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You bet I'm calling Apple. This problem just happened to me today. The 3 year-old Terradyne (sp?) rented modem from Comcast started getting flaky with dropped packets, etc. The Comcast tech said it was old and I should swap it out for a new Motorola SB5101. I was getting 2-4 Megs (on an 8 Meg...

All great responses, give and take. Just what I was looking for to help spread a little (balanced) .Mac cheer. The winner is Chevy! Chevy had a good direct response and appears to be making good use of .Mac features. Excellent picture galleries, Michel. I will be activating my .Mac account...

Hi Mac jockeys, I am considering whether to activate .Mac after my free trial. The sign-up form asks who referred me, it looks like that person can get "20% off their annual .Mac renewal cost." So, in the next 24 hours, the thread-poster who gives me the best reason to pay $99 for a .Mac...

Jeez, half the stuff mentioned (window-list under icons, etc) is already there! The other stuff is ripe for third parties, where it should be. Win XP task bar is a chore in my opinion. Let's keep the clutter to a minimum and provide features via 3rd party for those folks with special needs (like...

Thanks everyone. I will experiment more with some new phone cords or other wall jacks. Maybe it is just an overly sensitive modem in the Powerbook. What's funny is that after one or two initial disconnects (between 5 and 15 mins following dial up) the connection becomes stable as a rock. Weird...

Of course I'll lose the dialup at my first opportunity. Unfortunately, that may be a couple years for cable, likely never for DSL (too many digital/analog conversions in the way, or something). As I said, no other non-OS X computers on either of my house lines have problems, only this OS X box...

I haven't seen my particular Internet Connect issue discussed. When I dial up, 90% of the time I get disconnected anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes into the session. Sometimes several disconnects will happen in a row, but eventually the connection remains stable for as long as I care to keep it...

Since I am severely bandwidth-challenged, but have two phone lines I very much could use a multilink PPP connection. I have explored Mac OS X 10.1 man page 'pppd' and found the following configuration switch described: mp Enables the use of PPP multilink; this is an alias for the...