New DSL service is kicking my ass...

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Hey fellas, hope someone's got an answer to this one...

I just moved into a new apartment and got my internet reconnected. This time I supposedly got the fastest that they can offer, some DSL line that can supposedly download a 13gig movie in less than 10 minutes or something. It also apparently comes with a built in antivirus software package through the modem. Now, I have connected it to the computer that I have used for recording for the past 2 years, an AMD Athlon 64 running 2.4ghz, 1gig of ram, all that other good stuff. It has worked absolutely fine for Cubase and a load of plugins running within it.

Now, with the internet connected to it, there are starting to be problems. When I go to get online 9 times out of 10 I will get a popup message that internet explorer doesn't have enough memory or something like that and it just shuts down. I don't have any antivirus software loaded on this computer, but I don't think that should be an issue with the automatic stuff through the modem. Anyway, my internet is pretty slow compared to what I had at my house on an older computer, and I'm getting these weird messages about memory...

Anyone got any ideas on what could be an issue? I connected and installed it all myself, and I have my settings in windows optimized for recording (per musicxp)... I'm clueless and it's frustrating. All I want to do is be able to use 1 machine for both so I don't have to use my laptop for all of my internet stuff...
 
pikingrin said:
All I want to do is be able to use 1 machine for both so I don't have to use my laptop for all of my internet stuff...
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I've got an answer and you're not going to like it.

You can't have a satisfactory music setup and a '13gig movie in 10 minutes' internet setup on the same 1 gigabyte computer. Even if you up the ram to 4 gigs and set up separate partitions for music and internet on your hard drives you may still have problems.

Bite the bullet and use a separate computer for the internet and keep one strictly for music. It a good practice anyway and will help keep your music computer virus free.


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Yeah, that's what I kinda figured... :o

Thanks for the response!
 
...or do what I did and do drive swaps. I'm using the same "guts" if you will, and have two separate main hard drives that I swap in a swapable bay. I have a couple separate drives (swappable as well) for audio, and the main drives that I swap. One main drive has Windows XP Pro with all the "goodies", Internet, etc., the other drive has a stripped down, tweaked out Windows XP install, and is only used to run as a DAW (LAN disabled, very minimal running apps at boot).

It was a bit of work, but not any more work than putting together another PC for recording. This PC works for recording, and now it's a great dual purpose machine I use for work/play and music.
 
Or you could just set up a dual boot and just choose what install you want to load at BIOS.

I use the same PC for music and internet. I have a separate boot of windows for music which is stripped down. The network card is switched off. All the spangly visuals are switched off. Anti virus is switched off. Basically as few processes running as possible. The other boot is for internet, movies, games and all that crap. Since putting it all together, I have seen a gradual loss of performance on the internet boot, as you would expect. The DAW boot is still running as efficiently as the day I put it together.
 
ssscientist said:
I've got an answer and you're not going to like it.

You can't have a satisfactory music setup and a '13gig movie in 10 minutes' internet setup on the same 1 gigabyte computer.

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Absolutely not true.
 
I would start with some heavy duty antivirus/spyware scanning. There is no such thing as "antivirus in a modem" nor DSL that DL's 13 gigs in 10 minutes. If you are in fact getting out of memory errors and your Internet is crawling then chances are your machine is buried under spyware/adware or worse, a trojan has turn your box into a spambot
 
timthetortoise said:
Actually, UDSL can do 15 gigs in 10 minutes, so it's entirely possible.
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Unless that's what he has, which I doubt, there's no way he can download 13gig in 10 minutes from any regular dsl service provider. Even if so, there's still no impact of how well his DAW will perform unless he is downloading porn while trying to mix a song. Internet, games, porn and DAW can all peacefully coexist on the same machine provided you're not an idiot and get all full of spyware.
 
HangDawg said:
Unless that's what he has, which I doubt, there's no way he can download 13gig in 10 minutes from any regular dsl service provider. Even if so, there's still no impact of how well his DAW will perform unless he is downloading porn while trying to mix a song. Internet, games, porn and DAW can all peacefully coexist on the same machine provided you're not an idiot and get all full of spyware.
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Well yeah, but I was simply responding to "there is no such thing as DSL that downloads 13 gigs in 10 minutes."
 
timthetortoise said:
Well yeah, but I was simply responding to "there is no such thing as DSL that downloads 13 gigs in 10 minutes."
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and it is a response of a half wit since UDSL/ADSL2 exists only in labs and even if he did have a technology that does not yet exist commercially AND if it ran at the highest possible theoretical bandwidth of 100 mbps, it would still take 17.3 minutes to download something that large.

So before you go posting dumbass comments to make it look like you actually know what you what you are talking about, at least check your math
 
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