Morris Minor Owners Club

Glad all is well again. Just a foot note, the guys who make CClean also do a disc de-fragmenter and a file recovery tool, both of which are great and free for home use.

PC's are a bit like cars really, a little 'preventative maintainence' with the right tools makes all the difference....

Any cheapskates, like me, may like to consider replacing Windows with http://www.ubuntu.com. It's nice not to have to be too worried about viruses and I prefer it over Vista or Windows 7.

Dean wrote:Mine was slow too.... just downloaded that Cclean.. wow it deleted 705Mb of chaff, my pc now zips along like new. Thanks for the advice.

Lord Anthony wrote:
Any cheapskates, like me, may like to consider replacing Windows with http://www.ubuntu.com. It's nice not to have to be too worried about viruses and I prefer it over Vista or Windows 7.

All well and good -- but terrible if you want to use any kind of widely-available software, like video games! I am a big fan of open-source software, though (hence my general antipathy toward Apple -- so damn proprietary).

You all are lucky, having a small(ish) country...on average you get a better connection. With 310 million people, the US sometimes has a hard time getting good speed, and that's after broadband upgrades that not everyone can easily get. 5Mb/s...at college I get about 2.9, and at home it varies but we don't have broadband (instead it's wireless, using cell phone towers), so it's more like 60kb/s. Upload at the college is 0.5Mb/s.

tbf you can get most things working in linux using wine. ok it can be fiddly and you have to know what your doing, but it works.

the one thing you can do to rule out spyware and the like without the hassle of downloading and running a million programs is get hold of a spare usb drive and install this

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source ... 8RK9-QAT_Q

if that connects to the net and runs perfect then its somethign hogging up windows. if not then its an isp problem.

bit defender is also an excellent tool shoudl you require it. ofcourse another way to reduce your risk of getting any infections is to ditch internet explorer. may i recommend chrome. prettier and better.

Just one warning DO NOT DO THE PIN IN THE BACK TRICK unless you know your internet user name and password as this resets the router to its factory default and you will have wiped out your connection and need to re enter all the relevant info, fine if you have a BT router as its automatic but a lot of older routers even need the country code set up for them to work so beware.

if he does i garuantee he can get access via 198.184.0.1 with username and password of administrator & password.

Yup that will get him into the router but not onto the internet BTW other variations are 192.168.1.0 or 192.168.0.1 and other names are epicrouter and other passwords are admin, password and again epicrouter,used to fit em in the early days of broadband when nobody knew what they were doing !!! even had a guy bought a wireless roter then bought it back because he couldn't get a signal, tested it in the shop and connected straight away, asked him who his phone provider was and he said what phone, I aint got one, I thought as it was wireless it would just work...........oooops

haha yeah i love guys like that. tbf though once hes in the router you can bet your mortgage it'l have a connection wizard of somesort.

if that other usb distro doesnt take your fancy then try

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source ... vuVANrPl6A

has aot of usefull tools and can read ntfs so will access windows based hdd's no problem too.

polo2k wrote:

It is a good information about internet speed.........
Like the same way , i check my internet speed everyday..........both downloading & uploading speed through this site www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test
My speed test results are,
upload speed:0.52 kbps
download speed:1.96 kbps
It has the best & accurate results for my internet speed test!!!!