tommie gorman

Yeah, I miss going there as a kid. It was great. But it has gotten quite busy since back then, of course. Had many a good vacation there. Thanks. You might want to post that in the gaming section. It might get a better response there.

I have no idea. I just know it needs to be there. Anything I might buy like that would get returned if it were me. It was assembled improperly. And who wants to get it running only to have to shut it down later only to have to reset anything, when it should be right before starting it up in the first place. Just my thoughts.

Welcome to the forum golferguy Sounds horrible. Can your return it for one with the reset button in the proper placement? I would.

Welcome to the forum retiredat44 What are your advertised speeds supposed to be? Have you read this? http://www.testmy.net/t-4257

I think the 64 bit is only for full blown Vista. I think all the other versions will operate OK. At least Microsoft said mine was cool.

Lake of the Ozarks. How close are you to Edwards MO simpleman ? My grandad had a cabin in Pine Cove near there.

The thing is David18 one of those other ISP's might provide you better speeds than what you have. What is your Zip code?

Try searching here. http://high-speed-dialup.theispguide.com/ Here are a couple of good ones. People PC http://www.peoplepc.com/connect/index.asp NetZero http://www.netzero.net/ Let me know if any of that looks good to you.

Have you defragged and done diskcleanup after doing these. Have you rebooted ( I would assume you would have had to by now.) Try running a registry cleaner in it. http://ccleaner.com/ Also run the "Issues" afterwards. You changed a lot of stuff there.

Are they your only possible dial-up provider? Have you tried other providers?

SO I guess you have already checked out the HP Pavilion Desktop PC (A1720N)

Thank you all, from a worn out sat user.

OK, that all looks real good. I will call them in a bit. Very interesting solution for me maybe. (now how many times have I said that already.)

OK, better pings. I already own my equipment now. And no weather problems. What about slowdowns during the day? Did it require a contract? How is the support with it? I am really interested. (I think)

I just reupped my contract and got a new phone with them. So it would have to be with Verizon. Which is ok, I like them so far. What is the U/L like??

So I could possibly do this also then. I will have to check with verizon.

Oh, we were just joking really ninjageek. And you are totally right. Each to their own.

Norton is a huge resource hog. I use AVG free, it is great. And Norton killed one and almost 2 of my computers. It let stuff by it which shut it down on me. Try testing without it in between, hooked directly to the modem. So google them to see if you think they are necessary. As I stated unless you use them everyday, they are not necessary at start up. Like quicktime player, it is the worst for me. It slows things down a bunch. So I only want it to come on whenever I use it only. Otherwise it only sleeps. These will make a big difference in your speeds.

Welcome to the forum simpleman So you hook it to your phone or something? And then USB it to your computer? Is that like using a hotspot or something? Just curious. Oops, forgot the pic.

What, no foul on Ryan? He started it and claimed no war in the first place. Now who is foul here His fine ought to be a bit higher.

Welcome to the forum twigz Who is your Anti virus? What is running in your background? Click keys Ctrl+Alt+Delete What is running under your applications tab? Are you using a messenger? (msn, yahoo) Are you behind a router? Did you scan in safe mode? Start*Run*type msconfig then click enter key*start up tab* and all that is running on mine is 1 anti spyware and 1 anti virus, and my printer. The rest is on prompt only. I don't let them run slowing me down. Then reboot. Also faster startup and shutdown. If not sure google them.

Awwwwwwwwwww, you guys always kill it before it gets started. IE6 *as he ducks and dodges bullets*

Welcome to the forum elijahpaul I kinda like that one. Two disciples in one name.

Thank you very much for that Dlewis.

Well you definately are running pretty fast there Tim.