internet options

**BIGSTICK** · #1 11-17-2004, 02:37 PM

What internet options are available now days? I live in San Leon and it seems Roadrunner nor DSL are available there. Dial-up sux. It takes a good ten minutes to send or download a simple picture.
Thanks!!

**Bobby** · #2 11-17-2004, 04:18 PM

I have a Direcway Sat dish with two way modems complete setup for sale. You would have to get a tech to set it up for you though. Then all you would have to pay is the monthly charge. It was fast ,but my son and I do a lot of downloading and they limit you to how much you can download. Something like 150 megs in a 4 hour time period. Pm me and I will give you a price.

**speckle-catcher** · #3 11-17-2004, 05:43 PM

haha Bobby, I saw you picture in the Beach Triton after you dumped Direcway. You're famoose.

**Bobby** · #4 11-17-2004, 06:06 PM

Yea that was me. Direcway is fast but you do have a little lag time. If it wasn't for the lag time it would be faster than DSL. Still alot faster than dialup. I do like the wireless system I have now.

**bill** · #5 11-17-2004, 06:36 PM

One thing to try until you reach a provider with high speed, reduce the image size. On dial up, I can send photo's pretty quick as long as I keep them around 60k. That is good, unless you want to start printing them. You could go even less.

**BIGSTICK** · #6 11-24-2004, 12:03 PM

It's not just pictures, it's everything. It takes a good minute just to bring up this web page. Go to the garage and drink a beer and feed the dog if I want to bring up a picture or or some BS e-mail.

Bobby, I'm not familiar with directway sat dish. How does that work?

**bill** · #7 11-24-2004, 07:14 PM

Your system might be full of spyware.

Do you know your connect speed?

What OS are you using?

Do you have a firewall?

Dial-up is slow and can not reach "super" speed but you should not have to have long waits unless you are downloading large files. I know this seems like silly questions because you are seeking "high" speed connection but think of this, if you are full of spyware now, just wait until you connect at a high rate, I have seen many computer just lock up after they connect the first time.

**Bobby** · #8 11-24-2004, 09:13 PM

Bigstick I sent you a PM

**BIGSTICK** · #9 12-02-2004, 03:04 AM

Probably is full of spyware

Usually connect anywhere from 16-37k on a 56k modem

We're using Academic Planet, something my wife gets cheap since she's in education

No firewall that I know of. I haven't upgraded software in years. I guess now is a good time to get PC cillin. IS that all I will need?

Thanks for the help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by bill

Your system might be full of spyware.

Do you know your connect speed?

What OS are you using?

Do you have a firewall?

Dial-up is slow and can not reach "super" speed but you should not have to have long waits unless you are downloading large files. I know this seems like silly questions because you are seeking "high" speed connection but think of this, if you are full of spyware now, just wait until you connect at a high rate, I have seen many computer just lock up after they connect the first time.

**bill** · #10 12-02-2004, 07:49 AM

I would use:

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Use them first and try to get clean. If a trojan is detected one of them might give you some details. If you do have one, let me know and I will help remove it. Both of them are very good at detecting and removing spyware. They are not anti-virus but they can detect some trojans.

If you do not have any anti-virus, use this one AVG
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/

I would also get a firewall, try zone alarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

After all that, be sure to get the updates from M$.

Let us know if you need help, I would think if it has been years since any updates, you might have some more problems and I will be glad to help. These programs are free and the basic to get on-line safe.