Anyone else having trouble logging on?

[Industrial Toys]

That's great, thanks for the heads up.

 

[wcampbell47]

Pinging the site resolves fairly quickly to the ip address. The ping reply time is decent for me being on satellite. I have used the site this evening with no issues.

 

[wcampbell47]

You would install from your old CD, then run Windows Update to update things. I would manually download Service Pack 3 and install it, then run Windows Update.

Aaron Z

An old timer pc tech person might have everything you need on CD and/or USB stick. Great advice on installing SP3 before running Windows Update. Windows update has a tendency to download the service packs from 1st to last. The last time I re-installed Win7 there were something like 196 updates. Would think XP would be similar with lots of updates to be downloaded.

 

[aczlan]

An old timer pc tech person might have everything you need on CD and/or USB stick. Great advice on installing SP3 before running Windows Update. Windows update has a tendency to download the service packs from 1st to last. The last time I re-installed Win7 there were something like 196 updates. Would think XP would be similar with lots of updates to be downloaded.

The reason is that Windows Update for XP only supports SP3 and higher.

Aaron Z

 

[MossRoad]

The reason is that Windows Update for XP only supports SP3 and higher.

Aaron Z

Uh, yep. If you load XP with no service packs and try to run Windows Updates, it won't work. So you load SP1. And it still doesn't work. So you load SP2 and it still doesn't work... SP3 is all-inclusive, as I recall.

 

[Industrial Toys]

OK, now I am really confused! It's why I like getting out and working in the bush and dirt!

Aside from that. I just tried streaming video, Dolly Parton, Dumb Blonde, (what a sweetie) on youtube while negotiating TBN and it seems TBM has quite an appetite for bandwidth. I have a mediocre (at best) high speed terrestrial wireless connection. What I witnessed surprised me, almost as much as the young Dolly.

 

[sixdogs]

This is getting weird. Sometimes I can get on sometimes I can't, sometimes I can post, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I go through all the effort to respond to a post only to not be able to post it. Sometimes I get a half a page yet a post will run the width of a whole page. Generally, I can get on only about 20% of the time.

 

[dragoneggs]

This is getting weird. Sometimes I can get on sometimes I can't, sometimes I can post, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I go through all the effort to respond to a post only to not be able to post it. Sometimes I get a half a page yet a post will run the width of a whole page. Generally, I can get on only about 20% of the time.

Hang in there... I'm sure the moderators have you mixed up with someone else a little more nefarious.

 

[MossRoad]

The moderators have nothing to do with it.

 

[dragoneggs]

The moderators have nothing to do with it.

I'm kidding. Sorry.