Thanks J. I did think of this idea. Yes, both switches are running normal
at 1G to the best of my limited comprehension.
Today was fine; so I believe the trouble is/was upstream.
In the next few days I will further test my local LAN w/your suggestion. So
far, all local views appear to be running
J.
A bit confused! Thought Thunderbird was for email.
Get that you do know how to cross, still confused.
Guess I am looking still for wusiwyg. Thought all the old
battles were over. Perhaps not.
Best,
Duncan
At 16:29 08/21/2008 -0700, you wrote:
My recourse is to use Hotpopper so I can check HM
As long as your switch can handle 1G/FD from the Yukon, then that should not be an
issue for the LAN connection.
As to the upstream post-router to the internet best test is to download a really
large file & see what throughput you get. Better still is to use a
multi-thread/connection download
My recourse is to use Hotpopper so I can check HM with Thunderbird for free.
Trick these days is finding the formerly free version now that the developer has seen
$$$ in the project. Duh, I could just pay for HM+ for forwarding or Pop3/SMTP access!
Gmail so far has done what I want unlike HM a
I am not bitching. Just sharing.
Observation says that hotmail.com does NOT care for FF! Duh!
(clicked link drives cpu to 100%, shows 'loading' but web page/site never
shows up. Yes, I am very new to FF.
I get it.
Is there any recourse? Or, I just keep IE alive to do hotmail?
Yes, I could get a
Soren,
Thank you again. I will save your traceroute suggestion for the next time I
get this odd dropout behavior. I really do need to try this cmd and get
used to using it.
I am listening to the same link today and there are no dropouts (yet). I
can only suppose that the problem really does
If your NIC has some sort of config utility, you could use it for checking and altering the operation mode. Sometimes a NIC is factory set to a lower value, no matter
what Windows reports, or what setting is used in Windows Networking.
A traceroute (=tracert cmd in win) to the host will reveal i
