thanks all ;-)

here we go again. 3 dropped connections in 30 minutes. Grrr. Going to try another isp instead of plus.com

Snip, if you are getting dropped connections it is very unlikely to be anything to do with the ISP. It is very probably that the line to the BT exchange has errors on it. That could be because of your house wiring (disconnect all phones, plug computer into main socket to check), because the exchange has just been upgraded to 2Mb/s and your line cannot quite cope with it, or because of a fault at the exchange. Changing ISP will not help you.

oh thanks kayak

Broadband speed ?
I am with Blueyonder and have just been notified that they have uped the speed to 4MB.. Just done the test from ADSL Guide and got the following results for actual speed.
Desktop (conected direct to cable usb modem) "Downstream 3835Kbps(479.4KB/sec and Upstream 362 / 45.3" . My laptop which is wireless gave very similar results, only about 100 different. The bit that is really confussing me is that if I hover over the connection icon bottom right of task bar it says " broadband conected at 12.0Mbps" . this has never changed from when it was originally installed a couple of years ago at 512 speed.
Are these results in line with what I should expect for a 4MB connection.(It costs me 25 a month with no limits)
Graeme.

3835 is pretty good Graeme. As the speed gets higher you won't always reach full specified speed. Your connection says 12Mbps very likely because it's the speed of an Ethernet mini-network running between your computer and the modem.

Kayak.
Thank you.
I thought in the past that I would have to replace the modem or something to get the benifit of faster speeds. Graeme.

Anyone Know how I can delete all my Favourites in one go rather than the tedium of one at a time.
Im using XP Pro

My computer - C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator (or a named user)

You should see a folder in the shape of a star. Highlight it and delete it.

Saying its a Windows system folder and wont let me delete it


Edit:Opened Star to show contents then deleted the Favs.Cheers from a Lazy sod :-D

Sorry, you'll probably have to go into the folder in that case, highlight all the items that you want to delete (either drag over them or hold the Ctrl key while you click them individually) and then delete the items.

edit: Looks like you sussed that out yourself anyway

I had a horrible day of disconnections again. I even ordered a new modem and connected direct to the master socket etc. Then suddenly I find I`m online for 41 minutes so far. I just found out that there was a bt wholesale outage which is now resolved. Does anyone know if an outage can cause disconnections?

Snip, your symptoms sound as though your line is not capable of holding sync on ADSL reliably , its probably out of spec for 2MB. A better router MAY help but I think you may need to downgrade to 512k if the new one you have ordered is a similar spec to your existing one I would suggest that your wasting money, even if its a high spec one (like Draytek) then you may still be wasting your money ;-(

BT wholesale outage can cause disconnections but unlikely to be like the ones your getting, you would probably just lose the link for a while and then it would come back.

Just bought a 512 mb sd card and want to copy a programme to it from cd called TomTom 5 from it,it sees the programme on cd but when i go to transfer it to sd card it comes up with the message (Unable to create folder New Folder,The media is write protected ) what does this meen and how do we get around it ???? Im running win xp home and on the side of the sd card there is a lock switch which you slide to lock the disc i guess and yes have tried sliding it both ways and tried again to copy it !!!

Any ideas please !!!!

TIA

Rick...

snip, thanks for the hug! I have the same experience as you with intermittent outages and I'm damn sure the prob is with BT and the upgrade to 2mb. Some days it's fine and others I struggle to get a solid line until about 11am, suggesting they are working in the exchange. Of course they deny it. But I don't think the answer lies in anything we can do. (Though that little software patch did help!)

How do I connect 1 pc with windows xp to a pc with windows 98se on it, my network card worked great until i put xp on ;-(

Richgit69,
There should be no problem connecting to 98se.
You need to check the usual, (firewall, cross over cable if peer-peer, common protocols, share restrictions)

skg

skg83239, thanks ;-)

I dont know how I did it but got 75% of it working ;-) I can see both PC's and transfer from XP to 98se no problems, however I want to transfer files from 98se to XP, and keep getting access denied ;-( anythoughts

update:
forget to set access change files on xp pc ;-)

Rick, re SD card, for the cards with write protect switches what you have done should work. Does the card have anything else on it? could it be that it does not have enough empty space? sometimes the error messages are wrong !

snip and others with similar ADLS problems at 2MB, I know its not what you want to hear but people here have given you very good advice (some of them, not me! even know what they are talking about !!!), if your line is out of spec and cant reliably hold sync you will get exactly the symptoms you describe. You may need to downgrade to get a reliable connection.

Tim,this was a brand new card,found out if i cleaned the contacts it was able to read and write information on to it,but i understand that not all cards are accepted by some bits of kit !!!!

Object of the excercise was to install TomTom 5 on my SatNav instead of Destinator !!!
have returned the card and have a Kingston one in exchange :-) will try again tomorrow.

Rick...