@All

Well it's all most midnight here, 2009 is at an end, 2010 is peeking around the door, there is a new years eve dance going on next door and I can hear the music, which isn't too bad at all I might add.

I just got my Ethernet driver installed, ooooooha it's a good feeling, that sucker was giveing me greef big time, no mater how or what I did it just would not stick itself into windows system32, I had to crow bar it in.

I downloaded every driver (with help from everyones http links, thank you all) I could see from the gigabyte site related to my MB, unzipped them all, burnt them all to a single CD and told windows to go fetch. There was over 200mb of the little rotters.
It did, It found the correct driver and viola, I got LAN, yippee i O.

The "yellow" Ethernet warning turned "Green".

Wouldnt it have been nice if Gigabyte had posted the above info on its web site? too easy huh!

Tomorra I will go and annoy the Activ8me chappies in india, u know, the ones I/we carnt understand how they speak when they try and explain "HowToInstallOrSetupTheSatelliteBroadbandConnection".
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, even the phamptoms

jim

Happy New Year 2010 Card to all

QuoteI found it fascinating that I could get over 1 volt by just running an air born wire to a grounded wire.

In his Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman stated that as you go up from the surface of the earth, the electrical potential increases by about 100 volts per meter. Thus a vertical electric field gradient of 100 volts/meter exists in the air. This naturally occurring 100 volts per meter electric field gradient exists everywhere in the earth's atmosphere and can even penetrate inside most buildings.
http://www.imagineeringezine.com/e-zine/efield-1.htm

@electricme. A bummer having to use sat. Really overpriced for its capability's. Wireless towers are better and can transmit 50 miles and more. Its just finding an Isp who would do it.  At least your not subjected to dialup any more!

@IotaYodi,

Thanks for those words of sympathy, he he, guess what, I think I have figured it out, how to use the Satellite Broadband, I am making my very first post here as I send this off on the forum, using Satellite.
I have disabled the Dial up, and lets see how it goes now.

As I did a spelling check, I noticed for the first time the ipstar modem TX/Rx blue LED was winking rapidly at me, lol, oh boy I sure hope it works.


I will take a look see at the http address you posted as a test also.

jim

@all
It seems to be working, ha ha ha, I took a look at the 2 tiny computer lights, double clicked on them, they havent registered any uploads or downloads in bytes yet, did I accidently figure out to get it for freee. hmmm prob not.

jim