🚀 go-pugleaf

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!
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.

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