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The Motorola SB51xx series are one of the most stable, widely-used, well-accepted cable modems on the market. They are designed to be compatable with most future systems/implimentations (upgrades, technologies, etc.). They are very good modems.

What ISPgeek states is absolutely true. If your ISP catches you tampering with your modem, they will likely not only cancel your Internet, they will likely also be sure to tell other ISPs about your activity -- so-called "black-listing" you. Altering the way your cable modem operates can affect the operation of your ISPs network equipment, such as at the CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System) or other hardware, because they are designed to communicate with your modem in a specified, controlled way. This can directly affect other subscribers on your network segment, perhaps even knocking them offline. This topic and the linked subjects are bordering on controversial, and I will be locking it pending further discussion with the mods, and removing the links from the original post.

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Is it as easy to uninstall as the XP Firewall?

I tried a couple previous releases of it, and it was alright. No flying colours. I still think Ad-aware and Ewido beat it. I wonder if Microsoft will incororate it into the full release of Vista.

Check to make sure that your user account has administrative access. This article may help with setting up remote desktop, although it is for XP Pro: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx

As do I...very cool.

Good luck. (if you have a legit copy of Windows) Try it from the windows update site. Worked perfectly for me to update to the newest release. Download, reboot, install, reboot, good to go.

Sweet! Thanks Swimmer, I'll definitely be checking this out.

Cholla, I would be deleting it too. I try to get rid of any sort of bundled software, that comes with something else that I install, as a general means of keeping my PC clean. Alexa claims to be legit, although the toolbar does a lot of stuff in the background, but the reason I would delete it is that to me it is not something that I need or would find useful.

That is a pretty sweet program, Shug.

TCP/IP is a protocol suite. It is platform-independent. I also notice a speed increase when booted into Linux. I believe it is an overall system performance boost, not just specific to networking.

It should be listed in Add/Remove Programs as "Windows Internet Explorer 7." I would install another browser, like Firefox, before you attempt to uninstall. I have never uninstalled it, myself.

I find IE7 to be quite stable. I just updated to the newest release and it is running smoothly. ISPGeek: maybe it is reacting poorly to a toolbar you have installed?

I just installed Version 7.0.5730.11 from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. I must say it has really stabilized since I first started with IE7 with Beta 2. I like the security measures, and the plugin support is great. Anybody who is addicted to tabbed browsing from FF or Opera should definitely check it out.

There is a feature in Windows Live Messenger 8 where you can request remote assistance from a buddy. I have never used it though.

Welcome leoinnj! Try the download link from this site (where it says: Click here to Download) http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

You can also use local DNS caching to bypass your ISP's DNS servers. All you need to do is make sure the DNS Client service is set to start automatically, which you can do via Services in Administrative Tools, and add the host's IP address to the HOSTS file on your machine. Don't know the IP address? Ping the site. See this guide for more details: Using the HOSTS file

MAC filter >> permit only.

That is an interesting idea. However, it would be most practical to set up a MAN (Metropolitan Area Network), but I would suppose that these areas already have high-speed data. Otherwise, when you say "id like to start a small company and provide internet in areas where it was not possible before" I can only assume that you must mean rural areas. It would be hard to make ends meet, economically, with such a low residential density in these areas, no? You would also have to calculate the effects of weather on signal strength, and space the nodes out accordingly. Also, since I believe that you mean to use the routers as a chain of nodes, you would need to consider that a break in the chain means that everybody after that point would not have an Internet connection. You would need some fault tolerance/redundancy measures to avoid outage, either when a node goes down unexpectantly, or when maintenance is required. Yes, that is one monster network segment.

Hehe, that reminds me. Name that site: "Is your monitor on?"

The topic title gave me the inspiration: I'd like to send a shout-out to my good buddy Rip Van Buren! Wherever you are, whatever you're doing...I know you'll be doin alright Hope to hear from ya soon, man!

I believe, for a cable network anyway, that most ISPs overload their hubs so that it would not be possible to get such speeds at the end user. The cables themselves may be capable of carrying the max speeds, but the processing at the servers becomes the weak link. Upgrading the speeds involves the ISP to invest in more equipment, and I hear tell that stuff doesn't go for cheap. Also, I know that some areas are not practical to run fiber. A lot of places, with weather and the elements and whatnot else, experience cable cuts. It is possible to splice copper at the cut site, but I believe that with fiber optic cable you would have to re-run the entire section from where it connects to nodes at each end.

I believe you can access the diagnostics page for the DCM315 by typing 192.168.100.1 in the address bar of your browser. Have a look for the signals that ISPgeek suggested above. <hr> Do you have a router? <hr> You can try some ICMP tests. These are done from the command prompt. To get there: -click Start -click Run -type cmd and click ok From the command prompt you can try a ping and a traceroute: Ping: -type ping -n 50 testmy.net -hit enter -copy and paste the 'Ping Statistics' section here Traceroute: -type tracert -d testmy.net -hit enter -copy and paste the entire traceroute results here To copy from the command prompt: -right-click in the command prompt window -choose mark -click and drag the cursor over an area to highlight it -hit enter to copy to system clipboard

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