[crazy4laptops]

What's your opinion on windows update for xp? Is it too slow, could be better, annoying, etc?

Win update bugs me in ways that it takes 10 minutes to search for updates on a high-speed dsl connection. I've even tried a 25mb/sec fiber optic internet connection and the update search took about 6-7 minutes.


I'm miffed at vista's update b/c it only takes about 20 seconds. Why can't microsoft do something for the faithful xp users?

[lilxkid24]

I have everything on automatic updates so nothing bothers me, i have no problems with it, it dls fast too

[coastie65]

I find that a bit strange. I have a Fiber connection at 15 mbps down and 2 mbps up. It certainly doesn't take me 5 -6 mins to search for updates. It could have been that their servers were really busy at the time. coastie65

[coastie65]

Hey lil, When you are set for auto update, it messes up your system restore function or at least it did. coastie65

[Rabbit]

Call it paranoia - but Microsoft insists ln the verification process to check for software piracy. I found that periodically logging onto supportmicrosoft.com speeds up the verification process. Do your best to prevent uninstalling apps and games between Microsoft update downloads.

Rabbit

[Flashorn]

Hey crazy4laptops!!



I have my up-dates on "notify me " .

What I usually end up doing is, looking at what is

available , uncheck all of the up-dates then I take a look

at Woody@Ask Woody.com to see

what he has to say and what news he was able to gather about

the new up-dates.



Then if I feel comfortable that there are no real danger of

the up-dates messing up my PC , I go directly to

Microsoft Up-date site , where I will download and

install . The MS up-date is usually faster then the

download via your Auto-Up-Date service.





FLASHORN.

[snorg]

crazy4laptops said:

Win update bugs me in ways that it takes 10 minutes to search for updates on a high-speed dsl connection. I've even tried a 25mb/sec fiber optic internet connection and the update search took about 6-7 minutes.

Something must be haywire on your end.
I have a 28.8 dialup connection it takes windoze update an average of 3 minutes to search for updates.

[coastie65]

Hey Flashorn, All that and I make sure I have created a restore point. coastie

[coastie65]

Hey snorg, That's pretty good time for that dial up connection. coastie

[lilxkid24]

That idk i never really pay attention to system restore function much

[coastie65]

Hi lil, :^0 I believe it. :^0 coastie

[rgreen4]

15mbps? And here I sit at .75! !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[coastie65]

:D Hi rg, Yeah, the power of Fiber. My brother in Law has double that at 30 Mbps. Course he pays through the nose for that. I think it is about $130 per month. coastie

[coastie65]

Hey rg, Just ran a speed test to Atlanta from here in Richmond. 15,558 kbps down and 1,849 kbps up . This one I ran from a different site to Seattle Wa. coastie

[rgreen4]

I felt a sudden pain in my back as you inserted the knife. Don't forget that I'm limited to 200MB per 24 hours (except between 3AM and 6AM Eastern).



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[crazy4laptops]

my internet connection speed is 1.5mb/sec down 250kb/sec up (according to speedtest.net)


that is not really that true, my average internet file download speed is about 1/10 a mb a second or 256kb, average upload is 32k.

[coastie65]

I don't know what the program is with DirecTV. I had started to look into it, but FiOS became available before I did. I remember doing a download of SP2 with dial up. I was surprised I didn't get dropped before I completed it. It was either 5 or 6 hrs, which I thought was pretty good time considering the estimated download time was much greater. AsI said, my Brother -in - Law has twice the speed that I've got ( 30 mbps down 15 mbps up ). As for the 200 Mb download limit, I'm trying to think if I've ever downloaded that many files in a days time even when I've downloaded music. I remember my Grandmother's farm in North Carolina. It was relaxing, but technology ( telephone ) was slow to get there and as far as todays technology, it may never get out there. unless it suddenly becomes a big bedroom community of the Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Va. Beach. There is some indication that that may be the case. Oh, I just remembered, I had a former sister in law who lived in S. Georgia. Some place called Quitman. She was a bit strange, but then again, I think it ran in the family. coastie

[rgreen4]

Crazy - if you are on Hughesnet, and are not getting the posted speed, you need to contact their technical department. I noticed a real problem in speeds in early March and when it didn't clear up in a few weeks I contacted them. They were having a transponder problem. It took them a while, but the strange thing is before they fixed it, my signal strength was 86 but download speeds in the pits (below dial-up), after they fixed it, my signal strength was only 66, but the download speeds were up to specs.

Coastie - don't confuse Hughesnet and DirecTv. While both were owned at one time by Hughes, they were always separate. The internet service at one time was called DirectWay, but because of the name similarity, was renamed Hughesnet. I beleive DirecTv is now owned by Rupert Murdoch, but in any case they now have different owners.

To put things in perspective, the full Vista SP1 download was 435MB. With multiple machnes and wanting a copy to archive, I bypassed the upgrade notification install to download the full package and upgrade from that.

[crazy4laptops]

I'm with bellsouth

[coastie65]

Last I heard Bellsouth / AT&T are supposed to be building a Fiber Optics network. coastie