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Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 9 Feb 2006 4:42 pm

Signed up for DSL service yesterday. Got it running today. I'm in total awe.........What used to take about 30 minutes to download now takes less than a minute!

Ron Victoria · Post by **Ron Victoria** » 9 Feb 2006 5:30 pm

After waiting and waiting to send a simple email, I made the switch last year. No more frustration. I even get free McAfee. Just make sure you have a good firewall in place.

Ron

John Daugherty · Post by **John Daugherty** » 10 Feb 2006 5:57 am

Hey Les ... now you can send me all those secret steel licks you've been hiding.

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Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 10 Feb 2006 6:29 am

Hey John,

I think carrier pigeon would be sufficient for that!! The older I get the more limited my licks become.
By the way, Don Davis let me listen to your CD a couple of weeks ago, and some pretty darn good pickin'. I liked the "Strangers" one. Hammin' It Up, I think. Used to do it several years ago. Don and I also had a good arrangement of "Stealin' Corn" at one time.[This message was edited by les green on 10 February 2006 at 07:10 AM.]

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 10 Feb 2006 7:01 am

I got DSL the other day also. For my business, I need to down load highway plans off the internet and some of these files are sooooo long I would get a disconnect before they got downloaded and I would have to start over again. Sometimes it gets to be a necessity. (and unfortunately, an added expense).
Erv

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 10 Feb 2006 7:20 am

Hello Erv,
I'm still amazed at the speed. I downloaded a song off of the hawaiian site a couple of weeks ago using dial-up. It took nearly 30 minutes. When I got the DSL going I went back and downloaded the same song again. Less than 60 seconds! Also I can now listen to the steel music sites such as Bobbe Seymour's without any more dropouts.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 10 Feb 2006 7:25 am

Think of all the Sunbathing Association magazines you can download now.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 10 Feb 2006 8:39 am

Les;
I sincerely hope that you have either a hardware router/firewall between the modem and computer, or a very good software firewall on your computer! At broadband speeds a TCP borne Worm can invade an unprotected Windows computer in less than 30 seconds, from the time the modem logs onto the DSL service. If nothing else, the built-in Windows XP firewall should have been turned on until you can obtain a better hardware or software firewall.

Firewalls block unsolicited incoming traffic over the wires (basically). Many Worms and backdoors arrive "over the wires" by simply searching for any unprotected computer that is online and walking in, as it were.

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Visit my Wiztunes Steel Guitar website at: http://www.wiztunes.com/
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Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 10 Feb 2006 8:50 am

The internet is a very nasty place for those without "protection".
I think the current time to infection for an unprotected PC, with all services active, on an open network connection, is something like 17 seconds?
Congratson the DSL, I live less than a mile from the Central Office but they still don't have it here in the wilderness.[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 10 February 2006 at 08:52 AM.]

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 10 Feb 2006 11:43 am

"Wiz",
Thanks for info. Have everything going, firewall included, that I need or think I
need. I'm using the Norton firewall at present,
anything better available?

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 10 Feb 2006 1:51 pm

Les;
NPF should be fine, as long as you allow it to automatically update, or manage the popup alerts correctly. NPF is based on the Tiny Personal Firewall, which was based on the AtGuard Firewall, both of which were on my computers as far back as 1997 (AtGuard).

One thing you may not have been told is that you should keep your DSL modem on for at least ten consecutive days, initially, so it can be optimized for maximum throughout and sync rate. After the ten days you can turn it on and off at will and it will maintain a high sync rate.

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Bob "Wiz" Feinberg
Moderator of the SGF Computers Forum
Visit my Wiztunes Steel Guitar website at: http://www.wiztunes.com/
or my computer troubleshooting website: Wizcrafts Computer Services,
or my Webmaster Services webpage

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 10 Feb 2006 3:26 pm

I was not aware of the above info, on for 10 days. I've only been told to never turn it off which I haven't. I'll keep that in mind. Tnx Wiz!

erik · Post by **erik** » 10 Feb 2006 5:22 pm

Wiz, I don't mean to pick a fight with you but can you PLEASE explain the result of having all these "worms" and "backdoors" enter your computer?

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