I’m looking for a good cheap alternative to a laptop for my mom – she would only use it for web surfing/email and her provider is Juno dialup (yeah, I know…) Seems ridiculous to pay $500 for the low-end dell when even that has way more power than she needs. Such a device must have a large (>12″) screen and must have dialup capability. Would prefer not to buy anything used.
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Tagged alternative, capability, dell, Dialup, email, Juno, laptop, mom, provider, way, web, web surfing, yeah
I have windows vista and windows xp on my dell computer I am using dialup service.I need step by step instructions for keeping my computer and internet connection on for longer than 20minutes.
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Tagged 20minutes, Computer, connection, dell, dell computer, Dialup, internet, internet connection, keeping computer, long periods of time, service, step, time, vista, windows xp
ok here is my problem I had a dell desktop with dialup. It was old and very basic. I was okay with the speed, i use it for internet music and photos. I recently bought a gateway laptop and I am using same dialup connection and it trememdously slow. I heard from everyone that it was going to be much faster. I don’t really need super speed but I can hardly even do anything on it. It is so slow? I am getting roadrunner soon, but why is this new one with super specs worse than old one with bad specs?
i have had it for two days
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i’m on my mother’s dell. it has windows xp and watching sreaming videos palys then buffers play then buffers until it reaches the end of the video. i was always told there was no way to watch video on dial up like you can on dsl without the buffering.
do any of you know a way around this? would resetting the video accelerator stop that?
oh yes this is a desktop
yes i know this is why people get dsl. but some people can’t when they live too far outside of tow. the whole world doesn’t live in the city.
yes i know that to. tell me something i don’t know
I cleaned off my old Dell desktop that has a dialup modem. Loaded Windows XP Pro – dialup connection dropped to 26.8. Had the geeks come out to assess and was told that my 486 processor was unable to keep up with the OS.
I purchased a new Dell laptop in January thinking that everything would be configured correctly and my dialup would increase a bit.
NOT!!! What is causing this issue?
Also, I heard that Vista will not work with dial up. Is this accurate? I have the upgrade but have not installed it.
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Tagged 486 processor, connection, dell, dell desktop, desktop, Dialup, dialup connection, dialup modem, geeks, isp, Loaded, modem, processor, Speeds, Windows, windows xp
