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| 684627 | 2008-07-02 08:10:00 | Hi We have dial up via xtra. I refuse to get broadband until the pathetic broadband service in this country improves. When I fire up my computer several programmes try and dial out and I spend half the time deleting the dial up page before the computer continues to load. Also my wife has recently bought Microsoft money, this programme is trying to dial out on the second, on the half second. We want to choose when we dial out, not some software company trying to stick their nose in to our affairs. I have hunted high and low in the xtra and X P software to try and find something that I can delete or switch off to stop this annoying occurence Has anyone got any idea's ? Thanks & regards DElboy |
delboy (13920) | ||
| 684628 | 2008-07-02 08:25:00 | Any broadband service will be better than what you have now. Set your dialup in IE Tools/Internet options/Connections to never dial a connection. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 684629 | 2008-07-02 09:14:00 | IF You are in New Zealand, as most people in this forum are, then search about as you will find that you can get broadband (albeit pathetic in YOUR opinion) just as cheap as you are paying for dial up, probably cheaper. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 684630 | 2008-07-02 10:57:00 | Welcome to Pressf1 delboy, one cause I have found for multiple attempts to dialout at startup is a setting in Advanced Internet Options in the security section, called " Check for publishers certificate revocation" turn it off and see if it makes any difference. A friend of mine once counted 17 attempts to dial immediately after loading and they all stopped when I turned this setting off. HTH |
jinja_thom (4306) | ||
| 684631 | 2008-07-02 20:43:00 | Thanks all for the replies,and advice. Delboy |
delboy (13920) | ||
| 684632 | 2008-07-02 21:55:00 | If you are using dialup you should really disable all auto updates as these tend to try to do their thing at startup. These programs will still require updating so unless you can schedual it to a suitable time, you will have to do it manually. These are the disavantages of still using dialup. From memory, Money puts something in programes/startup to get online. If you don't want this happening you will have to delete the entry. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 684633 | 2008-07-02 22:15:00 | My son gets 12Mbps. Pathetic compared to the likes of Korea but he's quite happy with the speed. | pctek (84) | ||
| 684634 | 2008-07-03 02:30:00 | Friend just shifted his business 200m down the road and went from average of 12Mbps to 21Mbps in the new premises. | berryb (99) | ||
| 684635 | 2008-07-03 02:59:00 | 21Mbps :horrified We have dial up via xtra. I refuse to get broadband until the pathetic broadband service in this country im Actually makes me laugh that what he calls the pathetic broadband service is caused by guess who - the one he likes to pay his dialup money to. And more than likely has phone with them too. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 684636 | 2008-07-03 04:46:00 | would a firewall also help? In terms of blocking outbound internet requests from programs. For what its worth, my broadband internet is more akin to ethiopian rural dialup during peak usage; i can't even stream youtube videos and watch them as they are loading. This is when nothing else is using the line. After midnight it improves somewhat though. I also expect during the day it is fast too. |
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