Having to leave the forums...

[LenS]

Giz, do you have working cell service where you are?

If so, all are offering Internet access cards for $40-60/month that would give you reasonable speed.

Might be worth looking into . . . assuming that cell service exists there.

Good luck.

 

[Igiveup]

I live in nowhere and barley get cell phone service. I did get an air card for the laptop for work and it works reseanably well, much better in town where there is good service. My home computer, XP, works, not great, but works on the DSL. I think a lot is lost in the distance from town, 25 miles. I think the satelite systems might be worth a look into.

 

[handejector]

C'mon, Giz.....

I would think a man who shoots guns fired by rocks, cooks in a hole in the ground, fights b'ars bare-handed, and scares skunks off the premises could whup a little electronic thing that Al Gore invented.

I wish that Chamberlain fellow had given up......

 

[cubfarm1]

I use my cellphone,,,, Cable plugs into the phone and into usb port, 29.95 per month for as much as I want! Not as fast as a dish but much cheaper too!

 

[WC145]

I'm waaayyyy downeast and don't have cell service at my house but I get high speed internet through Great Works Internet GWI: Phone and Internet services in Maine for your home or business. on they're extended network for $40 a month

 

[PALADIN85020]

Gee, Giz - don't give up on this. We would really miss ya. Find a way!

John

 

[m1gunner]

I have been on a 14.4 connection since Jan 1. Opera makes it work.

No videos, and pics only one at a time, but it works.

See if 3G works in your area. There are real signal boosters that will create a hot spot in your house if you get a signal, but just not strong enough. Highly directionsl antennas are available as well.

As others have mentioned, Sat should work.

 

[kmyers]

Hi Gizamo. I finally took over the PC from a beautiful woman who is now sleeping. Are you using Internet Explorer? If so you may want to try either Mozilla Firefox or the Windows version of the Apple browser Safari. Firefox is faster than IE, and Safari is faster than both and it is free.I ran Safari on a Win Vista, and it should run even better on XP. Try both of those out and see if it helps.

 

[gunlovingirl]

We have voted on it, and your "request" to leave is denied.

 

[kennyb]

We have voted on it, and your "request" to leave is denied.

YEAH!what GLG said!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Giz-you leave when we tell you to leave-not a moment sooner. Try putting another Hamster on the power grid-power that sucker up a little

 

[gizamo]

Thanks all....

I'll lurk and post from work. I've got high speed access and Windows 7. My frustration with the Internet connectivity at home is only with this particular forum. Something causes it to shut down my accelerator. Other then that, I'm fine surfing the web, albeit at dial-up speed.

 

[Super Trucker]

It will work out eventually. What happens on this site is the accelerator program I use gets into some kind of conflict and shut's down. Leaving me with a 36K connection. If there are pics in thread it takes forever to load them. Very frustrating. It's the only site that this happens on. The other thing that happens here is my computer locks up. Guess it's time to get a new one and run Windows 7... I'm still on XP!...LOL!

Go into your USER CP and look under options, then "visable post elements" uncheck the box that says "show images" and that should help a little, since no more pics will try to load.
You can turn off avatars and signature lines as well.

 

[handejector]

Go into your USER CP and look under options, then "visable post elements" uncheck the box that says "show images" and that should help a little, since no more pics will try to load.
You can turn off avatars and signature lines as well.

Excellent points that I forgot.

 

[NKJ nut]

Thanks all....

I'll lurk and post from work. I've got high speed access and Windows 7. My frustration with the Internet connectivity at home is only with this particular forum. Something causes it to shut down my accelerator. Other then that, I'm fine surfing the web, albeit at dial-up speed.

That is strange. I can browse this forum faster than most, and I don;t have high speed...

 

[Nimble Jack B.]

+1

Hi Gizamo. I finally took over the PC from a beautiful woman who is now sleeping. Are you using Internet Explorer? If so you may want to try either Mozilla Firefox or the Windows version of the Apple browser Safari. Firefox is faster than IE, and Safari is faster than both and it is free.I ran Safari on a Win Vista, and it should run even better on XP. Try both of those out and see if it helps.

I run Firefox and I'll never go back to IE.

Good advice...

 

[gizamo]

Go into your USER CP and look under options, then "visable post elements" uncheck the box that says "show images" and that should help a little, since no more pics will try to load.
You can turn off avatars and signature lines as well.

Now that might just help. I'll try turning of the avatars and sig lines first...

Update
Found it here...go to User CP and look under "Settings and Options" then Hit the "Options" button then just scroll down and follow the above instructions.

 

[45Wheelgun]

Giz, what accelerator are you using? I am unclear what we could be running that would mess with it. Do you get an error message from it?

Of course we have had a pile of issues the last couple of months which could have given you the "Windows is unable to Connect", and it would have nothing to do with your dialup and everything to do with issues we were having. Hopefully those issues have been resolved. Have you received this error recently?

Turning off pictures and sigs will surely help, I can't. imagine trying to surf the web today via dialup. I have a friend who has a very old computer and a poor connection, he disables Flash and a bunch of other fancy internet plug-ins. It makes it better for him, but then he can't see half of what is presented on the web.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

 

[LenS]

Although I can't find it now, I thought I read that you had a cellular wireless card that worked with a notebook computer.

If that is the case, you can always use that same card with a desktop computer. It could be a solution if it gives you a faster speed.

If it is USB, just plug it in.

If it is a PCMCIA card, they make a PCMCIA card slot device that fits in an empty PCI card slot on your motherboard so you can insert that card from outside the case when you need it and remove it when you want to use it with your laptop.

New desktop computers with Win 7 on them can be had for as little as $400 (a decent machine, not the bottom of the line). I've bought a few HP Pavilion machines over the past 3 years and paid no more than $500 for a business grade machine.

Some places to look are tigerdirect.com, newegg.com, microcenter.com, woot.com (usually one deal/day so you just have to hit it right), Deals.Woot : One Community, Every Deal (SM) (shows multiple deals and will point to some of the other links I noted above). I've bought refurb desktop computers thru some of these and have had excellent luck (I've repaired/built computers for almost 20 years so I didn't see a downside, although both machines have been flawless).

Just some ideas to think about.

 

[mountaingun629]

I'm still running Windows 2000 Pro, and Firefox2.0, and I can tell you that an older operating system is not the problem. Firefox keeps nagging me to "update" but I haven't as I have heard of some problems with the new version. The only thing that can force me to update from W2000 is lack of compatibility with some of the newer hardware. If push comes to shove, I might have to learn Linux.

Myron