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Try updating the firmware for your router. Sometimes firmware updates will fix issues with routers. If not then I recommend Linksys routers. I have always used them and never had any issues at all!!!
LOL, hopefully everything goes well for you.
Yeah, I had to go through like five different people before I made them realize that it wasn't always messed up like this. I could almost see them shrugging their shoulders as they said everything was perfect on their end.
I actually did a complete uninstall on that Norton, and I still had the problem. Another reason I figured it had something to do with AT&T is that, aside from my laptop, the base PC is also affected. Thanks for the thoughts, and for backing up the...
Thanks. I thought the speeds were way low, and my computer is too new and not at all bogged down by junk, soI didn't imagine it could be the problem. I'll call AT&T again.
I should have paid closer attention to your points, and while I still do not rule out my above statement, I guess my question is, are you using an At&t wireless card ? If so, it is possible you might be getting static from At&t as Ken stated.
In this day and age, it is certainly not fast speeds for broadband. You did mention a keyword in your comments that always set off alarm bells for me. If you are using Nortons internet security suite 2000whatever, I would suggest you try uninstall...
Its AT&Ts fault those speeds are below average at this point in time, do you know the speeds they advertise? If not look it up and if they are considerably higher demand them to fix the problem but if they are around advertised speeds I would sugg...
I've got a 7-month-old HP laptop (Vista) registering a Download speed of 2.53 Mb/s and an Upload of 0.42 Mb/s. Is that slow? I can't play Youtube or Hulu videos all the way through (they always stop). I'm connecting wirelessly to the modem in the ...
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- What kind of geek are you?
- movie/literature/vampire/transhumanist geek
- Why do you consider yourself a geek?
- Because I'm a bit obsessed with the above subjects.
- How did you find out about our Geek community?
- I typed a computer question into Yahoo.
- What are your "geeky equipment" specs?
- A crapload of books. Seriously, I can't stop buying books.
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- An immortal.
- What makes you laugh?
- Jack Handey books, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Benny Hill, The Kids in the Hall, SNL (sometimes), The Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein, Airplane.
- What is the thing in life you treasure most?
- My family (they're in line just ahead of my books).
- What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?
- I rapturously devoured Stephenie Meyer's poorly-written/poorly-edited Twilight saga...simply because I'm so excited by the idea of "Vampire."
- What do you do to entertain yourself?
- Read, write, watch movies, play chess, daydream at work.
- Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?
- Books: Watership Down; Winesburg, Ohio; Fevre Dream; Where I'm Calling From; And Never Said a Word; The Road; Old Man's War; Now Wait for Last Year; The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; The Missing Piece; The Missing Piece Meets the Big O; Ubik; Above the River: The Complete Poems (James Wright); The World Doesn't End; Jackstraws: Poems; Selected Stories (Andre Dubus); Jude the Obscure; Close Range: Wyoming Stories; Winnie the Pooh; The Giving Tree; The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; Fell, Volume 1: Feral City; The Martian Chronicles; Plainsong; The Graveyard Book....
Movies: The Accidental Tourist; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Back to the Future; The Empire Strikes Back; Unforgiven; A History of Violence; Exotica; Fanny and Alexander; Pelle the Conqueror; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Sweet Hereafter; My Life as a Dog; Alien; Aliens; The Karate Kid; The Road Warrior; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; Fargo; The Big Sleep; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; The Naked Gun; The Dark Knight; The Lives of Others; Robocop; Blade Runner; Interview with the Vampire; Days of Heaven; The Gunfighter; Roman Holiday; Sixteen Candles; The Fly (Cronenberg's)....
Visual Artists: Robert Motherwell; Franz Kline; Clyfford Still; Andrew Wyeth, Willem de Kooning....
TV Shows: Seinfeld; Mystery Science Theater 3000; BSG; Chuck; Smallville; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Lost; True Blood; Bones; The Big Bang Theory; The Universe; NOVA ScienceNOW; Carnivale; Law & Order; Fringe; Law & Order: SVU; Forever Knight; The X-Files; Aeon Flux....
Other: Coffee and chess on winter nights; True North mixed nuts; trying to cure myself of the severe Crohn's disease I've had for thirteen years; snowstorms; studying up on Transhumanism/Singularity-related possibilities; watching Asimo do stuff....
- What's your Web site / blog address?
- http://www.teppay.blogspot.com/
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 4:50pm on August 4, 2009,
Sara Jones said…
- haha
- At 4:36pm on August 4, 2009,
Sara Jones said…
- I'm not really that cool, but Mad Max is one of my favorite movies, I watch it all the time.
- At 4:07pm on August 4, 2009,
Sara Jones said…
- You're like the only other person I've met that likes The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
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