Recent content by vapidtransit

System restore turned off: Did that. I'll revisit this next sunday when I check his system again.

He's off of IE but that is beside the point because I'm not asking how to deal with or remove spyware. I'm asking for a highly technical explanation of the mechanism by which these programs are able to re-install themselves after I nuke their folders and associated .dll files. Its obnoxious...

I built my own rig and I keep it clean of spyware. This is not a troubleshooting question. my dad's computer is another story. I just spent 5 hours cleaning spyware off his computer and yet there are still programs that come back after I think I've deleted their every registry key, every...

My dad's computer has some new varient of Cashback.exe (the one with the little dog icon that loads in the system tray) Spybot S&D failed to remove it, adaware failed to remove it, hijack this let me get to the registry keys but it still came back after I got rid of them. I looked up...

Performance of different brands of DOCSIS 2.0 complient modems may vary slightly but not significantly. Some modems may have better extra features such as a browser-based diagnostic screen or external standby switch... A lot depends on what firmware version your isp forces onto your modem...

Hmm, run some trace routes to the game servers you're trying to connect to and post the results here. This will tell you where your connection to the server is being blocked, and we can troubleshoot from there. To run a traceroute click "start" click "run" type "cmd" at the prompt...

Why not just get a router and connect through that? Then you could share the connection with all of your computers.

If you're using it for phone calls, why should the brand matter? Just get a cheap-o one from newegg.

Latency to the internet does not necessarily have anything to do with your bandwidth. When I was lucky back in the dial-up days I could get a steady ping around 200 ms over a 56k dial up connection. Hell, I've been having a problem in which I get ping spikes and 7% packet loss and my...

Build a faraday cage around your microwave, imo. Impractical, yes but it would probably work.

Cable modems generate heat, routers generate heat...maybe all of that heat in there is causing one or both of the devices to malfunction.

Next time the 2001FP goes on sale, I'm gonna get one. My old 17" crt is dying fast. I just can't bear to go out and get a 19"crt for all the space they take up and heat they produce. I will finance the 2001FP through DELL...i'll insist that they give me 0% interest for 6 months. I'll...

The cabling looks to be in good shape. My in-house cabling is only 2 years old...its free of kinks and sharp bends. The outside cabling runs up the side of the building (5 floors) directly from the building cable box into my jack. It looks to be in good shape. I would imagine that a...

No, its a motorola SB5100 (purchased to replace my old Toshiba) and I'm 99% sure that the flakiness is due to the high downstream signal level. It's just that the router screwyness made me think twice about that theory. The toshibas (especially the old ones) were designed to tolerate the...

Problem 1: Cable modem temporary loss of connectivity (i.e. Cable light is "on," computer has an IP addy but no pings are getting through) Power cycling the cable modem restores normal connectivity. Now...I had been having the aforementioned cable modem problem all night last night. It's a...