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To: Zeddie88 who wrote (9278)	11/13/1999 12:16:00 AM
From: g_m10	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Just bought a new system and the video card <ATI RAGE 128 MAGNUM> cannot handle 1600x1200 resolution. I removed hardware acceleration and use only 256 colors with no success. Smaller resolutions OK. Any suggestions on a good card will be much appreciated. TIA gm

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (9278)	11/23/1999 5:45:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>I was thinking of trialing a DSL service but am fearful of what that will do to my configuration settings for the cable modem. ... I wish I could do this DSL test on my existing computer but want to know the feasibility of doing something like this. Sue, looks like you didn't get a direct response to this question, but I'm just catching up and may have missed something. To clarify your question, you are really asking about the feasibility of accessing two networks from the same computer. The two networks are the one provided by cable and the one provided by DSL. To be sure, these two networks both act as gateways to the same Internet, but you will still be sitting on two different subnets at the same time, one from cable, one from DSL. Is that feasible? Well, yes, in theory. In practice there are several pitfalls. I'll be glad to go into detail if you really want to know, but the bottom line is you need to know a fair amount about IP configuration, subnets, and routing to set things up. Also, you have to have fixed IP addresses from the providers of both networks or else things REALLY get complex. As a side issue, it's not so easy to "try" DSL, at least in my area. Maybe yours is better, but it took months for me to get DSL installed. Worth it, though, I gotta admit. Spots

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (9278)	11/23/1999 7:02:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

Well, my earlier answer to Sue's message shows the pitfall of responding before reading the rest of the thread. Sue, no matter how you might attempt to switch the physical wires, you still have to deal with the IP configuration. In fact, there's no need to switch the wires; you can run both cable and DSL into a hub and connect the hub to your PC. WARNING, like Wily, you will need to connect both DSL and cable to an uplink port on the hub or use a crossover cable. That means at least one crossover cable, as there's only one uplink port on most hubs. But the real issue will remain, which is the IP configuration of the PC. Again, if you get a fixed IP address from each vendor, it is possible to configure both simultaneously on one network card (in NT, anyhow - dunno about Win 98). But there is more to the configuration than just multiple IP addresses. You will learn a lot about IP routing tables to make it work. An alternative is to reconfigure TCP/IP and reboot each time you want to switch between cable and DSL. I would personally find this unacceptable. Spots