Here's a few things to remember before you call people like me for support. 1. Tell us what city you are from. Starting with your street address doesn't cut it. 2. If you call me from Cicero, Indiana don't be surprised if I ask you where that is. 3. Don't try and talk "tech" and say things like "Is the Server Down?" I get this 20 times a day. We have DHCP Servers, Mail Servers, Web Servers etc etc. Don't expect us to fix your problem. 4. Buy and ethernet card. USB sucks. 5. We only support the internet. Not your fcuking aol chat rooms. 6. Learn how to troubleshoot your own problems. www.google.com is a good place to start.
3. Don't try and talk "tech" and say things like "Is the Server Down?" I get this 20 times a day. LOL thank you.
Hi, this is Bill on Passwater Lane. Listen, is the server down or something, 'cause I just got up on my new USB hub and I keep getting kicked off of AIM like every 30 seconds. Service here in Cicero sure sux, man.
Re: Re: Free Internet Tech Support sucks more... or so i've heard. -krypto (who currently only has one thing in USB, just because it can't go anywhere else.)
You could add Linksys to your resume, Eggy. They sold me a defective card (poor engineering on all of the originals I was told when I bought a replacement) and just never follow through with warranty. Crappy equipment but good techs. My battery keeps running down when I'm online and then the whole machine goes blank! It talks about going to sleep, but I never set the sleep timer! Is this due to a hidden snooze button? Help,Eggy. Help!! Raoul- Calle de Putas Viejas Dos Cabrones, NM (a suburb of Truth or Consequences, NM)
Linksys is usually pretty good. Bellkin is the one that gives the most problems. USB any version is never a good way to hook up a cable modem. Especially when you are running Windows 98 like most people are. The drivers never install right. Also, when you have your printer and your digiotal camera and all that crap plugged in it's going to slow down your internet connection. Ethernet is much more stable. Wot does this have to do with soccer? Well what are you using now to read this?
Lemme rephrase this. USB is cool for some things. Printers and that. But using it for an internet connection as opposed to a good ole CAT 5 and NIC in just not good.
But that rbings up a question from kindly old me: When e moved in here there was no alternative to dialup. As a result, we paid through the nose for an ISDN intall and equipment. Now that we can get DSL, however, my wife in particular would like to switch and get faster. HOWEVER: I hard-wired the house with Cat5. Wireless nets are too slow; even the expensive newer equipment is rated at only 54Mbps as opposed to the 100Mbps rating on my wiring. And since the ISDN regularly tests at 115 or so, I'm topped out. But depending on the DSL service we're willing to pay for we can supposedly get at least 300Mbps and as high a 700Mbps. BUT if my wiring is Cat5 and thus only rated at 100Mbps, will it be any faster? I hate ISDN because it goes down so much (and we're now running Win XP on every machine in the house so it's not us) Or am I looking at this wrong? (And goodie for me - every machine has an identical Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card)
That is what I figured you were saying. I was told (when I first got cable modem service) that they highly recommended me to get an Ethernet card installed. Maybe if you have USB 2.0, and running Windows XP, it may not be as bad to connect your cable modem to your computer that way. Or maybe my server is running slow on my computer
You sure? My USB(yeah, i know) wireless connector and router are 2.4Ghz 208.11b. (linksys) a good site to test download speed on is www.af.mil very large pictures, not recommended for dialup. there's of course the sites that'll tell you the actual speed as well.
Don't mix up your Mbs and Kbs. Your wired network runs at 100Mbs/sec or 11 or 54Mbs for wireless. 56k modems run at that 56kbs/sec and 115Kbs for ISDN. Remember the following, Kilo=thousand, Mega=million. You will not max out your 100Mbs/sec network that is wired with any commercially available internet provider. Hope this helps a bit. Also found this table which might help. Dial Up up to 56 Kilobits per second (Kbps) FCC definition of broadband 200 Kbps DSL 1 - 1.5 Megabits per seconds (Mbps) 3 miles T - 1 1.54 Mbps (call centers) CATV 1.5 Mbps Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) up to 6 Mbps, 500 ft to 5 miles T - 3 44 Mbps, connect switches to Internet backbone OC (Optical Carrier) - 3 155 Mbps backbone speed OC - 12 622 Mbps, leading edge state backbone speed OC - 192 10,000 Mbps or 10 Gigabits per second - highest speed backbone I so want a OC-192 connection.
The majority of Sprint's network doesn't run at this rate. You're going to be waiting a long time before it's even necessary to have that much bandwidth for an individual user. Longer than it took Eggy to get laid, in fact.
Seth got laid ?!?!?!?! when did that happen. Damn man why didnt you tll me I would have bought you a drink last time I saw you. Rob
I'm too stupid to post on the correct thread... Here's my important question: How do I look at porn at work w/o getting caught?