TimPawlak

eh yeah.. but i am not a newegg supporter cause they ripped me off a few times.. sent empty box(s)

since amd bought out ati (or vice versa) i'm going with ati

yup!!!

COOL!! just wanted to make sure i didnt make a big mistake.. its a birthday present to me =) the 13th

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2476138&CatId=28 bought this... to take the place of my nvidia geforce 7300 gs...

yeah, that would be millions of dollars.. i dont think dlewis can afford that =P

yeah... heres my opinion.. vista is ok to a point... i have an ati radeon x1600 pro 512 mb video card.. pci express.. and games are laggy as hell... especially css

btw coknuck, nice tag =)

as far as i know, the node is fine =)

yours

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 13625 Kbps about 13.6 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1663 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/02/05 - 2:48pm Bottom Line:: 238X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.62 sec Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 7.311 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 181.8 % faster than the average for host (insightbb.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-PXYE3ZO0T 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) [!] cant quite max it out... :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 1369 Kbps about 1.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 167 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/02/05 - 2:50pm Bottom Line:: 24X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 6.13 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 17.905 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 130.08 % faster than the average for host (insightbb.com) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-14P89EI6W 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) [!]

yeah,, its false.. when i used speakeasy.net/speedtest on a dialup connection.. i got like 1 mbit upload

<a href="http://www.speedtest.net"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/82108078.png"></a> 10/1 :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 9573 Kbps about 9.57 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1169 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 919 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 112 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2007/02/03 - 8:20pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-OF5CU3MGY U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-4QU5RMZ1G User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!] i dont get the instant speed on tmn that i get on speedtest.net... it could be i am directly connected to chicago and i tested from chicago

yeah.. my dad bought ultimate for us... funny thing is.. it works fine.. but on both pcs.. you cant boot up without the disk.. we call microsoft, tell them about the problem, and they hang up edit- it says cant load boot manager

ROTFL

www.acronis.com is what i use..

WB?

C:Documents and SettingsTim>tracert testmy.net Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms stpservers.com [192.168.1.1] 2 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms 74-132-48-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.48.1] 3 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 74-132-0-185.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.0.185] 4 8 ms 6 ms 7 ms 74.128.8.201 5 12 ms * * so-7-1.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.71.182.25] 6 13 ms 15 ms 17 ms ae-32-56.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.190] 7 12 ms 13 ms 17 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.41] 8 50 ms 36 ms 36 ms ae-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.61] 9 57 ms 36 ms 38 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.37] 10 59 ms 53 ms 54 ms ae-2.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.132.106] 11 54 ms 51 ms 53 ms ae-14-55.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.144] 12 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms THE-PLANET.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.122.2] 13 53 ms 52 ms 51 ms te9-2.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.30] 14 52 ms 52 ms 66 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83] 15 54 ms 51 ms 52 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.6 9] 16 54 ms 54 ms 52 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete.

C:Documents and SettingsTim>tracert 4.78.214.21 Tracing route to so-3-1-0.gar2.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.78.214.21] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms stpservers.com [192.168.1.1] 2 6 ms 8 ms 5 ms 74-132-48-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.48.1] 3 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 74-132-0-185.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.0.185] 4 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms 74.128.8.201 5 47 ms 49 ms 32 ms so-3-1-0.gar2.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.78.214.21] Trace complete. better ping to chicago.. hmm

C:Documents and SettingsTim>tracert 4.71.182.25 Tracing route to so-7-1.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.71.182.25] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms stpservers.com [192.168.1.1] 2 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms 74-132-48-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.48.1] 3 7 ms 6 ms 21 ms 74-132-0-185.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.0.185] 4 8 ms 6 ms 7 ms 74.128.8.201 5 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms so-7-1.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.71.182.25]

