-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Help me please

Please set your clock, it seems to be almost 3 hours fast, really messes up the 
email sort order.

-Jim-


Yvonne wrote:
> 
> 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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