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Stray_cat
Member
06-21-2006
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Ketchuplover - my brother was having the same problems with YouTube so his internet provider told him to run a speed test with this link (below). Where it says CHOOSE A SERVER, we selected SEATTLE, WA (as we are on Vancouver Island), I guess you'd select where ever you are closest to. http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ His download and upload speeds were really low so apparently that affected running YouTubes. Mine was okay but I still can only play maybe 70% of YouTubes. Hope this helps determining whether you have adequate speed.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 7:51 pm
Straycat, thx for the link. Being in Toronto, I chose NY.NY and the results were: dl: 4344 and ul: 681 Yikes: It says that the numbers should match or at least be very close to be at effective, optimum speed. They aren't even close.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 8:07 pm
Mameblanche: Those number are fine. In most broadband setups the download speed is going to be much greater than the upload speed. For watching YouTubes (and most of what people do on the internet), the download speed is what matters. The only time you may notice the slower uplink speed is when emailing large attachments (like photos) or if you were actually uploading a video to YouTube.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 8:19 pm
Bless ya Bob, I was VERY worried. Thanks so much for the reassurance. BTW, I am a very big fan of Tech-Gurus named Bob. (If you're familiar at all with my posts and queries on tech-topics, you probably know that my RL techie-guru is also named Bob.) Anyhow, getting more ram-memory is still number one on my must-have wish-list.
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Stray_cat
Member
06-21-2006
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 9:42 pm
Mameblanche - mine are quite similar to yours. Download Speed: 4909 kbps Upload Speed: 491 kbps My brothers were extremely low which was causing problems so they were able to fix a few things to get better numbers.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Bah-RAM-Ewe, MB, the sooner the better. Just kidding, but I hope you get some. RAM, or whatever else you might need.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, June 02, 2008 - 9:50 pm
Here is a picture of me and SpongeBob meeting in Chicago back in the early days. He brought me a can of cocktail weenies as a peace offering.

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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 7:44 am
Those are very good speeds Mame. Lovely picture Juju!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 9:09 am
Aw you were both so young and lovely then. Well, yer still lovely. (wink)
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 6:41 pm
That'll do, Juju, that'll do! -- One of my very favorite movies.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 3:00 pm
I have had this happen a couple of times, only with TVCH. I have done a search and am reading through the posts, I click on one (never the same place so far) and all of a sudden my computer croaks at me and then the window closes. There is never a message and the other IE window I have open is unaffected.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 5:35 pm
I have never had that happen, Dipo.
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 9:37 pm
My ISP recently suggested I try http://www.speedtest.net/ for my connection speed test. Here's the results from testing tonight:
The site should suggest the location nearest to you to get the optimal test. These results are the closest I have found to the actual rated speed of my connection. (Actually, they are a little faster than what I reportedly get!)
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 6:31 am
Now all youtube clips are unavailable. Had similar thing happen last week. Signed up with a different email. Things were going fine until today.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:11 am
Dang you have a heck of an internet connection there Dra!
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Stray_cat
Member
06-21-2006
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 10:58 am
Draheid - I tried that one in comparison with the one I posted above and they are very close in accuracy: 4910 485 as compared to: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ 4943 463 But no where near your speeds... those are great!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 11:20 am
That little uploading and downloading graphic was pretty cool. Here are my results.
I am going to try Stray-cat's site too. 6558 download and 1577 upload
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Speedtests don't really work for Comcast ever since we got something called "Blast". The readings end up a bit misleading because you only get that super fast rate for a short time at the beginning of big uploads and downloads. It's great for little files, tho.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 1:47 pm
OK, for the metrically challenged (me). Is this a good result? Compared to what you're saying about other's results, I gather it is.
