When I have physical interactivity with a computer, I can fix far more problems that I can over the phone, or online. It is because things come to you when you are working on a computer, and you try them out. It is also because by going through the process physically, you can eliminate possible problems areas, and thus look in other areas.

WEll, my family member contacted my 2nite and said thanks, whatever I did worked because she's tried three times and every time connected right away at 53,333. Go figure.

I just smiled, shrugged my shoulders.

Well if it connected at your place at 28.8 k and at 56k at thiers it's def your line. Betcha some mad telco screwed with your line at the exchange.

I thought that it was the line! There you go, Taw. Happy now?

Stinger - See if you can get some Ginger Beer out of it. It's what I would do!

I don't fooking beleive this, my b'band went down for a bit last night so I fired me modem up for the first time in months, and guess what? wouldn't connect faster than 28.8kbps. Wtf is going on?

*Laugh* Ah, the irony! Thanks for that Taw, that was pretty good! Well, maybe you should ring your phone company and have the line checked...

as my mrs works for the phone company, there aint a great deal of point. i think it's the second line she had put on, i told them not to DACS it but they prob have, in which case i'm on the warpath, kin hate DACS.

update - they did, even though i told them not to. Fuming.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 2/23/2004 2:03:00 PM

53.33333? That is even reachable?????????????? Ithought the max was 52.0

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naw, 53.333 is the fastest you're going to get a 56K modem to connect without a series of intiation strings that would probably not be worth the hassle. I used to know a place that showed proof of a faster connect than 56K using a modem, but that was years ago. I don't doubt it can be done but the research needed is lengthy.

So as not to create another tech thread, I had, as of 2 days ago, formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows and all my other programs. Yesterday and part of today, Everytime I would try to go on-line, I kept getting the promt that a new network was found and I had to choose how to set it up, home, office ect. The thing is, I have NEVER had a network. One computer and all. I used the same settings I always use when reformating. Any Ideas as to what happened?

No one ever run into this?



Finalday

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Edited by - Finalday on 3/1/2004 3:40:36 AM

are you using XP? if so (same applies for W2K/NT4) then it sees all 'net comms/dial-ups as network connections. You also prob have your IP settings set to log on to a M'soft network; whether you need this or not is dependent on your ISPs requirements, it can cause problems, and verification can time-out, if it isn't necessary. Give yer ISP a quick tinkle and check it out.

OT(off topic) well kinda OT(on topic) it seems that you can come to TLR whenever you ahve any sorta problems.. it seriously cuts costs in all kinds of advisors, tech help, psychology just off the top.

its a great pplace to be

yea kimk, for some reason we have a pretty decent group of intellectuals here that are actually nice to people and not condencending at all when it comes to technical computer related issues.

Nice run-on sentence there.