mudmanc4

31 , seems as if your aging slower then I whats up with this ?

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Hey Bobster, Glad you joined, take a few speed tests and post in the show off your scores section

Hahaha up Hey happy birthday dude , have a sip from me.

Well I hope I'm at least close to whats going on lol Between printers and windows wireless , this is my kryptonite I swear it, so whenever I see something that involves either , i tackle it with a lead shield in front of me inscribed "Go home Mister mxyzptlk "

Disappearing icon syndrome on the wireless side, along with your remarks of poor or unstable connection tells us you should install a different driver. There are several ways to go about this , depending on which you prefer, XP likes to control the wireless connection and does not give up easily. Say you grab the driver from the manufacturers site , which many times will comes with a GUI that allows you to control it. ( which you might think about doing ) yet windows needs to be reprimanded into submitting , and still hangs around complaining at times lol So looking at the screenshot , lets go find your driver , hold tight....... Ok have a look at these realtek driver, it's been updates recent too , sweet. Grab the proper operating systems driver !!! OR... look at these , find the proper driver >>> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/searchView.aspx?keyword=rtl8169

The times I've seen exactly what you are describing I found something hogging bandwidth. This could be anything from an incorrect loopback either terminally or via port configuration. My thought from what you say , it is internal misconfiguration. First thing i would do is check data movement on both sides. Depending on what server your running will determine how you can test. As well as what your current switch GUI version offers. While 1 Mb up is ok if this is s dedicated line such as a T1 , with 30 nodes ( I'm assuming you are saying you have roughly 30 workstations, that alone without configuring standard traffic ports such as 80 ,110 , 443 , ect either within the switch or on each workstation , will eat bandwidth like no tomorrow, just in normal activity. The later the operating system the more 'native' traffic. I would start at the beginning , by numbering via static IP as well as host each workstation, and for each application running individually specify node ports by IP and or MAC ( unless you have an application server ) At least this way you can see where the traffic is coming from. If you already have the network setup this way , then you'll be looking within your local domain server (if setup) IE:AD either bind via winbin or LDAP to restrict any unwarranted data. Would help to know what local server your running, which switch and version, as well as authentication, as above LDAP , AD ect A note , if I had rewired the place I would have used CAT6, you have a GB switch, why not use it.

Not used it in years. As other I played when it first came out, and a bit when dragon tossed out free version for advertizing. I suppose another generation before the keyboard is laid to rest. Or so.

My first thought would be to grab a known good eth cable , and run it to the nic in the machine from the router, shutting off the wireless internal card, bypassing this possible issue.

It's probably AFN,so 15 bucks ?

Yo WAG I'm going to propagate your thread around a bit, see who we can scrape up that is using iDirect same as you. I know there's a few members here that are currently deployed, we just have to get there attention Hang tight, check back often , and hell , report your usage and test results so others can compare thanks !

Two things i would look at first thing would be to trace route testmy.net , see if your going through the DC area or somewhere on the upper east coast. Since your in florida I'm wondering about the storm and possible re routing . Second i would add to the lost of system scanners 'malwarebytes' , making sure to get the older one , red , not the new blue colored program. Strange ? Yes, the company was either taken over or lost the lawsuit for copy write infringements. Now I'm not certain here but the 'blue' colored program is shareware for a cost, a few other stipulations such as timed and toss. Where the older , or red ( which is still updated and working great. I say this because malwarebytes find turds that others do not , every time.

From Ohio to the testmy.net EU server in Amsterdam NL

Funny thing is , with apple , you don't have to download your songs from us crap.

Of course I know not, but i cannot imagine the maintenance cost was anything at all figuratively speaking, the client may have had to be developed, and they could care less about allowing their employees develop a new client to work with whatever changes stanford has made with the latest changes. Since this likely brings them no ROI.

Well ain't that the chit !! Information on this would be well taken. Why on earth would they do this , i know sony thinks very highly of themselves, enough to stop people that have bought and paid for the product to be imprisoned and bound by more rules laws regulations , that chances are each one of it's users have committed a full blown felony without even touching the controller, but this is bull puckey. If the system has some sort of agreement with fate , that you must simply use he console for nothing aside whatever sony deems appropriate for life and it;'s users , it might as well be to destroy any and all public relations. Screw you sony. Last POS I buy from you.

Hi Ben, Lets try and being a bit more attention to this thread, I know there are quite a few users out there that can answer your question.

7 imo is no more then a bloated out XP with pretties. I mean what is it you can actually DO that makes it all better, where XP or any linux distro cannot? Nothing. Does your win 7 email work better ? Really? The email servers are the same with little or no difference in 20 years, internet, any system can connect to anything out there, with the proper fiddling. What is it with people and getting new this and new that , that does nothing more then remove your data to a server or all servers away from your local machine. I can understand security patches and more efficient means to Tx + Rx it, all the rest is simply eating resources for nothing. What I do see, is the further we move into 'new technology' , the less intelligent people are getting. Just click that button. Instead of actually knowing what that button does., does this make the world a better place ? I'm not seeing it.

Hi Taluts, One of the mobile internet gurus at testmt.net should be able to chime in and give you a bit of advice. Interesting your being throttled, have you checked and changed any of the available settings ?

I'm sure lots of people would be glad to hear what you think once you get everything setup.

I'll add it to the list. But at least this one will be on my own time, so no pressure. Know what it's like to spend days righting wrongs within a corporate network then have someone jump in and screw it in five minutes ? Over porn and file sharing, just silly. I've not yet had the time to block ports and restrict external access, so again tomorrow I'm at it again. First thing , change all AD passwords, start mega logging, and block block block...... did i say block applications and or anything outside of emails for starters ? Only then can I gain any headway at all.

Thats what I'm talking about right there !!!

The setups are entirely different for windows and linux. I'll do either windows server using active directory {domain controller} or linux. The linux setup is quite simple compared to windows. As well as the differences between SSH keys, static IP or DHCP. So whichever one is fine I've had to do each. The server setup (backuppc) is the same either way. You can also backup any number of servers local and or remote, as well as any combination of operating systems. Configurations for each are set within each host. So just say which setup you'll initially need it for.

Why don't you take an old machine , and I mean any old thing , P3 will do , 512 or even a little less ram will work, no need for a video card or sound or anything else for that matter. Just a basic system. You'll be running a full featured enterprise level backup server. Download ans burn to cd backuppc While formatting any disk ( I just set up a server with 380 Gb of data on a 20 gig drive, and with compression level only at 3, before pooling it took up 1.5 Gb space. You'll need to install debian, you don't have to format first, but i do DOD at least 7 swipe for this ) the latest preferred fist, no gui, setup ssh and get apache installed, as backuppc is a perl application so it uses apache / cgi . Full gui after install. If anyone is interested I can do a writeup. Just yesterday I used it to backup a windows server 2000 setup used as a domain controller , which was a little tricky, since winbind and kerberos must be used to join the domain and smb is used. I've been using backuppc for more then a year now and it is unbelievably the lifesaver and heartbeat of everything i do. At this point there is really no other means i would even attempt to use to backup anything important.

Hi lazda11, What is your current download plan from your ISP set at ? In other words do you know what speeds you should be getting ?