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MCI WorldCom Limited
Reading International Business Park
Basingstoke Road
Reading, Berkshire rg2 6da
UK

Domain Name: PIPEX.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
MCI dns-team@uk.uu.net
Reading International Business Park
Basingstoke Road
Reading, Berkshire rg2 6da
UK
01189055000 fax: 01189055711

Record expires on 04-Jun-2006.
Record created on 05-Jun-1994.
Database last updated on 16-Apr-2006 20:10:41 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS0-P.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.129.80
NS1-P.DNS.PIPEX.NET 158.43.193.80

Scussy,

Many thanks.

I found another site, but only received this as a reply.


IP Address Trace

Enter an ip address and hit submit to perform an ip address trace.


62.190.233.86 traced to: usercb086.dsl.pipex.com






Convert Base-10 to IP

TraceRoute to 62.190.233.86 [usercb086.dsl.pipex.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 0 0 66.98.244.1 gphou-66-98-244-1.ev1.net
2 2 0 0 66.98.241.16 gphou-66-98-241-16.ev1.net
3 0 0 0 66.98.240.14 gphou-66-98-240-14.ev1.net
4 1 1 1 129.250.11.141 ge-1-3-0.r02.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net
5 7 8 8 129.250.2.50 p16-0-1-3.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.verio.net
6 9 9 9 129.250.3.21 p16-0-0-0.r00.dllstx09.us.bb.verio.net
7 10 10 10 204.255.169.21 0.so-0-0-1.br6.dfw9.alter.net
8 10 10 10 152.63.103.77 0.so-3-3-0.xt2.dfw9.alter.net
9 11 11 11 152.63.2.181 0.so-0-0-0.tl2.dfw9.alter.net
10 36 36 36 152.63.9.221 0.so-7-0-0.il2.dca6.alter.net
11 36 36 36 146.188.13.46 so-1-0-0.ir2.dca4.alter.net
12 127 127 127 146.188.8.174 so-5-0-0.tr2.lnd9.alter.net
13 110 110 110 146.188.15.42 so-6-0-0.xr1.lnd9.alter.net
14 110 110 110 158.43.150.158 pos1-0.gw2.lnd9.alter.net
15 111 110 110 146.188.56.102 pipex-gw4.customer.alter.net
16 110 110 110 62.241.161.97 ge-0-0-2.cr1.gs1.systems.pipex.net
17 110 110 110 62.241.161.93 gigabit5-0.ar1.gs1.systems.pipex.net
18 330 245 251 62.190.233.86 usercb086.dsl.pipex.com

Trace complete



I would really like to know which town/city this is coming from.

as above Reading, UU.NET

Here's one for the conspiracy theorists.

Occasionally, I look to see who has poked at my router. Mostly it's anonymous ISP users with little chance of ever finding the prober.

However, over the last few days, my router has been repelling probes on various ports from 34.168.1.34.

This is in the IP netblock owned by none less than the mighty Halliburton company of Houston, TX (Prop: Dick Cheney).

Now, why would they poke at me -- unless, of course, it's customer service because they know I own one of their fine aircraft aluminium attache cases ;-)

My pc has just been 'cleaned' to get rid of Spyware. I omitted to ask them to save program Freehand10, I have a document produced in Freehand10 that I need to open and print today if poss, any ideas please? Regards, John.

Which program did you use for the spyware clean?

For instance, I use Ad-Aware SE. It's Help section says,

Quarantine files are used to isolate and backup items detected during a scan and gives you the option to reinstall them at a later time.

Items moved to the quarantine folder will be encrypted and compressed, and can only be read and restored using the built in quarantine manager in Ad-Aware SE.

Restore quarantined objects
1. Open the quarantine list by clicking on the quarantine button or the "Open quarantine list" link on the Status screen
2. Select the quarantine file you want to restore
3. Right click and select "Restore selected" in the context menu or use the "Restore" button

john1943- Why not go to the Macromedia site and download a copy (to evaluate)

I don't know Doc, the computer place I bought from did it for me. I was so busy the day I took it in I did not have time to think exactly what I needed to save.
I'm hopeless with any technical stuff. I can get hold of a Freehand 10 program disc, but not for a couple of days, I really needed to be able to open document today.
Thanks for replying, John.

Ask them what they used. Then come back on here with the info'.

I am unable to do a "System Restore". Windows XP for home.
I've had a minor problem over the last few days - nothing urgent but when I open mail In BT/Yahoo it gives an error (url not found) but when I click on "in box" everything is fine. It began to get on my nerves and I decided to try a System Restore to about a week ago.
I went to Start and then Help & Support and did it from there. I've tried it twice now for different restore dates but it goes through all the motions and when it restarts my pc I get a cannot restore message and nothing has been changed. I find this a bit worrying in case I get a major problem sometime and if I really NEED to restore I'm afraid I could be ****ed!

There's some good stuff on re-enabling or troubleshooting System Restore

HERE

Thanks Doc. That's given me something to get my teeth into.

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A chum of mine is using a telephone handset through his USB connection to talk with Skype.

Is there any way he can turn off the internal loudspeaker in his laptop?

He can turn it off by plugging something into his audio socket, but that then kills the sound on the USB!

TP

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The Publisher,had the same problem,this reply sorted mine out.

When Skype is installed, It changes the Windows default device. To Correct this -

Go;- , ,

Click the Tab at the top

In the "Sound Playback" section the Default device should be the name of the PC's Sound Card, Not the USB Device/Phone



Then;

Open Up the Skype Panel.

Go; , ,

Audio in, Audio Out and Ringing should be the USB Device

Ring the PC Speaker should be ticked.



I hope this helps


Mega...

Thanks MB,

I'll pass this on to my chum tomorrow.

I've just remembered that he is actually using
http://www.sparvoip.de/de/index.html

But your message should give him a lead.

I gather that the advantage of his Spar system is that a lot of the landline calls are free.

TP

I have BT/Yahoo 2meg option and upgrading to their 8meg. They say that a wireless router can improve speed when compared to my existing modem. Is this correct?

A router can improve speed with respect to a USB modem (partly because a lot of the processing for a USB modem is done on the host computer and partly because USB1.1 has a bandwidth limit), but it doesn't have to be wireless. In fact a wireless connection may well get in the way of throughput. However there is little difference in price now and so it may well be worth getting a wireless router even if you don't plan to use the wireless capability for a while.

Kayak

Many thanks