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Norm.. YOU are the man. Your posts are fantastic; I had no idea all those tools were available for download. Thanks for this one and all the others that have helped me (and others) in the past that I haven't thanked you for!!

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Well.... Your upload speed with cable is capped a lot lower than your download. I would severly restrict the # of people you allow to upload from your machine. See if that helps!

Cheers!

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I love Winamp. It uses a lot of bandwidth, however. Just for giggles, ran speed tests, one with Winamp running streaming audio, the other without. Came back 1.5 mbps and 700 kbps respectively, so I can see where your connection may slow down depending what else you're running simultaneously.

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Check this thread for some help....

https://www.speedguide.net/forums/ ... adid=93447

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Jah... But if you're gonna file share anyway....

1) limit the # of users you allow to connect to (and upload from) you simultaneously and...

2) don't allow the prog. to start at bootup and turn it off when you don't explicitely want to share

3) check your machine for virii http://housecall ...

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Wow...sounds like prb. w/ r/f, lines outside your house (maybe) or your ISPs equipment.... Get another tech. out there ASAP!

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***All great suggestions; to these I would add:

1) try turning off any file-sharing software you may be running

2) do an online virus scan... http://housecall.antivirus.com

3) download and run the trial version of Tauscan to check for Trojans.... http://www.agnitum.com

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What's the IP addr. you pull? If it's 169.254.x.y, swap usb cord and /or ports (bad physical connection) then try unloading the driver from device manager, rebooting and reloading. If it's 192.168.100.x, call your ISP; that's the modem maintenance address which means you are able to communicate with ...

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Passwords were 6-8 characters and were totally scrambled... Give Comcast a ring & they'll reset the primary account password for you.

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I *think* the way is works is that your "authentication" is your IP addr. In other words, the SMTP server "recognizes" your ip addr. in the packets sent to it as coming from a machine within the range of IPs given out by Comcast, so it forwards your mail.

Cheers!

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Try using the combination of "mail.pa.net" for your incoming mail server and "smtp.comcast.net" for your outgoing mail server. No authentication against the SMTP server is necessary. Try it, and let me know if it works.

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Never heard anything about CC blocking Kazaa. Are you just unable to make a connection to Kazaa, but have no trouble connecting w/ other internet apps? If so, is it possible that a setting either in Kazaa or any firewall software you may have to blame? I'd definitely double-check your settings-- if ...

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Most ISPs block Netbios...Could you imagine the horror if they didn't? ("Let's see.. I'll just join "workgroup" and browse the ole nethood)

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If you keep having to reset the router every morning, give your ISP a call. Your modem may be dropping offline, which will (sometimes) make you have to reset the router.

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Check this link out for Mac/ Windows File and Print Sharing

http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html:)

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double-check that they're in same workgroup, that file & print sharing is checked in both and that everything is shared properly in both computers

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You're going to share the same amount of bandwidth w/ all 3 computers, regardless of whether you use a hub or a router. I think what he was driving at is that your connection will prob. be more stable through the hub; that you *may* have less problems maintaining a stable connection going through ...

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firewall set to block synapses?

Just kidding.. "Let he without sin, etc"

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Found this in another forum. Hope it helps to allay any fears you may have....

http://www.bitzenbytes.com/101/101.htm

go to Network, then Comcast 101

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Use your filelocker for file transfer (up to 25 megs total combined space). Instructions for this can be found here...

http://comcast.comcastonline.com/memberservices/FAQs/

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Hmmmm.......Pay your bill you must....Stealing cable you are....cable theft is the first step toward the dark side.....

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Hi Norm,

I've looked all over the place, but I can't find a site/ sites that give a very detailed account of the boot sequence for win98, winME, win2k. By detailed, I mean the files and also the registry keys that are accessed during the boot process by these OS's. Thanks for help.

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You could set up SSH server on the computer and use SFTP for remote file Xfer; with Linux, it's built in. For Windows, try these sites:

http://www.ssh.com/products/ssh/for_windows/ (for server)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (great client)

SSH is much safer than reg. ftp or ...

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Call your ISPs and report the problem...

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Oh...almost forgot....

Your laptop may not have the correct X server for that display. Did you set it up using a different display? If so, reattach display you used for setup, change startup runlevel to "3" (multiuser command prompt with networking), switch back to display you want to use, reboot ...

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Check these links out; you should be able to use smbclient (which should be included with the SAMBA package on your CD) to access disk shares & print to printer attached to server. You could even setup your Linux box as BDC for your domain.... :)

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbclient.1 ...

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check out this link to restore Regedit from spywareinfo.com..(maybe spyware has disabled Regedit)

http://www.spywareinfo.com/hijacked2.html

Good luck!

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I'm sorry if this was already included in one of the many links above, but after fdisk & format, you can boot to command prompt, with CD Rom support, from c: type "md <OS cab folder>" - i386 for win2k, win98 for windows 98 or win9x for ME; then change to cdrom drive letter and "cd" to OS cab folder ...

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You'll have to remove the .VXD in Safe Mode at the very end, which is always a treat......

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Best bet really is to use a router. Your cable modem caches the MAC addr. of the interface connected to it, so if you dont use a router, you'll be stuck having to reset the cable modem every time you want to switch from one machine to the other (because each machine's NIC has a different MAC addr ...

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If you are really cheap, like yours truly

you could pop an extra nic in one of the machines and install Analog X's proxy on it... You'd put the fahrwall on that machine too...

http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /proxy.htm

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Possible that 1) your NIC is damaged or 2) tcp/ip corrupted. What is your OS?

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1st 6 digits of MAC identify manufacturer, last 6 identify card itself; unique & can't be changed-burned into card. NAT Routers have their own unique MAC, but you can choose to have the router use the MAC addr of a NIC behind it instead of it's own. I'm curious, why would you want/ need to alter ...

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ditch ICS and go w/ AnalogX proxy

http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /proxy.htm

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actually, didn't mean c smiley face, rather c: in my last post

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Prob too late for this post, but you can create a Winders boot disk in Add/ Remove Programs (Create Startup Disk tab I think). Boot from a:, select "w/out cdrom support"; from a: type "fdisk", create your partition(s), then exit fdisk, reboot, from a: type "format c:/s", wait forever, reboot when ...

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It's just silly if you have a M$ box connected directly to the internet (esp. w/ always-on connection), not to have a firewall installed. Of course it's also silly to download and install spyware and open unsolicited or strange emails with or without attachments, but lots of people do it anyway ...

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To respond to Bertwikks original complaint: try going into msconfig & unchecking KaZaa in the list of startups and reboot. While people are connected to your computer (which they can be at any time as long as KaZaa is running) pulling files off of it, the performance of ALL your internet apps. will ...

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While trolling the M$ website, it seemed that most of the posts relating to ole32.dll errors had to do with their Office suite.....perhaps some unruly app. is acting up (other than the aforementioned trojan)

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That's using DHCP to obtain IP addr automatically, but specifying DNS...

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