ninjageek

Ok I use mediacom for internet. The speed is 8 megs down and not sure what the upload is. I use opera for a browser. Now If I use cablenut I can get my downloads from 7 to about 7.5 and does seem to help. My surfing does seem faster. But when downloading torrents with cablenut settings aplied, My surfing gets so super slow. Web pages take forever to load. I use utorrent and I have my up capped at 256. Now If I remove my cablenut settings and go back to xp pro defaults, I can download torrents and my surfing is fine Again my torrent is capped at 256. I loose some of my download speeds while testing at this site, How much, anywhere from a half meg to a full meg. I tested with the same torrent, Just lacks any common sense. Cablenut speeds me up but if I download torrent it slows me down bigtime. Use xp pro defaults speeds drop a bit but can download torrent and no affect on my surfing. Just makes no sense. Any ideas??

You could always go with a barebones. Then add the other stuff later. You can build yourself a super nice setup. Myself or someone else may give a link if you can give a bit more info, Whats the computer gonna be used for, I mean are you a gammer, or Burn tons of music? Or do you just use the computer to surf the net and thats it? You sure would learn allot. I sure did.

For whatever its worth. I would really wait for awhile (a year?) before messing with vista. Give it time to get the bugs worked out. From all the information I have see and such I may someday put it on my slave drive but will keep xp as my primary os for awhile. I just think this new release is gonna be horrid. I can forsure see lots of "how to uninstall vista and reinstall xp" questions.

I forsure agree. I refuse to get into that whole which browser is better stuff. I say try them all (they are free). Use the one that works best for you and your system and that will be the best browser. I did not start the thread to get into the silly browser war. Just thought someone may want to try something diffrent and had no idea what opera was able to do. I never did understand the browser war thing. Hey use whats best for you. Its your computer. Why would anyone care really. Just my humble oppinion.

I'm the kinda guy that loves to follow his own path. Everyone seems of late to want to use firefox for different reasons. Myself I went and found and tried Opera. Man I so love this browser. It has voice. The browser will read to you and the voice is pretty good. I really love the ad blocker. Just right click on the page and click block content and click on the content you want blocked. But the beauty of this browser is the ability to tweak it just the way you want it. I have my right click set up so I can open the current page in maxthon, can use ie and or firefox. I use yahoo bookmarks, so I open my yahoo bookmark's in a new tab when I wanna save a bookmark's or retrieve it. I can also open any search engine I want in a new tab. I also have my keyboard set up so I can do allot of surfing using the number pad and arrow keys. The forum they have is super for help. If you wanna try a new browser give it a shot. I plan on hanging around this forum. Any questions just ask I will do my best to help if ya need it. I forgot to add. Opera is now free and will stay that way. No cost what so ever.

The question is did he learn his lesson? My guess would be playing a bit to much in the file sharing dept. I can never imagine getting that much from the net. But I have been wrong before. Props to who ever takes care of this web site. I use a browser not to many others do. Opera. This site works great with my browser.