I looked into Norton Ghost and it had really bad
reviews on downloads.com. One of the reviewers
mentioned a less expensive program (with better
reviews) called Acronis True Image. I think I will
look into the abilities of the Acronis one to see if
it would work for what I want to do. If not I may see
about going with Norton Ghost 10.0. I really really
appreciate the info!
I just need to remember to burn something to DVD to
help restore windows XP in case there is a problem
when I upgrade to the new mainboard setup.
Direcway just sold out to Hughes.net and the service
has really declined. I keep having pages timeout when
loading and get errors, their tech support no longer
works (can't get through to anyone), and my pop3 email
no longer works (despite my following their tutorials
on setting it up). So I had to switch to using yahoo
email. bleh. I think its evident I'm more than a teeny
bit annoyed.
The bandwidth cap is a major pain. When I first signed
up they said that unless I was constantly loading
really large files at a high rate of speed I wouldn't
have to worry about the cap. That was before they
lowered the amount of bandwidth allowed before
capping. Loading a patch for EQ takes about 4 hours or
more. Its really annoying. I lose connection whenever
it rains-- or sometimes when its bright and sunny for
no apparent reason. I would not recommend this
"service" to anyone. I had to call tech support sooo
many times that I memorized some of the routines and
then one of the techs in India started flirting with
me (which was actually pretty funny).
Man.. I'm venting..
Once I get the system upgraded I will see about
playing again.
Thank you!
*hugs*
luv,
-Su
This didn't go the first time I tried to send. Stupid
hughesnet. grrr. trying again.
--- Wulfric Rennison <
wulftech@...> wrote:
> Su,
>
> Look into a prograM called Norton's Ghost. It will
> do exactly what you want it to do. I've used it
> several times on my own systems when installing new
> hard drives to set as primary. Basically, what you
> do is install the new drive as a slave, completely
> wiped (you dont even have to partition it). Then
> you install Norton's Ghost on your main drive. Run
> Norton's Ghost and choose the option to do a direct
> ghost copy to the new drive. Everything right down
> to the partitions will be copied to the new drive.
> Then you shut down the machine, switch the drive
> over to master and reboot. Barring any major
> problems it'll boot up exactly as if it were the
> regular drive on that system. Then you can take the
> original drive and wipe it and use it as a secondary
> for extra space. It's a handy program.
>
> Your system sounds decent enough to run EQ albeit
> with some lag in the newer zones. Turning off a lot
> of options might help that though. However, on
> DirecWay I wouldn't expect too much. DirecWay is
> bad about limiting the amount of data that can be
> sent at any given time. If you send mroe than you
> are allowed to, they pretty much stop all
> communication and give you some stupid message about
> exceedxing the bandwidth. Then it takes like 5
> minutes to reset. You can look it up, the info is
> right there ont he DirecWay site. That's why they
> don't reccomend using DirecWay for gaming. But if
> all you want to do is browse the web and chat, it's
> fine. If I can find the link, I'll post it for you.
>
> Wulfric
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Su Johnston
> To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Does anyone solo anymore?
>
>
> I have a Cleric. But I haven't actually gotten xp
> in
> over a year. I can't even get dialup where I live
> because the phone company has spliced my lines so
> badly I can't even dial out to an ISP. They refuse
> to
> fix it and so far I haven't found any way to get
> them
> to. Too much other stuff to worry about frankly.
> Like
> finding a lawyer to sue a doctor for malpractice,
> and
> still working on repairing hurricane Rita damage.
> I currently have direcway Satellite-- which
> inherently
> has latency. When I first got it with the Direcway
> 4000 2-way the bandwidth was 800k down and about
> 50k
> up (allegedly 50k up-- clocked around 30k).
> Sometime
> later when the modem died due to an incident with
> my
> cat and a glass of milk I got the newer Direcway
> 6000.
> Direcway then dropped the bandwidth to 500k down
> (without informing me). When I play world of
> warcraft
> I generally have between 1200 to 4000ms latency.
> Last
> time I tried to get into EQ it just kept timing
> out on
> me.
> As for my system, I have an AMD athlon thunderbird
> 1.4Ghz processor, 1GB of DDR SDRAM, ASUS A7M266-M
> motherboard, GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128Mb vid card, and
> Philips Acoustic Edge 5.1 sound card.
> I plan on upgrading to an ASUS A8V Deluxe (rev 2)
> motherboard, 2Gb Kingston PC3200 ValueRAM, and AMD
> Athlon 3500 2.0GHz processor (with venice core).
> I will be using my same video card, sound card,
> and
> power supply (Antec SmartPower 2.0 450W) and
> adding an
> additional 300Gb harddrive.
> I'm currently trying to figure out how to transfer
> all
> of my data from my puny primary drive and putting
> it
> on the 300Gb drive and setting it as primary, then
> upgrading to the new mobo setup without having to
> use
> a windows xp cd. Unfortunately I don't have
> restore
> CDs for my pc bc it didn't come with any software
> on
> CDs. One of those deals where HP partitioned the
> harddrive. Since the warrenty is up on it I doubt
> I
> could get tech support from them.
> I wish I could figure out a way to just copy all
> of
> the programs so that they would be installable. I
> should have an extra OEM of xp laying around
> somewhere
> but it got lost in all the chaos of the hurricane.
> luv,
> -Su
>
>
> --- Wulfric Rennison <wulftech@...>
> wrote:
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Su> what class are you? And what is your
> connection
> speed? I assume you're on dial up in a rural area
> and
> highs peed internet such as cable or DSL is not
> available to you. Even if you're connecting at
> 44k-46k sometimes you can help yourself by what
> kind
> of computer you have. I know at one point I had a
> PIII 800mhz system on an ISDN line and I didn't
> have
> TOO much lag. But that was back when Kunark and
> Velious were the newest expansions. Now I have a
> P4
> 2.4 Ghz with 1GB RAM and a 256MB video card on a
> 5Mb
> cable modem connection. No lag at all.
>
>
> Wulfric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Su Johnston
> Sent: Apr 18, 2006 12:28 AM
> To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Does anyone solo anymore?
>
>
> I prefer to solo, unfortunately its not possible
> with
> my connection. At level 66 I still have trouble
> killing level 30s. Mostly because of the damage
> misreporting related to the lag. Although I
> haven't
> played in months. My connection has gotten so bad
> that
> I really can't play anymore. I tried doing an LDON
> a
> few months ago but the lag got so bad that I was
> stuck
> for 15 minutes unable to do anything. Zoning takes
> at
> least 5 minutes. If I die it will take me 20
> minutes
> at the very least to get back to my corpse.
> Sometimes
> an hour if I have to zone a lot.
> I really don't think the game is designed for
> characters of my class and level to be able to
> solo.
> I've pretty much switched to World of Warcraft now
> because it doesn't do damage misreporting and
> death
> doesn't take too much time.
> luv,
> -Su
>
> --- Just Me <eeyore_95682@...> wrote:
>
> > After a year and a half of playing, I've done a
> lot
> > of group play and
> > a lot of duoing, but I seem to enjoy soloing
> more
> > nowdays. I can go
> > where I want, do what I want and keep the loot
> and
> > xp for myself.
> > Don't get me wrong, I still like to group, but
> > sometimes, for my own
> > peace of mind, I much prefer soloing. Anyone
> else?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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