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Turns out the signal was +12 DB/MV. Now it's around 0. A noticeable bit snappier. But, the plot thickens. Astound is testing VIOP, and, they are upgrading their system. They are doing it by dumping a bunch of customers on one node, while they upgrade the other nods, hence the extreme...

Hi Mercutio The cable now goes from a box they had outside, through my wall, straight to my modem. The bad wiring is pretty much gone, or, should be, unless they put their box on the end of comcasts old line... Your situation sounds like a typical cable nightmare. Where is Jim Carrey when you...

Sometimes the conspiracy theorist gets carried away. What if, on this new install, they just crank the line ability way down, to sell you the 10 mb/sec package? I just ran three tests, highest 1400k, lowest 965. Average is 3.7 mb/ sec, my isp average 5.1 mb/sec.

Anyone heard about Astound doing VOip?

Somehow not all that funny....;-)

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How much is that little toy, and, where did you get it?

They've been trying to sell me 10 mb/sec, so, that suggests that the limitation is on the modem, not the line... That would probably ensure not at least going slower then my ADSL. David, I'd been thinking about going with Vonnage, but, with 700k speeds at the peak times my girlfriend likes to...

Yes, I think you are right. Just got done reading about an ATT banning for life a kid who did this. I'll call the guy tonight, and see what he says. Wonder if it's actually a governor on the modem creating the speed limit???

Ok. This deserves a bit of writing. We've had three guys come out. First two are basic setup guys. The guy today knows a bit more, but, he's a MAC guy!;-( ;-) Anyway, over a number of cups of coffee, I sort of found out the history of cable in this area. Early this morning I had called ATT...

"What is the quickest way to get the dialog window open to give a machine a static IP address? If a quick way exists I haven't found it. In fact, the new way is so unintuitive I keep forgetting how to get in there." EXACTLY! That's what I was trying to do, actually turned out I was deleting...

I recently worked on Vista, and, I couldn't help but think Vista=OS X.-10. It seemed to combine the worst features of OS X, the slowness, weird controls, etc. with the worst of windows. Haven't worked with it much, but, I really don't even want to consider it...

Well, it's monday night, and, I'm between 700k and 3 mb/sec, with more of them below 1.5 mb/sec. Ping time has gone up to almost 70, and, my ADSL has never tested below 1.2 mb/sec, regardless of when I tested it. I could still cancel the service. When it's working at 5 mb/sec, it's nice, but...

While much faster, most of the time, I'm getting timed out messages I didn't before. Is there a setting on my machine that could be causing that, or on the router?

How can you tell what the machines consumption is? Are you using a monitor?

Hi I'm giving cable a try, and, we are at about 3-5 mb/sec, with a 40ms ping time. ADSL was 1.2 mb/sec, don't remember the ping time. So, questions are: Why would the cable sometimes have a bit of a lag in getting to certain sites? Why does Astound charge. 4.75 for a late fee, when that's...

I think Mercutio has hit the nail on the head. In silicon Valley alone, responsible for at one time the 6th largest economy in the world, or so Kali used to be rated, you have some very rich, very much irrational people who can afford the endless new toys their apple stuff is...

I just hit the send button, and, the message above was sent, but, the connection timed out. I tried to send it again, and, I got the duplicate post message, wait 5 minutes.

You REALLY want to figure out how Sheiks, Sony, and other ultra rich folks want to manipulate the market? It's simple. They buy huge, run the price up on anything they think maybe something they can manipulate, run up it's value, dump their stocks at the top, drive the price down by their...

Udaman: Your posts, and attacks on long time friends here are getting REALLY annoying. Merc hates Sony. They've earned it. I despise Apple, and, they likewise have earned it. The folks here have been together a long time, nearly ten years, and, we do take it personally when you attack one of...

cost me 100 grand, betting on MSFT, and, stuff that should have been very safe...I paid for my position...

I've noticed that Blu-ray isn't exactly flying. Prices for players are still 4-6 times a DVD player. Do you think Sony will kill it by charging too much for royalties?

You are truly foolish if you think any of the stuff you posted has ANYTHING to do with stock prices. If you decide you want to gamble, and play on the shoe strings of ultra-rich folks that play games, and manipulate by buying and dumping stocks, feel free to loose as much money as you want...

HMMM. If I went with the 6mb/sec connection over the 1.5 mb/sec, would that be enough to not have to worry about interrupts with Vonnage? Thanks Greg

David: I'm looking at Vonage. What router are you using? How do you have yours setup? Thanks GS

Yes. They have an email program for graduates that gives you an email address: '....@post.harvard.edu I thought it might be a department, since they also have addresses like @law.harvard.edu Thanks Figured it out...

