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This occasionally happens with any ISP. Its annoying but rarely fatal.


Here is the dirty little secret that ISP's dont want you to know:

Most DNS arent very concerned about who uses them. They could care less where the request comes from, their ISP or not.

You could do a google search and find ...

ok, listen real close

your nic does *NOT* have anything to do with your mac. you can take the same machine to your friend's house and use their modem and have the same mac as them. the mac is assigned to the modem on a broadband network (read whatis.com).

shutting your computer down will affect ...

There are 2 computers in my house and they share a connection. One is at 4500kbps (celeron 500mhz, windwos 2000) and the other is slower (new comp) 3800kbps (amd windows xp, amd athlon 64.) Any ideas why its slower?


Easiest answer abesnting necessary data:
Distance = speed. Period. Closer to the ...

First step in any computer troubleshooting must always be to verify physical connections. Yours are still connected, but could be going bad. Replace the cable from phone jack to modem is easiest and cheapest. Replace the cat-5 from modem to comp is next.

What type of DSL connection do you have?
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Good luck.

Its been a few years since I was in the DSL field, but at that time you couldnt use a line-conditioner or voltage protector on the phone line because of the way DSL works.

Something about the voltage protector changing the sine wave of the signal thereby canceling out the way DSL works ...

Do you really have to have a combination device? Best advice is to have separate Modem and Router. I have had DSL for over 5 years and have had to change modems twice (one upgrade, one failure) and am on my 2nd router (soon to be 3rd due to a port failure). Perhaps I got some bad equipment, but it ...

2 things nobody else mentioned:

1. Go to http://www.broadbandreports.com and run their speed test, packet loss test, but most importantly, their tweak test. This will help make sure your computer is set correctly for broadband

2. Most often overlooked item in the whole bundle! How old is the ...

Hello i have a speedtouch usb modem, the green model aka the "frog"/ "stingray". http://www.speedtouch.co.uk/usb.asp
My provider has set download speed to 6 mb now but my modem is set at a max of 4 mb.
I tried verious things but now succes.(u.k. speed driver, could not log in)
(an reg file that ...