hehe, i do a tracert from tmn and get this... 1 3.24.1343.static.theplanet.com (67.19.36.3) 0.570 ms 0.296 ms 0.252 ms 2 vl8.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com (67.18.116.82) 0.254 ms 0.344 ms 0.254 ms 3 vl42.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.85.127.89) 0.653 ms 0.635 ms 0.521 ms 4 et5-2.ibr04.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.29) 0.521 ms 11.494 ms 0.507 ms 5 te-3-1.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.71.122.1) 0.657 ms 0.660 ms 0.630 ms 6 ae-32-56.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.190) 1.406 ms ae-31-55.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.158) 1.535 ms ae-32-52.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.62) 9.271 ms 7 ae-1-100.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.132.45) 1.508 ms ae-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.105) 21.312 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.132.45) 3.661 ms 8 ae-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.105) 28.451 ms 17.039 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.38) 27.791 ms 9 ae-1-100.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net (4.69.132.38) 15.974 ms 16.250 ms 18.123 ms 10 ae-3.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.132.62) 43.497 ms ae-12-53.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.68.101.67) 40.356 ms ae-3.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.132.62) 43.780 ms 11 INSIGHT-MID.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.71.182.26) 141.724 ms ae-12-53.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.68.101.67) 40.516 ms ae-12-55.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.68.101.131) 40.386 ms 12 74.128.8.202 (74.128.8.202) 46.049 ms INSIGHT-MID.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.71.182.26) 146.189 ms 44.462 ms 13 74.128.8.202 (74.128.8.202) 45.045 ms 74-132-0-186.dhcp.insightbb.com (74.132.0.186) 45.791 ms 74.128.8.202 (74.128.8.202) 45.726 ms 14 74-132-0-186.dhcp.insightbb.com (74.132.0.186) 46.212 ms 45.938 ms 46.226 ms 15 74-132-53-58.dhcp.insightbb.com (74.132.53.58) 53.236 ms 52.651 ms 53.069 ms even from school its like 17 ms to my house.. it goes to chicago then to my connection.. when i do a tracert to tmn.. i get this.. C:Documents and SettingsTim>tracert testmy.net Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms stpservers.com [192.168.1.1] 2 6 ms 14 ms 7 ms 74-132-48-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.48.1] 3 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms 74-132-0-185.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.0.185] 4 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 74.128.8.201 5 32 ms 29 ms 32 ms so-3-1-0.gar2.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.78.214.21] 6 43 ms 50 ms 45 ms ae-32-54.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.68.103.126] 7 59 ms 54 ms 42 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.33] 8 62 ms 54 ms 51 ms ae-14-55.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.144] 9 52 ms 53 ms 52 ms ae-14-55.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.144] 10 52 ms 163 ms 63 ms THE-PLANET.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.122.2] 11 135 ms 199 ms 53 ms te9-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.14] 12 52 ms 52 ms 55 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 13 52 ms 52 ms 53 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.6 9] 14 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. and to chi.speakeasy.net i get this C:Documents and SettingsTim>tracert chi.speakeasy.net Tracing route to chi.speakeasy.net [64.81.159.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms stpservers.com [192.168.1.1] 2 8 ms 7 ms 18 ms 74-132-48-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.48.1] 3 6 ms 6 ms 9 ms 74-132-0-185.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.0.185] 4 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 74.128.8.201 5 * * * Request timed out. 6 29 ms 13 ms 16 ms unknown.Level3.net [166.90.208.206] 7 15 ms 14 ms 16 ms dns.chi1.speakeasy.net [64.81.159.2] atl.speakeasy.net i get this... C:Documents and SettingsTim>tracert atl.speakeasy.net Tracing route to atl.speakeasy.net [216.27.175.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms stpservers.com [192.168.1.1] 2 7 ms 27 ms 8 ms 74-132-48-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.48.1] 3 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 74-132-0-185.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.132.0.185] 4 8 ms 8 ms 6 ms 74.128.8.201 5 13 ms * * so-7-1.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.71.182.25] 6 13 ms 14 ms 12 ms ae-2-52.bbr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.33] 7 33 ms 48 ms 34 ms as-1-0.bbr2.Atlanta1.Level3.net [64.159.3.153] 8 33 ms 33 ms 34 ms ae-22-56.car2.Atlanta1.Level3.net [4.68.103.163] 9 34 ms 32 ms 33 ms unknown.Level3.net [63.210.88.154] 10 32 ms 31 ms 33 ms dns.atl1.speakeasy.net [216.27.175.2] make any sence?

im at school.. but check it out.. insight is now going through chicago!

http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/d_load.php?&st=st&tt=1&ta=1&top=mirror-dlewis23&out_src=20MB try that.. it seems that TMN (testmy.net) is undergoing maintence right now.. and welcome to the forums! cause i'm getting slow speeds off server 1 and 2 right now