Gildo

SP2 is sweet! I love the built in Popup Blocker, and my interconnection has never been so fast! I also like that you get a prompt asking if you want to execute a file downloaded from the internet. That may help prevent some nasty executables from running all by themselves. I just downloaded last night, after a reformat and clean install of XP Pro. Today, I slipstreamed SP2 into a XP Pro installation cd. Gil

Here's my opinion of you entire situation. You say you've made thousands of tweaks? You make changes based on what tech support tells you at the time? It sounds to me like the whole system is FUBAR. I'd reformat and do a clean install of XP Pro on every pc on the network, or at a minimum, I'd reformat one of them, and take the others offline. I'd then hook up ONLY that pc with the new installation of XP PRO to the DirecWay connection and see what the performance is then. The next thing I'd do is create a Backup Image of that pc's hard drive, and then if you need to call tech support and they foul up the works again, then you go always Restore from the Backup Image. Clear as mud? Good luck, Gil My Speed, YEE HAW! :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4011 Kbps about 4 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is:: 490 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 72 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 2.09 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=0UANU1X0C

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4011 Kbps about 4 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is:: 490 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 72 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 2.09 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=0UANU1X0C

Oh yeah. I do love this site, though my post history doesn't refect it. I just like to come to test, and to read some of the good, the bad, and the ugly around here. You foks can be entertaining from time to time. Gil

BTW, very nice site that you have built here. I've been testing and lurking here for about a year and a half. I was having problems with my download speed. It had dropped to 1.9meg over the past couple of months. I called Adelphia customer service, which of course was no help. That's why I did the reformat. And just so you know, the engineer wanted to know what my connection speed was, so she sent me to a URL that has a download test, and an upload test. Guess what site it was? I was shocked to say the least. I thought that she would direct me to some obscure Adelphia site where they have an internet connection test that they run from their servers. But I was wrong. Yes, she sent me to Testmy.net. Gil

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 3948 Kbps about 3.9 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is:: 482 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 71 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 2.12 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=3YYFA7Y9X Yeah, Adelphia says that the cap is 3meg, but I consistently get 3.9+ at this site, and 3.5meg with Speakeasy in NYC. I am in KY. This is with no tweaking. This is right after the installation of the Power Link software after a reformat. Sweet!