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blimey, i haven't been on dial-up since 2000 and what a shock!

People moan when others have a *slightly* faster downstream than themselves on a broadband connection and Boyce is on dial up for a week ops

I always took my 1MB line for granted, infact hard done by! The reason being, my ISP would give you the fasted downstream your line *could handle* (max 8Mb) although upstream peaked at 512kbps.

Now i am connecting at a measley 49.4 kbps.
Can't wait for the xDSL to be enabled; (should be by this time next week) current line test gives estimate of 5.4 down 448 up

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Si

 

I know how you feel Boyce, when I moved to Australia in 2001, there was no BB available where I lived apart from ridiculously expensive satellite. Hence I had to study my entire 7 exam MCSE and start running my own IT business on dial up and only 28K at that. Not very easy to download service packs or critical updates I can tell you

 

Bro, i feel for ya! condolences to all concerned...

 

There are three wireless networks within range, all WPA <cough>
While on the subject of wireless networks, i listened to a security now podcast (www.grc.com/securitynow everyone is great ). Steve Gibson comments how weak the SSID and MAC filtering features are. He also comments that wired ethernet isn't really secure.

Si