Was it even worth it?

[Tomlo]

DSO6 Class fiber run exclusively for the US military has somethin in the ball park of 500GB/s

Oh I know that their is large "Internet Pipelines" That corperations and military branches use, by saying that I doubt that 12gb lines are in existance I was refering to the most you could get feed into a home as in DSL/CABLE/T-CARRIER. Possibly 12mbps but that would be pushing it.

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offten times i pist $#@! in my USB ports and it barely registers. I have to wait for the new hardware icon to pop up. Is the light supposed to blink?

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sum guy at my skool who knos everything about comps said iu needed a card and not usb. is he right? will a desktop accept this?

[Tomlo]

When the light blinks the device is probally busy. You can buy a wireless card but im not sure if it would get signals any better than what you have now and Im fairly certin it wouldnt be much faster. USB2.0 should offer more than enough bandwidth for anything, If your using USB1.0 ports then DO get a card.

[ACID]

Thats 56Mbps, not 56kbps like dialup. 56mbps is much more than enough fo most people and I highly doubt you have a 12gbps line in your house if they are even in existance. Heck even 1gbps lines are just recently making their way into the mainstream market.

mi bad i put a 2 bi mistake your right is 1gbps. And i thought you said 56k but if its 56mbps you chould be more then fine

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so how do i kno if my USB is 1.0 and dont say call Dell either..

[Tomlo]

Go to My Computer and right click it and go to properties, Click on the hardware tab, click on device manager, scroll to the bottom and expand the item labeled Universal Serial Bus Controllers.

Several Items should apear, If any of them have the word "Enhanced" in them then you have USB 2.0 Ports.

If you dont see the word "Enhanced" anywhere then either the USB2.0 ports are not setup or likely you have an older version of USB ports.

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how old could it be? its a demension 3000 and i got it like a year ago! it keeps sayin $#@! about the windows logo not matchin eventhough its for XP as said on the disk. my USB ports are constantly doing or not doing plug n play. I gotta take stuff out and put it back in or change things. It keeps saying "little or no activity" so i dont kno what to do. maybe 1 of u can get on my comp and help me

[Tomlo]

The Demension 3000 has USB2.0 ports but you need Windows XP SP2 for them to work. As for little or no connectivity that means that the wireless network is not operating at 100% efficency, like you said its working at 56% efficency which is plenty for any tasks you would need.

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how big is SP2 and how do i kno if ive got it? Plenty for any task? the only task i want itto work for IS THE 1 INVOLVING IT WORKING. It want allow me to get on the internet. thats the problem. no pw needed for the network it just want operate on that.