System Flakyness

[George Toft]

Was not my choice.  Living conditions dictated I use a Windows box,
and my choice was a free DSL modem (Intel 2100) or a $150 external.
Since it was free, and I had to use Windows, that's the route I went.

Now I have my house, and I have my Linux and Solaris boxes, and I
am up to 3 days of uptime on the Windows box.  Life is grand.

George


Craig White wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
> > Toft
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:47 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: System Flakyness
> >
> >
> > "me too!"
> >
> > I went from one crash per hour with Windows to one crash per year
> > after switching to Linux.  Even after I replaced every component
> > in the computer, and reinstalled Windows 54 times, I still had the
> > crashes.
> >
> > Microsoft's knowledgebase said my problem was memory.
> >
> > More recently, my Windows system would crash once or twice a day.
> > When I moved and stopped using the dial-up networking for DSL, which
> > is how the Intel 2100 internal DSL modem is driven, the lockups
> > stopped.
> >
> > George
> >
> ----
> Not to change the subject or anything ;-)
> 
> I really have an intense dislike for the Intel 2100 DSL Modem - it is
> marginal hardware at best and given the fact that I only seem to encounter
> these with Qwest cheapest PPP accounts - I cower.
> 
> This said, I have seen a LOT of Cisco 678 (the model that Qwest is shipping
> instead of the 675 these days) fail after a week or two (or a month or two)
> so in general, the DSL hardware seems to leave quite a bit to be desired.
> 
> Craig
> 
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