jazzpicker

Initially when I lost my service yesterday, tech support in Tampa didn't know of the outage and scheduled a service call for my home. I had only one light blinking on my modem and from past experience knew that there was probably more than my home involved. Last night on the news, there was an article about the cable being out in the entire area and all the restaurants were having to hand process billing on valentines day (I never realized that businesses depended on cable modem). Comcast offers 2 services here 6 and 8mb service and according to comcast, mine is 6. For an additional $10/mo I can upgrade. I'm paying $92.00/mo for cable modem and basic television service. Is the upgrade worth the extra $$$? It seems that I'm paying a lot for the service.

I joined the forum yesterday and today somebody in Alabama cut Comcast's main something and all of northern Florida lost internet for for most of the day and evening. Everything seems to be up and running now. I'm using 32 bit windows but plan to upgrade later this year when Vista is released. How do I get started optimizing my system and card to get a faster connection? Sorry to be asking so many questions but this is all new to me and I really appreciate the advice.

I'm new to wireless networking and recently built an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ processor/ EPoX motherboard computer and added a linksys (WMP54GS) Wireless PCI Adapter w/ "SpeedBooster" WOW!! (detect the sarcasm?). After hooking this contraption up and trying it out on my comcast cable modem/ Linksys wireless router combo, I'm getting varied but mostly low numbers last test 39% of Comcast's average with the computer is about 7 feet from the wireless router. I called linksys support and was told that they have no drivers that are compatible with 64 bit computers. I believe the Amd Athlon functions in both 32 and 64 bit mode but am not exactly sure when it comes to networking. Does anyone know the story about 64 bit processors, wireless, and linksys? Is there another PCI card with 64 bit drivers that I should be using? Any help on this confusing matter would be appreciated.