🚀 go-pugleaf

ArtDent wrote:
> I don't know if I should weep - for joy AND sorrow - or scream.
> I finally got dsl.
> Yay!
> Somehow tho, installing it's software totally fouled up my sound.
> Boo!

I'm now on cable but I've used DSL before, from two different 
providers. I never install their proprietary software (both DSL 
and cable) after the first attempt, because they always screwed 
up something. I've figured that you don't need their software. 
As long as you can get your static IP address and/or gateway IP 
address assigned, you're set to go. Windows' Internet connection 
wiz will get everything set up.


Bing
an once frustrated DSL/Cable crappy software victim


> First, it did not install clean anyway.  I had to hack around a bit to get
> the interweb workin, but I know it was not me that messed up the sound. 
> The sound was gone *and* I had no internet, then I had internet but still
> no sound.
> 
> I have gone from avg ping of 240 or more, to 50ish!!!  But I can / will
> not play because I have no sound whatsoever.  Too many clues from the
> sounds, heh, maybe if I was still sc, but not in hc - can't even hear the
> char grunt when getting hit.
> 
> I have already spent over four hours trying to research / fix this.
> Downloading drivers, installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc, etc.
> I will get it figured out, but the help files these days are so basic it
> is insulting.  Yes, Microsoft, they are plugged in _and_ the volume is up.
> And, while google can be a good tool, the internet is getting more 'fluff'
> everyday, weeding through a half dozen 'tech forums' where the problems
> discussed are mostly almost as basic as mentioned above is time consuming
> and usually non-productive besides - they only repeat MS's pablum.
> 
> Heck, I will go buy the new computer I was thinking about if I must.  I
> want that anyway. :)
> This one can keep a mule game open or park one in the game I am playing in
> to up the exp I get.
> Ok, rant and brag done.  Bed time, past bed time.
> 
> Oh, yeah, the real irony of my new dsl?  It will be costing me two dollars
> less each month than my dial-up.
>