mummer43

mummer43 depends what you want to do with the laptop, do you want to game, or do you want to run office type apps. And also what is the range that you want to spend.

I'm not a gamer.  I'll be using it for school and around the house with a wireless setup.  I will be dooing word processing, internet and maybe playing DVD's or music.  I'd be willing to spend about $1500.

I'm looking to buy a laptop and I really don't know a whole lot about them.  I am leaning toward the Dell Inspiron 6000, but I'm really not sure.  Can anyone recommend a good site where I can talk to people about laptops and get some recommendations?

Does anyone here use a laptop?  I've heard horror stories about Dell's customer support.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I have comcast...

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 4150 Kbps about 4.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 KB)

Download Speed is:: 507 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Thu Feb 10 2005 16:10:24 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 74X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.02 sec

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-H8OY6L41V

TDK I have used them and my friends swear by them.. High quality!

I just got a Lite-On SOHW-1633S DVD/RW drive.  I plan on using it in conjunction with my TV tuner card to record tv shows and then burn them to a re-writable disc to then watch on my DVD player.

Can anyone recommend a good, high quality DVD/RW disc?

Where I live it costs $45 a month if you have a cable tv subscription.  I personally think that's anit high, so I called them to cancel.  I told them I am going to DSL for $29.00 per month and they offered me their service for that price.  Obviously, I took them up on their offer. 

When I run AdAware and it gioves the the list of files or cookies or whatever, do I delete them or leave them in quarantine?

Thanks!!

p.s.  Is there a better program out there than AdAware?

i have no idea.. but that is what i got.. and it worked fine. my guess is that Lowes will have it..

It turns out that the splitter I had was a 1 gig splitter.  I called Comcast and they said it may be the signal and that they wil have to send someone out to check it.  Of course they pulled the old "they will be there between 9 and 12 or 1 and 4" bull.  I feel like I'm living a Seinfeld episode. 

High quality  you might want to try something like this.. homedepot.com and type 303166 into the seach bar..

I checked out that splitter.  Can't I get a 1 gig splitter at Radio Shack or Lowe's?

I'm going to run to Radio Shack now and see if I can get a better splitter.  If that doesn't work, should I call Comcast and see about getting a boost?

Just got back from Radio Shack.  I asked for a 1000MHz spliter and the guy gets me one.  I just looked at the box and he gave me a VHF/UHF COMBINER.  What dumbass!!!!!  Now  I have to go back to get the damn splitter.

:angry5:

So is there any way at all I can get the TV Card and the modem to work at the same time?? 

it could not even be the splitter..  It might be the fact that the line needs a booster from Comcast.. I had a tech come out to my house and install a spliter for me after they told me that mine, radioshack brand, want good enough.. they also turned up my booster..

I'm going to run to Radio Shack now and see if I can get a better splitter.  If that doesn't work, should I call Comcast and see about getting a boost?

Yesterday, I got it working great, but this morning it isn't working again.  The modem keeps resetting itself and I can't get a connection.  I called the Comcast service line and they think it could be the splitter.

Yesterday, I bought a brand new gold plated splitter and gold plated cables.  Do you guys have any suggestions about what I can do?  Right now I have the cable plugged directly into the modem and it's working fine.  The service rep said something about having at least a 1000 mhz splitter.  Does this make any sense?

you can change the number by clicking on EvID4226Patch.exe

and when you see this " Do you really want to change the limit to 10? (Yes/No/Change)" click C

now you see this

"Please enter the number of concurrent

half-open connections (10-16777214, ESC=Auto 10/50):" type 100 and click enter

now you see this

" If you continue, please press 'Abort' and 'Yes' on the popup from windows

file protection. Because we change system files, Windows tries to restore the

original one. So it's normal.

Do you really want to change the limit to 100? (Yes/No/Change)" click Y

now you see this

" Creating work-copy ... done ...

New limit set. Now calculating checksum ...

Checksum is: 0x612C8

Patch complete ...

Installing new file ... done ...

All operations successfull.

  TCPIP.SYS got changed. It's recommend to reboot NOW!

Press any key to exit ..." press a key and exit

when asked for the SP2 cd click cancel and reboot your pc

VanBuren

Thanks!

click here https://testmy.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2240.0;id=691

and download the file i attached in a previous post

VanBuren

I just installed that file and here is  my download:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 4111 Kbps about 4.1 Mbps (tested with 5983 KB)

Download Speed is:: 502 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Sat Feb 05 2005 19:15:04 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 73X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.04 sec

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-4I1UBHWTD

read on the page i linked to

the windows SP2 default setting is 10, the program patch it to 50, and you can go even higher i use 100

quote from that download page "A patching program for removing or changing the limit imposed on connection attempts in SP2. The patcher has the ability to restore tcpip.sys back to the original... Still, you might want to back up tcpip.sys, use it at your own risk. The author of this patch can be reached @ http://www.lvllord.de/"

VanBuren

How do you adjust the SP2 setting?

I just did this patch thing that is in the FAQ and it incresed my speed.  Will this hurt my computer and how can I restore the original setting?

Here is what I did:

1. What OS are you running, ex win 98, win xp, if you have XP make sure you have SP2 installed! Also download the p2p fix for SP2 here https://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

what settings did you load in Cablenut?

VanBuren

I used the cable_fast 2k setting.  Do I need to do something else?  Is this as fast as it will get?

It looks like 4MB/368KB Internet Connection.

Is that good?

Your advertised speeds.

Do you mean what my IP says I should have?  I really don't know.  I use Comcast... how can I find that out?

Ok, here's my upload test.  keep in mind that  I am running cablenut.

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 298 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)

Upload Speed is:: 36 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Sat Feb 05 2005 17:10:58 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 28.44 sec

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-T4LK1VAD7

hey mummer and welcome to the forum

i made a google search about this, you might want to check this page

http://www.cable-modems.org/q&a/index.php?one_question=698http://www.cable-modems.org/q&a/index.php?one_question=698

and this http://www.cable-modems.org/tutorial/05.htm

good luck

VanBuren

Thanks!

yeah, that's pretty good. I've only gotten to 3.4 once. I can only get between 2.9 and 3.2. 

seems you may have a 4000 down connetion? am I right? 

upload?

I'll post my upload in a minute.  What do you mean by a 4000 down connection?  I'm a total noob to this stuff.  My buddy built me this computer and I really don't know  what the complete specs are.

Whats your Cap

Welcome To The Forum

Forgive me... what's a CAP?

There may be something wrong wiht the splitter. Do you have any tweaks installed? 

Ok, I just bought a brand new gold plated splitter and to short lengths of cable with gold plated connectors.  Also, I just downloaded cablenut and it's running well.  I'm new to this and I was wondering if anyone can help me with some tweaks to increase my speed.

Here are the results of my most recent test:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Connection is:: 3448 Kbps about 3.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)

Download Speed is:: 421 KB/s

Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/

Test Time:: Sat Feb 05 2005 16:59:01 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Bottom Line:: 62X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.43 sec

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-CG7RBJ865

I recently installed an TV Tuner card and I had to use a splitter to run the cable to the card and to the modem.

My computer has slowed doen noticeably since I started using the splitter.  Is there anything I can do to get it back to normal?