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| Thread ID: 42333 | 2004-02-08 04:26:00 | ISP's and connection speeds | drcspy (146) | Press F1 |
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| 213673 | 2004-02-10 04:43:00 | yeh I thought that last comment was a little off that wasn't my intention at all I just stated what I believed to be true............anyway......yep try another acount .............well I haev I have another one loaded on the puter it's a clear account and it 'always' gives a better speed......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 213674 | 2004-02-10 06:32:00 | drcspy, I just spent a frustrating month playing around with modems (6), including, Dynalink, Us Robotics, 2 or 3 types from Dick Smith and a couple of others from different suppliers. I took them all back and stuck with my old one which always connects at 49.2kb/s. I have dual boot Win98se and Win2k. I have internal and external modems, I tried all the best known brands and they were all different on the two boot o/s's and also between themselves and even the same model of one brand acted differently in two different ways when I got an identical one because I thought the first one was faulty. Remember all are using exactly the same hardware to connect to the internet and I kept going back to my two original modems (internal and external) to compare results. In the end I have decided that it is a combination of dodgey hardware on the other end, won't say anymore, so that one never knows what hardware one is connecting to and also try forcing your modems to use V.90 Drivers and not the default V.92 because even though when one standard is not available they are supposed to default to the next standard down I don't think this works very well. The modem i have the best results with is a Flex modem and not V.90 series. CU Rob. and yes I am a technician who has been repairing all manner of electronics for 40 years. Don't worry too much about criticism it is very easy to get things wrong and have someone come along and bleat, but the secret is to persevere until you get to the bottom of the problem. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 213675 | 2004-02-10 07:47:00 | cheers mate thanks | drcspy (146) | ||
| 213676 | 2004-02-10 07:54:00 | I live in Tokoroa and pay $55 a month for wireless broadband!!! Goes about 140 kilobytes (yes, 140 kilobytes) a second!!! See http://southwaikato.net.nz/ They are a bit new and a tad unreliable, but works really, really good most of the time!!! Dial-up goes about 5 kilobytes a second. Cheers forrest. |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 213677 | 2004-02-10 08:06:00 | >just think before you shoot your mouth off Ditto |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 213678 | 2004-02-10 08:34:00 | yeh well unfortunately I still need a dial up connection cause as I often am fixing peoples puters.......even some who dont have net connections lol well soemtimes i need to import a dial up connection to their puter for various reasons and tha'ts my dial up account........so wireless/broadband etc are sorta out for that reason...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 213679 | 2004-02-10 09:24:00 | drcspy I know exactly what you mean. My first ISP has been my best (always downloaded at around 5k ) until they sold out for bigger and better things (Silicon Blue). The outfit that bought it ruined it so I moved to quicksilver ( today had a connection of 4.8 that is not 48). The download speeds aren't very fast so I tried Orcon which was a better service but I could not pay them online so ditched them. I believe they now allow online payments so might try them again. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 213680 | 2004-02-10 20:35:00 | You all know what I'm going to say. I don't want to lock this thread because there is still constructive discussion going on. On the other hand, I really want any further posts to be just that, constructive. The guilty (and there's more than one) know the drill. Go outside, dip your heads in a bucket of cold water, then help an old lady across the road to do penance. Then come back and help each other out in a tree-hugging, sandal-wearing, touchy feely kind of way. Don't make me reach out of this computer screen and rap you over the knuckles with my ruler. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 213681 | 2004-02-10 21:27:00 | Congratulations guys. Reading your "correspondence" has given me the biggest laugh of the year so far! Now for something a little different but related - I have 3 PCs, all using the same phone line. One regularly (about 99% of the time) connects @ 48.2, one at 36 and the other never more than 28. Explain that one, if you can. |
karent (5222) | ||
| 213682 | 2004-02-10 21:29:00 | Maybe that last one has a 28k modem.... | metla (154) | ||
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