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Old January 24th, 2007, 07:14 PM
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Can't Get Windows Updates

A friend of mine lives in a very rural area and has been using dial-up for the last ten years,
with no problems other than slow.

Two weeks ago he signed for:
http://www.bamawisp.net/home.php
he can download pages but it some times pauses for about 20 seconds before the page loads.
So we checked his upload speed and it peaks from 4 to 10 with a download speed of about 151kbs.
which is low compared to my charter cable connection.

The big problem is now when he tries to get Windows Updates he gets this:


Went through all the Microsoft suggested fixes and nothing helps.
bamawisp.net seems to think it has to do with his low upload speed
and there trying figure out a way to increase it.
I was wondering if the low upload speed could really be the problem?

Any thoughts would would be appreciated.

XP Home
256meg RAM
2gig processor
128meg video card
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Old January 24th, 2007, 07:34 PM
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Hi buddy... there are quite a few suggestions as to a fix here.
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Old January 25th, 2007, 12:42 AM
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Thanks dammit for the response.

I'll take the page to my friends house tomorrow and try the fixes.
I'll let you know it turns out.
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Old January 27th, 2007, 04:59 PM
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Thanks dammit for the information but it turned out
to be SpyBot that was blocking. He said
after unchecking or removing a couple of items
he got all 65 updates.
Thanks Again
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