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hehe, if you dont quite understand what a ping is then why are you worried
you lot should be grateful, internet speeds todoy are a million miles away from what we used to have, for those who used 9.6Kbits/sec modem we remember it taking days to download stuff and I'm not talking even megabytes of data as we didn't have disks big to store it....

and gigabyte Hertz cpus? geesh that was science fiction.....

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I got the same email Gordon, which said I would lose my connection for about 10 minutes yesterday morning, well I had problems all day yesterday with my wireless connection yesterday but could still use hard connection, the thing is I haven't run a check, but it seems a lot faster this morning

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I am on Orange via a BT line.
I do not use 'wireless' by choice - I have two ethernet cables- for my laptop and desktop. I stiil had problems.

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I would prefer to use ethernet cables too Margaret but my desk is just too far away from the phone line and its easier to use WIFI

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Ethernet cables can be bought cheap on ebay at any length - mine are 15ft - there are some longer.
Wireless conection is prone to 'piggybacking' and increases your exposure to EMF

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Cheers Margaret

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I would not say its prone to piggybacking if you set it up right

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Cough, it does help to turn off the wireless if you are using ethernet margaret doesn't it! ;-)

it does surprise me how many people use technology with absolutely no idea whatsoever of how to properly set it up or secure it. yet you cant say its not common knowledge that pc/internet security is very important

Ok I learned over many years but its almost unheard of particularly on forums like this where you do have techies willing to help that people say "actually I have no idea on how best to set this lot up properly, can someone help me? "

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I know that you made the effort to set me up wireless a while ago - I had to keep switching that box on the window sill on and off to get it to work - frankly it was a pain in the backside.

Since then I am on a newer desktop and got a back up laptop this year - both using ethernet

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BT emailed me last week saying they upgrading my line for broadband on Monday morning, I have to say my laptop speed seems much faster this morning

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What browser do you use John, it can make a big difference to the time needed to open web pages.

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Always used explorer think its explorer 8 now, its always worked for me and my speed has defo increased

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Have a read about which browser is fastest, I dont think you will find it is IE so you might benefit from trying other ones.

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Na its fast enough for me, I'm not a computer fast cat like a some of you lot:D

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So why did you start this thread?