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Thanks a bunch, Coknuck! I guess I just have to have things spelled out for me and they don't just come right out and say it will work on Vista because the software came out before Vista did. Roco, I only had Me on a machine for a short period of time, but I don't think there's any software that really works with it.

Does anyone know for sure if you can run Office 2003 Small Business Edition on a Vista box? Microsoft has this listed under requirements: "Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or later, or Microsoft Windows XP or later operating system" What exactly is later than Windows XP if not Vista?

Is it just me or is anyone else still experiencing slow DL speeds over the past few weeks? I have checked at other sites and my speeds seem to be correct, but not here. What gives? :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 1791 Kbps about 1.79 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 219 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 364 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 44 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2008/02/24 - 11:32pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-WPTZC1O4X U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NCH6X7O9S User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2) [!]

Thanks for the replies, guys. I couldn't find the definitive answer anywhere else. No, I'm not going to do it for security reasons. I already have that taken care of. I was just curious what would happen if the SSID wasn't broadcast.

Ok, this is probably a silly question, but if I disable SSID broadcast in my Linksys WRT54GS wireless router, will the computers I have listed in my wireless router's MAC address filter list still be able to connect to the router?

I hope it lasts. I got Comcasted in July, and the speeds were great for a little while. Then they dropped back down at the beginning of this year and Comcast says "everything is fine, have a nice day!" Oh, and I hope you never have to call their pitiful excuse for customer service. They really, really suck at trying to be helpful. I have Earthlink as my ISP and all was well when Roadrunner was here. Then Comcast took over. They connected me when I moved to my present location, but when I had problems, they informed me that they do NOT support Earthlink. Funny how they charge me every month for it, though.

Well, hell. I'm IN Houston and my speeds suck ass now compared to what they used to be when the server was in Dallas. Compare this to what's in my sig:

Testing again Edit: 17 seconds to load the page that time

Mine is WAY off with the new server Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:Documents and Settings>tracert testmy.net Tracing route to testmy.net [75.125.181.200] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 10 ms 9 ms 7 ms 73.213.192.1 3 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms ge-3-29-ur01.tidwell.tx.houston.comcast.net [68. 85.249.85] 4 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms po-13-ar01.greenspoint.tx.houston.comcast.net [6 8.85.244.157] 5 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms po-12-ar02.greenspoint.tx.houston.comcast.net [6 8.85.244.154] 6 16 ms 15 ms 13 ms pos-0-6-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68 .86.85.174] 7 35 ms 31 ms 29 ms pos-0-15-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [6 8.86.85.129] 8 78 ms 77 ms 78 ms te-0-1-0-7-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68 .86.84.125] 9 78 ms 80 ms 79 ms te-1-1-pr01.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68 .86.84.126] 10 83 ms 79 ms 84 ms 68.86.88.250 11 73 ms 71 ms 81 ms 216-54-253-2.ev1.net.demarc [216.54.253.2] 12 73 ms 71 ms 72 ms 216-54-253-2.ev1.net.demarc [216.54.253.2] 13 79 ms 72 ms 73 ms ivhou-207-218-223-126.ev1servers.net [207.218.22 3.126] 14 73 ms 72 ms 71 ms 75.125.181.200 Trace complete. C:Documents and Settings I also tested at "another" site that's usually pretty reliable and I got 5100 kbs on the DL and 357 on the UL so I don't think it's Comcast this time.

Welcome to TMN, Kangaroo!! Enjoy your stay and I hope you have fun here!!

Time test Edit: ok that one was quick like it should be. Maybe CA3LE got it fixed.

Your session timed out while posting. Please try to re-submit your message. No subject was filled in. The message body was left empty. After 300 seconds. Yes, 5 full minutes.

Test again

Test post It took roughly 15 seconds for this post to appear even though " Page created in 0.108 seconds with 23 queries. " So I think you were right about the post being there but "the problem is that the following page is taking forever to load." For me anyway.

Mine lag badly as well. Roughly 30 seconds and I have Comcast, too. edit: I posted this as a quote and it posted right away. Normal replies are dragging.

Ditto.

Elaborate, please. The more info you can provide, the more info you can get back!

It seems that there really isn't a "best" browser, per se, because "best" is always going to be a personal preference.

Me too. I posted speed test results here a couple of years ago showing roughly 500kb slower speeds with FF compared to IE6.

I have to agree with your 2nd choice, shug. Resetting the router won't help and if he's hardwired to the router getting good speeds, the modem is doing all it can do, too. I'd still look into the router settings. BTW, MJFSOL, when you updated the firmware, you were hardwired to the router weren't you?

Have you tried it with a different laptop as previously suggested? It seems like you are at the "eliminate the improbable" stage. And yes, wireless b is considered fairly old by today's standards. One other thing. Your router is wireless b, but what is the wireless card in your laptop? And can you set your router to broadcast a mixed signal? I have a Linksys router that will do mixed, B-only or G-only. Check the basic wireless settings in the router for this.

Well, of course we do. I prefer to not even regard people I don't like. Now there's a plan!!

That's why I enjoy this forum so much. The vast majority of people are here to help and they do so by offering their knowledge in an educating, not condescending, way. Oh, sure, there are a couple smartasses <cough> shug & dlewis <cough> but even they help others. jk, guys

That's what I was saying here: People always fear what they don't understand.

I read that story too. I'm not buying her claim of not being a violent person. I mean, how do you accidentally rip off a man's left nut with your bare hands and then try to swallow it?