On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link > DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! > my connection is zipping along again. > > I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy.
Hehe. Speaking of funny business, I just had @home set up, and the cable installer never left me a modem manual, and 3com is <sarcasm>being their usually helpful self again</sarcasm> about offering content obscured in javascript.[0] So I emailed support to ask for a user manual. I'm sent back an 'individual' boilerplate response suggesting I power-cycle the modem and reboot my computer. Yeaaaah... [0]Is it worth a try with these companies, when told that one needs to upgrade one's browser to a version that supports javascript, to suggest donating money to the SPI | lynx devel team so they can WRITE a new version with javascript support (insofar as javascript can be ported to linear rendering)? -- Ferret