Posts by sykotic

As much as I would love to get 10MB/sec down, I cannot dream of what i could do with it. I downloaded knoppix live and it took me 4+ hours. If I had that much bandwidth I would quickly fill my drives, of course it would be stuff I didnt...

On the initial install while setting up the service account your account is programmed to receive the amount of bandwidth your paying for. You can "hack" into your modem to send back coding to tell the server to send you more...

For $200 you should be able to get a p3, 128m ram, maybe 10+gig, but dont think your gonna get anything like cdrw or wifi. You may even have to purchase a nic if your gonna be on a network. GL

Thanks Tek. I have also heard that most speed tests are totally unaccurate after 10MB range. To cable modem uncappers: I believe that if your willing to take more bandwidth than what you have agreed to pay for, your stealing and...

Last Result: Download Speed: 1254 kbps (156.8 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 319 kbps (39.9 KB/sec transfer rate) www.speakeasy.net off a 1.5 DSL line. Since I only surf the web dont file share, this connection has been great and...

The best laptop I used was an IBM. I started out on an IBM from work and it last over 2 years, Lost it during a relocation. I also purchased an IBM second hand from a local computer house. I did have a few issues with it, keys sticking,...

With anyluck you may discover that its just the boot sector is shot. Try to hook up the drive as a slave, you may need another computer. Then scandisk and see if you can recover the last sectors. You may also be able to access the data...

I remember before the time of laptops and only the perceived rich could afford a desktop at all. I also think that its the techno gap. We have new technologies emerging quicker and faster. When the first desktops (80386) came out the...

before you remove your old drive be sure to make your recovery disks from the utility on the start menu. You will need those cds and your XP disk. Plan on having to re activate xp. GL

You could use partition magic and increase the partition size, this should prevent partition full errors. GL