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Connectivity issues with ME & PeoplePC Accelerated?
We recently upgraded to PeoplePC accelerated verson and keep getting all
kinds of error. We get the blue screen, get logged off the internet and other miscellanoeus errors. Is there a compatibility problem with ME and PeoplePC accelerated? |
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Connectivity issues with ME & PeoplePC Accelerated?
Oh dear - you fell for the marketing hype, did you??
note the 'UP TO' in the ads? - truth is that it's possibly SLOWER than a direct connection, and is ALMOST NEVER anywhere near 5x faster than standard dialup - and DOES have problems with almost every computer on the planet. The reason is quite simple to get the 'improved transfer speed' the content has to be compressed - which means that it has to be compressible, for one thing, and also that something has to do the compressing in advance of the send. Once your PC has received it, it then has to decompress it, and display it. - and here's where the problems start coming in, because the compression introduces errors, which are not corrected by the buggy decompression routines that the sellers use (to maximise throughput) - so odd things start happening, and eventually they overwhelm the system's ability to cope, and you get BSoD's and other nasty side-effects. The compression/decompression is optimised for newer faster machines, running XP - and they don't really give a XXXX about the older machine user - even if that's likely to be their main source of income in a couple of years time, as everyone else will be running BB machines. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "blueslady" wrote in message news We recently upgraded to PeoplePC accelerated verson and keep getting all kinds of error. We get the blue screen, get logged off the internet and other miscellanoeus errors. Is there a compatibility problem with ME and PeoplePC accelerated? |
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Connectivity issues with ME & PeoplePC Accelerated?
Thanks, Noel. I had a feeling it was going to be something like that. Do you
suggest we go back to the version prior to the "accelerated" or upgrade to XP? "Noel Paton" wrote: Oh dear - you fell for the marketing hype, did you?? note the 'UP TO' in the ads? - truth is that it's possibly SLOWER than a direct connection, and is ALMOST NEVER anywhere near 5x faster than standard dialup - and DOES have problems with almost every computer on the planet. The reason is quite simple to get the 'improved transfer speed' the content has to be compressed - which means that it has to be compressible, for one thing, and also that something has to do the compressing in advance of the send. Once your PC has received it, it then has to decompress it, and display it. - and here's where the problems start coming in, because the compression introduces errors, which are not corrected by the buggy decompression routines that the sellers use (to maximise throughput) - so odd things start happening, and eventually they overwhelm the system's ability to cope, and you get BSoD's and other nasty side-effects. The compression/decompression is optimised for newer faster machines, running XP - and they don't really give a XXXX about the older machine user - even if that's likely to be their main source of income in a couple of years time, as everyone else will be running BB machines. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "blueslady" wrote in message news We recently upgraded to PeoplePC accelerated verson and keep getting all kinds of error. We get the blue screen, get logged off the internet and other miscellanoeus errors. Is there a compatibility problem with ME and PeoplePC accelerated? |
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Connectivity issues with ME & PeoplePC Accelerated?
What you *should* do is upgrade to a standard broadband service - assuming
such is available in your area - even one limited to 256Kb/s download would be better than this rubbish. Upgrading to XP could be an expensive process - depending on the age of your hardware and software, it may be easier to get a new machine. firs thing to do is to download and run the Upgrade advisor - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/upgrade.asp and see what it has to say. I'd be inclined to tell PeoplePC to shove their 'service' completely - and get a proper ISP, and broadband service. Since I'm in the UK, I can't advise you as to where to go instead - sorry about that! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "blueslady" wrote in message ... Thanks, Noel. I had a feeling it was going to be something like that. Do you suggest we go back to the version prior to the "accelerated" or upgrade to XP? "Noel Paton" wrote: Oh dear - you fell for the marketing hype, did you?? note the 'UP TO' in the ads? - truth is that it's possibly SLOWER than a direct connection, and is ALMOST NEVER anywhere near 5x faster than standard dialup - and DOES have problems with almost every computer on the planet. The reason is quite simple to get the 'improved transfer speed' the content has to be compressed - which means that it has to be compressible, for one thing, and also that something has to do the compressing in advance of the send. Once your PC has received it, it then has to decompress it, and display it. - and here's where the problems start coming in, because the compression introduces errors, which are not corrected by the buggy decompression routines that the sellers use (to maximise throughput) - so odd things start happening, and eventually they overwhelm the system's ability to cope, and you get BSoD's and other nasty side-effects. The compression/decompression is optimised for newer faster machines, running XP - and they don't really give a XXXX about the older machine user - even if that's likely to be their main source of income in a couple of years time, as everyone else will be running BB machines. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "blueslady" wrote in message news We recently upgraded to PeoplePC accelerated verson and keep getting all kinds of error. We get the blue screen, get logged off the internet and other miscellanoeus errors. Is there a compatibility problem with ME and PeoplePC accelerated? |
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