MS VISTA DIALUP 56K INTERNET CANNOT BROWSE FAIL LAPTOP

[Country Hick]

OK FOLKS

HERE IS THE DEAL.

I'VE TRIED 3 COMPUTERS.

I HAVE 2 DIFFERENT ISP'S.

EACH HAS 3 DIFFERENT DIALUP MODEMS.

THERE ARE 2 MS VISTA MACHINES, 1 LAPTOP, 1 DESKTOP.

THERE IS 1 WINXP DESKTOP.

================== WINDOWS XP ====================

THE DESKTOP CONNECTS FINE BY 56K DIALUP ON WINDOWS XP IMMEDIATELY, AT
THE OLD-SCHOOL SPEEDS OF ANYWHERE BETWEEN 42 kbps and up ...48,000
etc.

AND IS DOES SO FINE ON BOTH ISP'S.

THE INTERNET BROWSES FINE ON BOTH ISP'S.

BOTH ISP'S WORK FINE ON WINDOWS XP PRO.

================== MS VISTA ====================

The desktop with MS Vista failed to connect to ISP #1.

The laptop with MS Vista failed to connect to ISP #1 and ISP #2

None of the MS VISTA machines, with SP1, can browse or do anything on
the Internet, at all!

Checked the settings ...all is fine.

Troubleshooted the various possibilities, and no go.

================== CONCLUSION ====================

Winmodems, Agere (formerly |Lucent) and MS Vista machines are TOTAL
NUTSACK-SUCKING, SCHLONG - SEMEN SUCKING PIECES OF GARBAGE
that Microsoft has released and unleashed on the public.

There's nothing that can be done about it.

And the "modem dialup 56k" functionality of MS Vista is just for show.

No longer are the old-school messages of dialup posted in the
connection attempts, for diagnosis, such as:

668 - The connection dropped.

669 - The usage parameter in the media .INI file is invalid.

670 - Cannot read the section name from the media .INI file.

671 - Cannot read the device type from the media .INI file.

672 - Cannot read the device name from the media .INI file.

673 - Cannot read the usage from the media .INI file.

674 - Cannot read the maximum connection BPS rate from the media .INI
file.

675 - Cannot read the maximum carrier BPS rate from the media .INI
file.

676 - The line is busy.

677 - A person answered instead of a modem.

678 - There is no answer.

679 - Cannot detect carrier.

691 - Access denied because username and/or password is invalid on the
domain.

692 - Hardware failure in port or attached device.

There are no useful logs.

Meanwhile, Bill Gates has over $60 Billion USD in his bank accounts
since the mid 1990's ...and the general public has to tolerate all
poor crap, and non-support of drivers for hardware devices, modems,
etc.

Avoid MS VISTA !

Avoid Windows 7 !

[Gary A. Edelstein]

Countr...@microsoft.com said:
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>================== CONCLUSION ====================
>
>Winmodems, Agere (formerly |Lucent) and MS Vista machines are

>PIECES OF GARBAGE
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>
>There's nothing that can be done about it.
>
>And the "modem dialup 56k" functionality of MS Vista is just for show.
>

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>Avoid MS VISTA !
>
>Avoid Windows 7 !
>

I've been able to get both hardware and controllerless modems to work
fine under Vista and Win7. Having correct, compatible drivers is the
key.

There may be some controllerless modems ("winmodems") that don't have
Vista/Win7 compatible drivers, so they won't work as this poster
found. That's not necessarily a reason to dump those OSs. It may be
a reason to get a different modem.

Gary E

[tlvp]

I guess I'm just lucky -- the one Vista machine I have does just fine
dialing out and connecting to whatever dial-up ISP I need, through the
soft-modem on its motherboard. (It's an older XP machine that came with
an inept driver for its softmodem, that freezes at the first retrain,
that sent me packing for an external PCMCIA modem (by Megahertz/3Com)
to use instead.)

But I'm frustrated nigh unto death by Vista Home Premium's *omission* of
any kind of fax software (Fax Wizard, "virtual fax printer", what-have-you).

XP and earlier (all versions) had it; 7 is reported to offer it as well;
why can't MS get on the stick and make it available for Vista, too? (And
*not* just for Vista Business or Ultimate?)

Cheers, -- tlvp
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