwaving. my link is faster than yours, i have a 100 meg downstream. so what do you do with that ultrafast tweaked connection? um, run speedtests with awesome results. nuff said.

why bother with rolling out new tech? seriously, where there is cable coverage, running data over that is plenty fast enough. i know there will be people out there saying they want 100/100. ok, i want a porsche too. but i don't /need/ it. as for vb, well, when the wall came dow, the one in germany, they laid fiber to a lot of the customers there for phone service, since it was the holy grail of telecommunications at the time. as for useful, well, they can't even get dsl, since that is a tech intended for wired hookups, not fiber. my guess is that vb is in the position that the telecomms up there have done something similar, laying fiber to the end customer. therefore it is a small additional investment for the isp to be able to offer very high speed internet, capped for traffic so people don't go hosting for free. the population density where he lives is probably not very high, meaning the isps dont need to have topo much bandwidth of their own to supply an area. if it was someplace like the new york area for example, i doubt they could supply it, since the density of hookups there would neccesitate huge hookups on the isps side. even for vb, i would wager that if all the isps customers start pulling data at full speed at once, there will be a bottleneck on the backbone. basically, new tech is fine, but the practicality and neccessity of it is often not there. upgrade what's there, and it will probably be cheaper. there are times when it /does/ make sense to stay one or two generations behind the cutting edge, it reduces cost dramatically if the newest gen tech is not needed.

well, that comment about powerline data transfer way back is interesting. the reason the idea pretty much got nixed is that the bandwidth given (220mbps) is in the verey high range of what is possible, the usual with real world circumstances was around 10-ish or so mbps. sounds great, no? the caveat is, that this is the bandwidth that can be used from the substation. the data is modulated onto the powerline at the substation, and every house behind that would share the bandwidth. take a neighborhood with a hundred houses on one substation, and you see why dsl and isdn pretty much precluded the investment into this technology.

eat my shorts. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 75349 Kbps about 75.3 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 9198 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Wed Aug 3 08:30:25 UTC-0400 2005 Bottom Line:: 1346X faster than 56K 1MB download in 0.11 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 1989.55 % faster than the average for host (adelphia.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NE3QZGFWY

ok. try the following. remove blue from wall to dlink. remove blue from dlink to docking station. remove yellow from dlink to linksys plug blue from wall into linksys wan port. that is the one not marked 1,2,3 or 4. plug blue from linksys port 1,2,3 or 4 to docking station. dlink should now have onlyu power cable connected, linksys should be blue from wall, blue to docking station. that should work. if it doesn't, revert to what you had. then plug the yellow from port 3 of dlink into wan port on linksys (again, the one not marked 1,2,3 or 4)

humor, i missed the port 3 part. good catch. and customer, is it working now? and the reason they supplied it could be because they had no idea you had the other one, it's a freebie anyhow, or whatever. anyhow, let us know if it works now or not...

is what i was saying, the dlink and the linksys are essentially the same thing, just that the linksys has the added feature of being a wireless access point. the fios cable has to come from some device, since, at least according to the info i gathered on the dlink according to your model description, the dlink is just a router, nothing else. hence, if the cable into the dlink has an rj45 plug, which it should have, and is a normal ethernet connection to some box from the fios, which there should be, (someone correct me please if that is not so and i am making a complete hash opf this!), then you can plug the cable from the wall into the linksys, plug the docking station into the linksys, and your wireless should be good to go. (don'tr forget the encryption now, learn from your neighbors mistake).

um, the cable to the d-link that verizon provided, where exactly does it come from? because the 604 is basically a 4 port router, same as your linksys, that hooks in behind the vroadband modem of whatever flavor. your problem might be as easily fixed as unplugging cable from wall(?) from d-link, removing cable from dlink to linksys and plugging cable from wall into linksys. otherwise, you woulkd need to use a crossover cable (probably) to go from the dlink to the linksys wan port. but then all you're doing is running two routers one behind the other.

