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Won't let me post, but here's my result at: speedtest.net/result/3704984256.png
This is while l was downloading a game off Steam, with a few things on the WiFi. It's around 80$/month.
This is while l was downloading a game off Steam, with a few things on the WiFi. It's around 80$/month.
I've got a new computer. When I tried speedtest.net, it asked me to download Flash, which I then did. And then when I tried speedtest.net again, it wanted me to download a different software as well. I'm beginning to think that all of Adobe and Microsoft and even Mozilla Firefox are now our big spammers. First thing I'm going to do when all of these hundreds of updates (I had 139 updates last night which meant I had to give up getting into my computer), and then when I turned my computer on this morning, had to wait another stretch of time for those updates to be configured. Heavens knows what Microsoft sins are involved among those updates (makes me feel real dumb not to be told what they are) as I think they had mostly to do with the MONSTER Microsoft Office 2013 that I installed last night, which took three hours to install on a Pentium i7 computer with 10MBps fiber optic Internet speed. And then when I checked the Internet others were similarly implicated.
I'm really very unhappy with both Dell computer, and Microsoft, whom I believe is more in charge of my computer than I am. For now any way. First thing I'm going to do once all of these updates have quietened down a little is to turn automatic updates off. I want to see from now on what updates Microsoft is choosing for me. I don't trust Microsoft at all.
Just noticed more updates waiting for me. As I guess Adobe probably wants me to log in and out for the Flash Player to be configured - maybe - more waits? Yuck!
I'm really very unhappy with both Dell computer, and Microsoft, whom I believe is more in charge of my computer than I am. For now any way. First thing I'm going to do once all of these updates have quietened down a little is to turn automatic updates off. I want to see from now on what updates Microsoft is choosing for me. I don't trust Microsoft at all.
Just noticed more updates waiting for me. As I guess Adobe probably wants me to log in and out for the Flash Player to be configured - maybe - more waits? Yuck!
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pan1 said:Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to "Beyond Believe: Fact or Fiction". This is the fastest Internet in the world. Dont feel sorry for me bro....
Join the club haha Mine is much better now, the tech guys came here to fix our signal or something and it's faster, but still slower than those living in town. The cons of living in the middle of nowhere. So I understand your pain. :sorry:
I just reformatted and reinstalled my Windows 7 laptop. It was a pain to have to reinstall everything from scratch -- but worth it as my free disk space has gone from 5% free to 50% free. But even worse than reinstalling all my software was dealing with the Windows updates. It took days to get them all done -- and you can't just say "do the updates" and have it just do them. Instead, you run Windows update, it does a bunch of updates, sometimes dozens, sometimes a handful, sometimes just 1, then tells you it's done. You run it again to see if there are any more updates; it says no. But then minutes or hours later, or the next day, it tells you there's another hundred updates to download and install! I just wish they would have come out with a service pack that amalgamated all the last several years' worth of updates. I don't think that having a faster internet connection that my 7Mb/s connection would help much as most of the time spent is the actual installation of the downloaded updates, and of course the repeated attempts to get the next set. And don't forget all the intervening re-boots that several sets of the updates require.Genesis said:
Aha Belltown. Seems as though every one is going through the same thing. At least after a while it all settles in and the updates get less and less. And then a spurt comes. I've figured out how to check through them and only select the ones I think are really necessary, although I not always know what they are about. Which are the security ones. Microsoft has also been a little more helpful in identifying those updates that are critical vs not as essential. I still don't 100% know how intrusive they are, i.e. Microsoft importing things in my computer that puts it in a position of manipulation.
