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I don't know if this has any bearing, but I have an 8 way splitter where 5 lines are not terminated and one line that splits two ways after that, and they had to put a signal attenuator on the end of that.

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It depends on your upload (sending) speed. If you are on 56K you are severely limited. Think of each user as a drop of water going up a straw, if you have the swizzle stick straw, only one to two at a time will be able to be drawn up. If you have a fat straw you can get that many more drops up...

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I'd delete the temporary internet files (tools > internet options > delete files)

And then go to the connections tab under internet options and configure the LAN settings to automatically configure.

Hope that helps.

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Tx is transmit. Rx is receive.

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See if you can do a clean format of your whole operating system. I usually do a full rebuild every 6 months or so. It will also be much easier to do that versus trying to fix the two winsock files, especially if you are not comfortable with the registry. Although it's pretty much just deleting two ...

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4.77 MHz 8088 (XT)
31 MB Seagate MFM drive
640KB memory
True Blue IBM Case
True Blue IBM Keyboard
CGA Adapter
5 1/4 in. 360KB dual sided, double density drive
3.5 in 720 KB drive
2400 Baud Zoom modem with MNP5 compression (upgraded from 1200)
1MB Expanded Memory Card

Running DOS v3.1 and a WWIV 3 ...

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My cable line runs from near the street, loops around the backyard and then comes into the house on the opposite side where it goes into an 8 way splitter and then is distributed throughout the house, and I had a problem with having too strong of a signal. I would highly doubt that your cable run is ...

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Or possibly OEM with only a recovery disk. Don't know if IE would or wouldn't be included on it, but I suspect not.

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By October I think the NV30 chip will be out. Or is it NV35? Whatever the next generation of N'Vidia's chips are should be out right around then. You should be able to crank everything pretty high provided you can support AGP 4X at least.

Cool shots BTW. I'm gonna dig up MS Flight Sim 2000 and see ...

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Although in some games the server limits how many updates and how much information per update is sent every second, so even if you were on the fastest pipe and computer in the world it would only send x amount of info at any given time.

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Really?

Prove it. Microsoft Corp. software is probably the most heavily pirated software ever. I just don't think they are suffering, or that you are paying more for their software than you would be under perfect non pirating circumstances. A company with 40B in cash can't be doing all that bad.

P ...

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I love buying a $50-60 dollar game and getting bored of it within a day's time. Software piracy performs a service. Some may abuse the service, but try taking back one of your games to the store. Every other item you buy you can take back if it sucks or falsely advertises itself on the box, except ...

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Do you have a TV or an unshielded monitor next to it? I have to keep the small TV I have about 3 feet away from my monitor.

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Buy a custom PC from who ever you want. Here's what I built for a friend a month ago. Not the best, definitely not the worst:

ECS K7S5A SiS735 Socket A ATX w/ Audio $54
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ 1.6GHz Socket A CPU (Retail) $139
Kingston 512MB DDR266 PC2100 CL2.5 Unbuffered DIMM $94.75
Chaintech GeForce4 ...

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Well, what's the very lowest rate you've seen? Network traffic seems to fluctuate in my experience.

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I pay $59 for 1500/300. If anything I would rather have a higher upload speed. I am using Attbi also, but wouldn't shell out another 20 bucks for the extra 1500 down. Most file leeching I do seems to go to the max of the site anyways.

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When you install it you have to run Live Update from Start>Programs>Norton>Live Update until it tells you every update has been done. In between each of these you have to reboot. I've been using it for a few months and haven't had any trouble with it, other than a few web pages that didn't like it ...

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You could have multiple machines running all of those and not have issues with bandwidth. Instant messenger doesn't really use much bandwidth to speak of unless you are sending a file.

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Well, the next time you guys want some to download a bunch of obscure Half-Life, Unreal, Quake and other maps all in one place without having to wait for an unreliable mirror, you know where to go. The same thing goes for a patch for any of those games. If you have the hot spots to download these ...

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I caved in and bought the fileplanet subscription. I remember using it all the time before it was a pay site, so I resisted for quite a while, but being able to blow past all the people waiting in sometimes 350+ user lines is great.

And as far as I can tell, you can't pull from a foreign fileplanet ...

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Which ever browser version your Windows updates or calls for is the best for you since you are running an MS O/S.

Like it or not, the person with the biggest wallet usually throws the party and gets to be the bouncer too.

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Originally posted by Indy

Not really, since I work for the cable company...

Is this some kind of proprietary information no one else knows or something? I'm not asking how to hack your network, just a general idea... i.e. is it done by monitoring speed, or checking configs, etc.

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In Win98 go into run and type winipcfg and you'll get your IP
In 2K/XP go to run and type cmd then enter to get a command prompt, then type ipconfig and it will tell you your IP address. This is what is needed to tell people where to connect to.

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Just curious, how would they block port 80 and still allow http traffic?

And how does it cost them pennies to transmit down and bucks to transmit up? All the cached pages?

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There's quite a lively debate over this at Slashdot

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Modem: Modulator/Demodulator

I suppose a modem could be anything that is able to do the above would qualify. A modem will modulate a signal or sound in order to transmit information, then the receiving modem will demodulate it to make it usable by the computer. I think humans were better modems in ...

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Believe me, uncappers are an easy mark for termination...

You've said this a few times, would you care to elaborate on it?

Curious...

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It pretty much just needs to be set to obtain an IP and DNS automatically. In the properties of your network connection, then properties of Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) those can both be set to automatic in XP. You might have to give them the MAC address of the network card, but most likely not.

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SSL is working again. Don't know how or why or if it was even that, but secure sites are fine now.

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I'm using XP w/all updates. I'm not at home so I can't quote the exact version, but I believe it's ver 6. Using AT&T cable and this just started happening one day. I used these sites in the morning, then by nightfall they didn't want to cooperated.

Thanks,

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All of a sudden it seems a few message board accounts and my hotmail account which all use SSL are causing me "page cannot be displayed" errors in explorer. From what I can tell SSL is all jacked up. My internet security settings are all at medium and in the options I have SSL enabled.

Anyone have ...

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Your welcome.

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Get a power amplifier like a Crown amp, wire your speakers so they match the ohms on the amp and then fit the wires from the speakers to a 1/4 inch plug that will go into the Crown power output. You will probably need a splitter to split the stereo signal coming out of your sound card, as I think ...

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Yeah, me too. It was just one of those odd ideas I had.

Thanks though.

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Single cable modem, with multiple IP's. I know it's a long shot, and I'm not trying to load balance, I was just asking a hypothetical question more or less to see if say IP 24.x.x.1 got a stalled page, could I get IP 24.x.x.2 to automatically request another? The redundancy would just be in ...

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Bump - bump bump bump bump ---- bump bump.

Shave and a haircut -- two bits.

If my post is unintelligible please say so.

Thanks,

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Nope banners are fine. Mostly just the pop-ups I want to avoid. I haven't actively searched for a free hosting site, but most of the ones I seem to run across have atleast one pop-up, sometimes more on each page request.

Thanks,

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Cool. If you find a decent one, post the link. I'd be interested in a free one that didn't have an enormous amount of pop-up ads.

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It's true not everyone knows how to use it, but as you probably know it's quite simple to learn. You can even send hyperlinks to enable an automatic login. It goes something like this: ftp://username:password@24.x.x.x

It will open up in explorer and look like the local file system folders. I know ...

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Why don't you just fire up an FTP server? You can swap pictures and files that way. Plus you'll eliminate some of the overhead involved in serving web pages. You can also put FTP's on just about any port you feel like, so if port 21 is blocked you can switch it to something else. Serv-U FTP Server ...

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