there is a clear answer: yes. it all depends on what you want the laptop for. graphics and stuff? the apple. raw computing? tossup between amd and intel. if you want to pick a laptop, look at what you need. for example, if battery runtime is the deciding factor, that would swing it towards a celeron. or a pentium with a pricier battery. there are many variables, including screen size, weight, memory (more ram=more power drain), hdd, cd/dvd drive/burner, video input/output etc. put together a list of what you really want/need, then start comparing prices. if what you choose is too expensive, start lowering your expectations. one option is always a cheap, usable laptop paired with a decent desktop. if it's a standalone, docking stations are a good option. put together a list for yourself, or post here, and io'm sure people will be able to come up with suggestions and/or comparisons. it all comes down to your needs.

isn't wishing happy birthday before the actual date bad luck?

before this goes any further, nudge nudge, wink wink!

yes. it's in response to your wtf on tucson1960's post.

php. xp is the successor of nt, and hence a 64 bit operating system. it uses 64 bit bytes instead of the older 32 bit bytes. if you don't have a 64 bit capable mobo, hd, ram etc, the os will cache the upper half of every byte in the swapfile. that's why it's called a swapfile. it swaps between the upper and lower half so the os can deal with the complete bytes. that's what he meant by that post regarding the older comp i think.

i don't remember

sounds more like a problem with the os and its network settings. old box, sounds like an 98se? in that case at least mod the rwin settings.

while we're at it, why don't we just start a what's the best religion thread?

number of aol victims between 20 and 34 million is probably due to: low number 20 mil: people that actually subscribe to it. the additional 14 mil for the 34 mil number: number of people that made the mistake of putting the free cd in their drive and can't get it off their comp, don't want it, don't use it, but get a bill from aohell anyhow because they made their mistake of giving their cc number when the setup asked.

http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-2097 that topic should give you all the info on tweaking tools you need, and how to set them. froim what you describe though, you are using some form of p2p software to ul stuff. that means what i described won't change much. the only solution will probably be throttling the ul more. play with the speeds and see what happens. if youre d/ling at 350kB when u/ling you're still at over 2.5 mbps though, which should be plenty fast enough...

basically the problem you are experiencing is due to the following: your dl depends in part on the source receiving confirmation that the packets it sends to you are in fact being received. due to the rather chaotic nature of routing on the web, packets do not always follow the same path from one place to the other, they will take whatever path is available at the time, or rather whatever path is assigned to them by the routers they encounter along the way. do a traceroute, this illustrates the sometimes roundabout paths taken. what happens when you are ul-ing is taking up part of your upstream. (duh) this capacity however is also needed for the comp to send acknowledgments to the servers you are dl-ing from. the drop you described means that you are basically experiencing an overuse of your upstream, meaning that some acknowledgments are being delayed, hence the source is waiting for them and not sending you any more data. one possible solution, that depends mainly on how steady your ul's run, would be to increase the number of packets the comp requests "in the blind". this means the source will send x number of packets before expecting the first acknowledgment. this will work only if the ul's you run are not constantly eating up the ul, leaving windows for short bursts of acks to make it out, keeping the dl running. if the ul's run at constant high speed, well, then you're basically sol, sorry to say. the changes would have to be made to all the comps on your net, how depends on the os used and what tweaking tools you have. good luck, i have the feeling you're gonna need it.

thought this topic was a joke thread. but seriously, aol, just like m$, is not quite as bad as its reputation. that being said, why is aol pretty well protected against malware? A: no self respecting virus/worm will propagate on its network.

easy answer. whatever console is hot and of course the good old pc. for the "simple" games the console will always have the advantage of being cheap. for those games that go a little deeper like flightsims, rts and the like, that just need a bunch of keyboard controls, high res screens and mice to be playeble, not to mention all the nice analog sticks and force feedback wheels for flightsim/driving games, the pc will always have the upper hand, the cost of all that flexibility and raw power being of course the higher price. but then, word doesn't run too well on the playstation. so there is added value to the pc. and yeah, i know, a 300 buck pc will run office just fine. so?

if you still have the dvd file problem read on, otherwise, fuggedaboudit. if you have multiple partitions, defrag one, move the dvd file to it, then defrag the partition the dvd file lives in. then move the dvd file back. moving it to a defragged partition will ensure that it stays more or less unfragged, and in any case the other files on that partition are defragged. its a workaround but it should work.