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dallas

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Mar 23, 2002, 5:18:54 PM3/23/02
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I am not a programmer but I am a pretty good end user and I have a problem that I can not solve and I have been told that winsock may be my problem. I am running WIN-98, I.E.-6.0 on a custom built system with a Pentium II processor, a 40 gig drive split + a 4 gig drive and 520 megs of ram. My net access is DSL through my local phone service, Bellsouth.net.

MY PROBLEM:

Over the past 3 months my access has continually gotten worse and I can no longer log on through my DSL connection or my dial up. I have been told that the problem may be with my winsock.DLL and I need to replace. I’ve told that it is not a simply matter of copying a file and I could not find anything on Microsoft's web site.

ANY help would be appreciated.


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meirman

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Mar 25, 2002, 9:14:00 AM3/25/02
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In alt.winsock.trumpet on Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:18:54 -0800 "dallas"
<alli...@bellsouth.net> posted:

>I am not a programmer but I am a pretty good end user and I have a problem that I can not solve and I have been told that winsock may be my problem. I am running WIN-98, I.E.-6.0 on a custom built system with a Pentium II processor, a 40 gig drive split + a 4 gig drive and 520 megs of ram. My net access is DSL through my local phone service, Bellsouth.net.
>
>MY PROBLEM:
>
>Over the past 3 months my access has continually gotten worse and I can no longer log on through my DSL connection or my dial up. I have been told that the problem may be with my winsock.DLL and I need to replace. I've told that it is not a simply matter of copying a file and I could not find anything on Microsoft's web site.
>
>ANY help would be appreciated.

I would suggest you borrow the id of someone else and arrange to use
it when you can be sure he won't be. Maybe??, you should also try
connecting on both lines in the middle of the night when the isps will
have unused capacity.

Because maybe it is not you.

I had low speeds while my girlfriend had high speeds with a lower
priced server (the public library, no less). But when I logged on to
her server (admittedly from a different phone in a different part of
town) I got low speeds too.

I'm only an end-user too (even though I program other things for a
living), and I too am interested in what it could mean to need a new
winsock.dll. Other people don't. There is an upgrade dun1.4 but I
think that has to do with ancillary stuff, features, and special
situations, not to the basic connection. I got it but it didn't
change the speed of my connections.

I looked inside my winsock.dll and it seems to say FileVersion
4.10.1998 and the same after the word ProductVersion. But what is
strange is that the date/time stamp on the file, the last write, is
yesterday at 2:12 PM. I didn't think dll's got updated. I had to
reinstall windows yesterday, probably about that time, but I didn't
think anything but new files got time stamped during an install.

What could be going on?


BTW, I finally went from 33333 to 48000 by bypassing my house's wiring
and going straight to the interface on the wall outside the house.

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