-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help me please

I have been having this trouble since Sunday.
The modem is an internal one, not a slide in. Sometimes I can get to a web
site with Bell south and sometimes I get cut off. It is very intermittent. I
can get to the web site and view my mail on Netzero and sometimes on
Bellsouth. I am on dial up, don't have any thing else available where we
live, too far out in the county.
I was sailing along with not a sign of trouble until Sunday and since then
that is all I have had. Right now, I am sending and receiving on BS. But
tomorrow or the next time I connect it may be a different story. I can send
mail by BS but if I try to receive it tells me how many messages I have and
then when they start to download, it cuts me off.
Thanks Suzanne, don't know where I will go from here. Maybe try a different
modem and see if that truly is the cause.
Yvonne



----- Original Message -----
From: "suzanne" <lailoken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help me please


>
> hey Yvonne... is your modem integrated into the back of the laptop or is
it
> a card that you slide into a slot on the side of the machine?  can you get
> to a website when you are connected to your bellsouth service and not
> NetZero?  are you on DSL or dial-up?  can you get to bellsouth's webmail
> site to view and or send mail?  the url is http://webmail.bellsouth.net.
if
> the problem is only with your mail, check the settings you have for your
> account in your email client, which I believe you said was OE 5.5,  both
> SMTP and POP3 servers should read *mail.bellsouth.net* [without the *s].
>
> I also am on bellsouth and have been for years... with little complaint...
> however, this morning, their service was EXTREMELY slow... I could not hit
> any web pages just before I left for work.  that would have been around 3
> hours before you posted your plea for help... but I was still receiving
> mail, altho I didn't try sending any.
>
> suzánne
>
>
> ----- From: "Yvonne"
>
> > I have a pc slot, if I bought a pc modem and loaded the driver in for
it,
> > what would it do to the present modem? and how would I get it to switch
> from
> > the one I have installed to the PC card one? My son suggested that, but
he
> > isn't here to help me figure out how to switch from one to the other,
(he
> > lives in a different state) and not even sure he knows how. It was just
a
> > suggestion he made.
> >
> > I'm not real savvy on this kind of thing, even though I have bumbled
> through
> > a lot of it, I have reformatted before, and I would now, but the Dell
goes
> > back to bare bones when it is reformatted and everything from the audio
to
> > the video drivers have to be reloaded. Window, every program I have, and
> > hundreds of things I don't want to lose.
> >
> > Just curious how to configure something like this to work around the
modem
> > that is currently installed.
>
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