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

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eMachines T5212.... Intel Pentium D 945 3.4Ghz..... evga 8600 GT 256 Mb PCI-E video card..... Realtec HD audio......2 Gb 533 Mhz DDR2 memory..... Lite on CD RW; DVD +R / RW DL optical drive...... Windows XP MCE 2005....... Antec Basiq 500w PSU......200 Gb PATA HDD

I think Windows Update is a great program, my only flaw with the program is that it automatically restarts after downloading the updates. Several times I have had documents, internet windows open, and other files open and walked away from my computer to get lunch or whatever and when I come back my computer has restarted. It frustrates me. That would be my thing against windows update.