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yep, unless a lawyer says so it may not even be legally binding. in addition, i don't know many techs who would sign it considering everything in your computers will fail eventually. I sure wouldn't want to be the hapless sap sitting at the PC when the hard drive crashes!

look at the geek squad, then divide by 3

and disable USB ports or they could just bring portable firefox in on a usb drive

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it is also "illegal" to remove or alter the sony rootkit software that was installed by playing music released by the BGM label (sony owned) on your computer. our legislation is totally backwards.

my vote is for radio or magnetic interfearance. if there was an issue with port forwarding you wouldn't see the logical link (11Mbps) drop to 1, this happens onyl* if your wireless nic is getting a (or what it thinks is) a weak signal. any new neighbors with ham radios? …

lookup LSP fix on google and run it on the 2 computers that are having problems just in case spyware + mcafee = broken sockets. then try re-running the Network Setup Wizard (you would be surprised) then try some reg edits... ;Issue this addresses: resests DNS [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache] "Type"=dword:00000020 "Start"=dword:00000002 "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 …

c'mon, just crimp the guy some cable!

Sounds like a good candidate for a firmware and driver update to me. Also, make sure your new computer doesn't have programs "checking" for updates in the background. in the mean time, at least dial up is 33-52kbps

ipconfig /flushdns... then power cycle modem and/or router in that order.

also you may need to delete any previous wireless networks from your "prefferred networks" list... ::winXP only:: 1. goto network connections 2. right click wireless connection and select properties 3. select wireless networks tab 4. remove all prefferred networks and select OK 5. reconnect to wireless.

only if your D-Link has a "repeater" or "WDS" mode where you set the network name , channel, and security to match your BT homehub... in short, I doubt it, but maybe.

Sounds like you may be having DNS or socket issues. I assume you are running winXP. try IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS from cmd prompt. also try to ping a website like google.com with all firewalls off (even AOL). to test for basic connectivity from OS (you) to remote host (them). last, if …

Tracert (or trace route) is just a ping that traces it's path. ICMP is the protocol that allows you to ping something. ICMP is probably disabled in your default gateway (the router or modem closest to the computer that you are pinging from). try pointing your browser to 140.87.7.1 and …

you could re-flash your router to be a little more feature filled using something like dd-wrt. or you could buy a better on. Software is not really an option in this case, but maybe a proxy server...

on XP open the properties of your wireless connection ---> Wireless Networks and delete all of your preffered networks. then re-scan for new networks in the area.