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Sorry. I know you were looking to try to increase your fields, not
watch them decrease, but this is just an exercise in frustration for
me. (And now that Eldred has quit, I can't even take solace in beating
him. [Just kidding, Eldred. You were generally faster than me in
everything else, I imagine you'd beat me at NASCAR too.])

I hope you get some other new members -- with decent connections).

All the best,
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  Darryl

You should contact your ISP and tell them of your connection problems.  Make
them give you the service that you're *paying* for, and you can keep racing...

Eldred
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Real shame Darryl - last night you looked fine - no warping or anything but
you suddenly disappeared :(
It doesn't sound very good went your modem looses sync - like Eldred said
maybe they can check your line. There's stories about ground work somewhere
else hitting a cable or something.

cheers jurjen

I'll probably take a couple of Valium and call them one of these
days, but the problem seems to be at its worst during the days on
weekends. I can race at night with very few problems, and I'm afraid
of some tech guy going into "fix" my lines and making it so I can't
race at night either.

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  Darryl

Mitch

I have, in fact, tried connecting the modem to the phone wires at the
demarcation point. I even tried connecting the modem to the outside
of the house, running my cat 5 wire through an open window and over
to my computer. No luck.

Essentially, the ISP raised our throughput rates from 1.5MB down to
3MB down, and ever since then I've noticed that the modem is more
susceptible to losing synch. On the support forums, some people are
recommending a newer modem, which they say is less prone to suffer
phone line interference. Others say the newer modems are NOT as good
as the older ones. Others say the getting the speed throttled back
will help; and (of course) still others say that if they set the
speed slower, it will be WAY slower than even the old 1.5 rate.

Looks like there is a great potential to lose no matter which way I
jump. For now, I', just gonig to give up on weekend, daytime racing.
(My wife can usually find something for me to do, in any case, if I
look like I'm just dragging my ass around the house. <grin>)

Thanks for the thought, though.
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  Darryl

We will keep you on the invite list of course, and you can show up whenever
you'd like. Hope you can somehow get things straightened out . :-)

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David G Fisher

We will keep you on the invite list of course, and you can show up whenever
you'd like. Hope you can somehow get things straightened out . :-)

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David G Fisher

Sounds like you may have some kind of interference if it's happening at a
given time. Something around the house on a timer maybe, or a bad street
light somewhere on the block. Also try changing out your filters.

James
aka...bluestringer