Hi I'm wondering how one gets an email address: Z.....@post.harvard.edu Seems strange that a person in LA would still have a Harvard email address. Is this some sort of scam?

161 KB/sec, on a 1.2 mb/sec connection...

Keep in mind, if you load the 2008 on a disk with Linux, the disk defragger will totally screw your entire disk, and, you get to start over. Does something to grub...

It took a lot longer, but, my 21" Hitachi just died, and, I'm pretty sure it was from being so close to the other monitor. There is a warning, and, I ignored it...I WAS WRONG!

If anybody wants it, I've got one of the Matrox cables, but, IIRC, it's DVI to dual analog, and that was part of this article, as well. The Matrox 750 and 650, with a 100 dollar software upgrade, and that cable, would support 3 screens. Didn't work real well, since putting monitors side by...

What makes public education is those kids that make it through, and, that you work with and help. At a high school, Mt. Diablo, I was a sub, long term. I wanted to get the kids in the gym to play basketball, and, the AD, the principal, the basketball coach, thought I was subverting the youth...

We have one talented, gorgeous, and no makeup long ball softball player that's going on a full ride. Wonderful sweet girl. Brick house. Another that I was thinking of when I wrote this is just gorgeous, unique, and wants to be an actress. She has a very unique face, Sofia, but bigger body...

I should be more of a low life. Some of the girls I taught were Playboy material, and it made the low pay worth it.

More then props. Making it through parenting, keeping yourself going, getting into a 4 year school, and, I suspect that the students Merc has have to deal with similar issues to the kids I deal with, well, it's bloody AMAZING that they could get through.

Tea, been hitting the rum again.???

Thanks Sam. Just got the DVD Ultra software for 17 dollars. One step at a time...

Hi I'm wondering what sort of system people with their own businesses use for tax organization? What software, etc.? Thanks G Santilli

Well, I have with HD TV. It plays perfectly on the Samsung screen, with beautiful color, and uses 20-30% of the cpu power avaliable. I was also wondering if you knew of some other way of having the gpu take part of the processing load, other then the above codecs...and, what exactly it is, so I...

OK: From ATI white paper: "The Radeon X1000 family is also ready for upcoming video formats and display formats. In particular, it is the first product line capable of accelerating encoding, decoding, and playback of H.264 and VC-1 codecs, which will form the basis of the next-generation Blu-Ray...

Why am I out of luck?

That would be nice, but, so far, no one's setup a faster AGP card, that has consistent drivers. HIS and a few others are adapting faster gpus, but, seem to not have software that uses the features the gpus are capable of. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161226 HIS...

The ATI 1650 will run Ultra High settings in Quake 4, with anti-aliasing off, provided I turn off the second monitor. Doesn't seem to like the second monitor being on, period...

HMMM. David, I may need help moving. Are you around;-) ? I just enabled the DVD and HD in blockbuster. Of the 334 movies in my queue, 2 were avaliable in HD, 1 in Blu Ray. Still didn't get an answer from the girl about the TV. Appears she only works a couple days while going to school...

I stand corrected. It's a PS3, and they are around for about 400 bucks, for the cheap one. That's out. Looks like the DVD's from the video store are getting to be a bit more, Merc. About 400-500, from my quick glance. I've got the 3 ship at a time, 3 free movies on return at the video store...

Bozo: How does it look, and how did you move it???

Hi I'm wondering if anyone has tried the new Blu Ray players/burners, and, what their experience has been? Which version of PowerDVD, and if burning, which version of Nero, and, how well does it work? Newegg has this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106259 which...

The girl is attractive, young, and, I don't know how much she knows about electronics. She said, "Like 38" so who knows? However, thanks to everyones help, I now know it's more curiosity value as anything else as to what exactly the thing is. As soon as I get a better idea of what it is, you...

Not quite yet. I'm not paying 129 dollars for a BluRay burner. I'm waiting until they are around 50 before I even consider it, and, until the video stores actually have more then one row of 20 with Blue Ray disks. Or, my online program offers Blue Ray disks. That's one area. You are correct...

Thanks David. I'm more curious then anything else, both about the TV and the girl. Bikini shot would be fun... I'm old enough to not have to chase everything, but, she's nice, and fun to talk to. "Find someone better than the Blockbuster grrrrl." Rarely do I find something really uncalled...