Comcast advertised (I think) 6 mbps. How does that convert?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 1:54 pm
Very impressive, Whoami. That is 26.5 Mb per second.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 2:00 pm
Hmmm. So that must be the result of their "Power Boost." That's how they advertise it in my neck of the woods. Must be the same as your "Blast" Naja.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 10:52 pm
S.O.S. for Dra, please...and/or any techsavvy people: (I posted this in the FeedBack Forum) For the past 3 days, I've been having probs getting into TVCH, or when I'm in it, my screen all of a sudden goes white and I get a message saying that I can't access the site. The actual message I get is NAVIGATION TO WEBSITE CANCELLED. This has been going on intermittently, several times a day and lasts sometimes about 20 minutes to at least an hour. This is the ONLY site where I've encountered this problem. My folder is my homepage and I NEVER have problems accessing it, or this site in general - well until 3 days ago. Now this is driving me nuts. (Nutsier than usual, anyways.) I've gone over it with my computer guru Bob, by phone. He's home recovering from a mild heart attack last month. I hated to bother him, but he's one of my closest pals and he's got cabin fever and was glad to try to help for a while, (til he got fatigued.) He spent quite a bit of time with me today on the phone and we ran several diagnostics, (cleaned up the system, and tweaked things in the TOOLS, etc.) I figured that everything was fine after that. But nope. It's happened at least twice tonight since then. I share a router with my dh Vinnie's computer and I have the same problem, couldn't access this site on his computer either. Meanwhile, the other night I asked Deanofwords who lives downstairs in my bldg and has the same internet supplier and he had no problem at all getting in here and hasn't encountered this problem at all at least since I last spoke with him. So now what? Bob thinks it MIGHT be either the modem or the router at this point. I'd really like your opinion cuz I am dreading phoning my internet supplier. The call will end up overseas to someone who barely speaks English. The last time I called them the guy made a bigger mess and Bob had to sort it out. What I'm taking a looong time to ask is this: Are you familiar with a computer problem that says - NAVIGATION TO WEBSITE CANCELLED - ? This is the ONLY site I'm having this problem with... I did update my IE a short while ago cuz my system is sloooow, and it's a pain in the tush, and I am sending dh out to buy me one gig of ram this week, to speed things up, but that shouldn't have anything to do with this stupid, crazymaking problem. If you or any techsavvy soul have any experience with this, or best guesses, I'd be quite grateful. Oh, and since it sometimes takes HOURS to get back in here, please email me at joycieq@sympatico.ca just in case I can't access this place for even longer next time... thanks so much in advance. (I'm going to post this in the tech questions thread too. If I can find it. AND if I don't get frozen out again. It's happened a few times while I've tried to post stuff, as well. Sigh.) PS/I'm sorry this post is so long... but I'm posting it instead of emailing you cuz I don't have your email addy AND mainly because maybe, just maybe, someone else has been encountering this techie nightmare and not just me, and hopefully they found a solution.
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Draheid
Board Administrator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 5:34 am
Mameblanche: The references to that message suggest it is a security settings issue in Internet Explorer. My first inclination is to suggest you try a different browser. Firefox is very popular (2nd most frequently used on TVCH). You can find this at www.firefox.com. Otherwise you will probably need to change the security settings in Internet Explorer. The most common reference has to do with mixed media. One site has this suggestion to correct the problem:
quote:Navigation Cancelled Error To protect your security, Internet Explorer 7 blocks Web sites that display non-secure content. If this is happening on your computer, you will see a "navigation cancelled" error message or a bar will appear above your address bar that states: "To help protect your security Internet Explorer has blocked this web site from displaying non-secure content. Click here for options ..." If you click that message box, you can then click "Display blocked content" and the Web site will appear. For a more permanent solution follow the steps below: 1. Click Tools on the top of your Internet Explorer screen. 2. Click Internet Options. 3. Click the Security tab. 4. Click the Internet icon. 5. Click Custom level. 6. Locate Display mixed content 7. Click the radio button next to Enable (the default setting is" Prompt "). 8. Click OK to save your changes.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 8:04 am
Well, that is interesting. You might recall when we were going to Africa, I could not reach TVCH from the Embassy Suites hotel computer because of security settings, but I could reach other reality television message boards.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 8:15 am
But don't most sites have non-secure content? ----------------------------------- I'm looking for recommendations for a good program (preferably free or inexpensive) to use to change the size of partitions on a drive without destroying the data or programs on the drive? The OS is XP and the file system is FAT32 Thanks!
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