FWIW, a warehouse location of our office has DSL+pots from Embarq
(formerly Sprint). The voice is frequently scratchy/humming, sometimes
has no dial tone, and sometimes rings busy even when it's not--all
these problems exacerbated by rain definitely. The DSL part of the
line seems rock solid though...very weird.
A tech on their phone support line once told me that it's not unusual
for DSL service to be fine while phone service is non-functional.
At my house I'm irritated because Verizon just packed up and left my
area--sold all their phone lines and the whole market to Frontier
Communications. Guess I shouldn't hope for FIOS any time soon, or even
AT&T Uverse. My options are cable modem or max 1mbps down DSL. Bleh.
Scott
On May 28, 2009, at 12:53 AM, mark.dodge wrote:
AT&T Uverse 400 with MAX 18 DSL, DSL Reports.com says I'm getting
16.79 So
I'm very happy and Outlook works fine with AT&T pots, never tried
Eudora or
T-Bird, very happy with Outlook 2007, love the calendar and
integration with
Exchange and the ability to get to it on the web also...
As a side note, my phone goes out when it rains hard but the DSL
stays on in
the nastiest storms. Same copper, weird stuff.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 04:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] ThunderBird v2.0.0.21?
j.,
Yes I got it; and, after printing many pages at Mozy/Support, I now
have
more than enough instructions on how to copy/move my current "profile"
from where it defaulted to, to a new home on my d:\ drive partition. I
am still reading.......... :) Funny how 15 years ago all this would
have been a no-brainer; now, I read the instructions and my eyes just
glaze over. Must be age.....!!!!
Latest Modem Saga - So yesterday I called the magic support number to
start my "DSL goes out every time it rains here!" trouble elevation.
I got to "Alice." "Alice" was very good, sort of. I am now waiting for
my 'Violating the TOS' memo because I gave up my LAN and router.
After 2 hours of "troubleshooting", we decided that my [?working]
modem
is broken because I could not get it to respond to a normal http
browser
call. Yes, I was forced to admin one of my sleeping machines to the
modem's home subnet (192.168.1.x). After 3 differrent cat5 cables
and 3
room changes (pots line!), the modem refused to answer a browser
call...
even after multiple modem and PC reboots! Odd too, because it worked
fine 4 days ago....... LOL! And, it was setup properly then also, to
the best of my knowledge and the docs I have. Stupid Westell!
I now have a BSRE# and a new modem on the way to me. All for only $40!
It seems my old $75 modem is "out of warranty." LOL! But, "Alice"
did
give me a phone number for "Billing" should I wish to discuss the $40
replacement charge..... ?..........Another skirmish!
Let's just call this step 1 in my battle with the phone company.
Yes, cable is looking much brighter ATM! LOL!
I do feel the need to play this game until at least the 7th inning.
Thank you.
Best,
Duncan
maccrawj wrote:
Well my point was not that you needed a different program files
folder
but rather that you needed to run the profilemanager to create a
profile
in a folder of your choosing. The program & the profile are 2
separate
entities and you need only backup the profile portion.
As to you modem issue, they decided this without sending a tech to
certify the line as clean? Guess you'll have to play that game
until the
same problem exists with the new modem. DSL seems inheriently
fickle and
the modems offer nothing like cable modems do as far as
status/diagnostics. In the end this is why I dumped Verizon DSL in
anger
& switched to cable. Quite thankful they pissed me off so bad or I'd
never of known the local cable co was finally entering the 21st
century!
DHSinclair wrote:
<snip>
I will start with creating a d:\Program Files directory. I can miss
all the recent interim email on TB for now. I think I understand
your
backup calls for TB, but need to settle and re-read your share a few
more times.
<snip>
maccrawj wrote:
Could be with it disabled they are allowing non-SSL despite
claiming
you must use it. In other words the checkbox is likely correct,
unchecking it is disabling SSL. SSL is where you want to be and you
may find the non-SSL ceases to work down the road given that are
telling customers they must use SSL. Current version TB is 2.0.0.21
but a quick search did not net me any conclusive info concerning
SSL
bugs.
Right now I am using SSL for pop3.gmail.com, but not using Secure
Authentication. Looks like gmail doesn't support SA despite doing
SSL.
The reason your mail is under docs & settings for your user is that
TB automatically creates the profile the way, as do most windows
programs. You can use the -profilemanager switch when launching
TB to
get it to bring up the profile manager where you can manually
choose
where to create a profile's data folder. With that created you can
either import again or you may be able to just copy over the data
from the other TB profile.
Personally I have my TB installed on drive D:'s program files tree
and the profile under a data folder on drive P:. When I backup, I
simply shutdown TB, Zip up the profile tree & archive that.
Backup wise all the email currently is in:
C:\Documents and Settings\UID\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\yy98ry8o.default\Mail
<snip>
