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Ryan October 1, 2007 at 10:49 pm

I like the site. Great job on the logo! It’s funny, I almost posted the same gif on my site. Great minds think alike you know.

Noddy May 6, 2008 at 9:42 pm

Hellz yeah! I agree 100%. The PocketPC/WindowsMobile OS was pooped out my Microsoft so long ago that it is stale and petrified. Not only is the OS ancient by today’s standards, but the hardware requirements are as well. 128 MEGABYTES of storage is all you get out of the box. Hey, 128mb was awesome back in 2002, but, you can’t even buy a 128 mb storage device these days because that low of capacity is no longer acceptable.

Dominic October 19, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I’m going to try this immediately.

KrAzE December 21, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I had the same problem with Grid. It thought it was a great idea to store its “flashback” feature on my C drive. This file was at minimum 1Gigglebit.

Blame microsoft however.. they are the ones who are initiating where the savegames are supposed to go with the new works with windows crap. They still shouldnt have migrated content like they did.

I hate having save games in my documents personally. Most of the time for older games I just modify the registry.

KrAzE February 7, 2009 at 2:50 pm

I remember a digg article saying google search will be hit this year because of MSN LIVE Search is really starting to help out the businesses by offering deals to buyers.

KrAzE February 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm

steampowered.com’s forums has a windows and a linux server tutorials for both HL2 and HL1 Servers. Ive actually got to agree, they royally fucked up the directory structure in the new one. A simply addons folder, maps, sound, and the main directory was all you needed for HLGold.

Same with q3.

KrAzE February 14, 2009 at 6:58 pm

hacker!

……………………….

KrAzE February 14, 2009 at 7:01 pm

thinks*
………

KrAzE February 21, 2009 at 12:47 pm

hahaha.

I formatted my urls as simple title only. This rocks for finding posts too.. just type what you thought it was and the php will redirect to the closest thing.

Kanten March 3, 2009 at 1:08 pm

http://www.x-clamp-fix.com/catalog/product_info.php?info=p5_X-Clamp-Fix-DIY-Kit.html

Brandon March 31, 2009 at 3:53 pm

You might try this:

http://gethuman.com/customer-service/Acer_Computer_937.html

I’ve used this site before and it’s kind of hit or miss. The page says updated Feb 2009 so you might have some luck with it.

– B

Brandon April 4, 2009 at 9:02 pm

LOL! OMG you are like a battered wife taking back her husband…”HTC/WinMo still loves me! They didn’t mean it! You don’t know them like I do!!!”

😉

– B

Ulrika April 15, 2009 at 7:17 am

I bought Acer 9920G laptop 3.5 months ago and was generally quite pleased with it so far.

However, last week and switched it on and got this message upon load up:
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable.
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM.
Operating System not found.

Well, I got a bit worries, googled this on my other computer, some other forums mentioned that it could be due to the Hard Disk failure.

Anyway, I took it back to the shop where I brought it from, the techy guy powered the laptop and it worked fine (???). He said it might be due to some loose wire inside that got back into place whilst I was carrying it to the shop.

I was quite relieved, took the laptop back home, powered it and got the same error message as before!!! I unplugged the whole thing again, carried it around the house and it was working again (just).

I then called Acer support line and spoke to the rudest man on Earth. I explained what happened and he said it was due to the loose hard drive. I asked if I could send the laptop back to them so someone could have a look at it and fix the loose hard drive. He said I would have to pay for this because the laptop was working at this current moment. I told him that the laptop was only 3.5 months old and still under warranty and I should not pay for fixing any manufacturing defects. He then said that it was not Acer’s fault because I did not buy the laptop from them but from the shop. When I said how it was shop’s fault that they receive faulty products from the manufacturer, he told me that he could not help me because “operating system going missing” is a software issue and nothing to do with Acer.

This is the most appalling customer service I have ever witnessed – it’s absolutely shocking!

Shaun Oleson April 26, 2009 at 5:45 pm

I’m upgrading from an AT&T Tilt to the HTC Fuze this week and my wife already has the iPhone. I have to say with her iPhone, there are a couple issues that tend to bother me. One of which is removing apps from the device. You have to connect it to a computer, delete the apps via itunes and then re-sync the device. When trying out new apps, this is a bit annoyiong.

Second, is the having to close the application every time you want to open another. If I am playing a game or browsing the internet and I get a text message, I don’t want to close the game, find the messaging app, open it, read the message, close the messaging app and re-open the game/safari.

Good article, it just re-assures me that the Fuze was a good choice for my needs. Unfortunately I don’t have feedback on the Fuze experience yet, but WinMo isn’t bad if you clean up your install and configure it as suits your needs.

KrAzE May 8, 2009 at 12:32 am

Its in true fashon for ryan to have a broken pc.

Wheres your rss feed? Do you have it through feedburner?

Ariel May 8, 2009 at 12:54 pm

I’ve had the same experience… Although with a system that *was* under warranty. Had a Seagate hard drive on which the firmware was bad (eventually Seagate resolved the issue, with no hassle).

I never was able to talk to a real human, the automated phone system mentioned above gave me a dead end *with* a good S/N under warranty, and all I ever got back from the “email” support were canned responses asking if the hard drive was plugged in.

I will never recommend Acer to a single client ever again. Ever.

Peter May 18, 2009 at 10:05 am

Meh, just tried Windows 7 too and I fully agree with the article. Windows 7 is really something that I can dislike wholeheartedly.
I’m one of those that didn’t go from XP to vista, why? I didn’t see the need to and I also just recently went from 2000 to XP (1.5 years ago I think).
I must admit that coming from XP to Win7, and having had some experiences with Vista, I’d say that Win7 is a step in the wrong direction… sometimes it seems that progress isn’t always a step forward but quite the opposite

– Peter

Sabu May 19, 2009 at 11:50 pm

Thanks a loooooooooooooooooooooooot -:) I was looking for it for the same problem. Cheers – 🙂

Tom June 11, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Direct line to Level 2 tech support For Acer, Gateay and Emachines
254-298-4000

Brandon June 18, 2009 at 12:35 am

I haven’t played it that far yet, but I agree they did a great job on the game. Visually, it’s awesome. The voice acting is great, even though it’s a little hard to hear sometimes (could just be my loud ass gaming rig). Over all excellent game. I hope they introduce a multiplayer option for the PC in the future.

Jacob June 22, 2009 at 3:06 am

If you think some of those are bad you should try to ‘clean’ a brand new Sony Vaio. I bet they can hold a candle, or some other light producing device, to those Acer and Lenovo machines.

Brandon June 29, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Only one way to do it: Office Space style.

Brandon June 30, 2009 at 12:47 am

I couldn’t agree more! I was struggling to find a BDE (Borland Database Engine) installer at work today, but that (and a lot of other Borland software) has been bought/sold/traded for livestock so many times that’s been lost to the bit bucket. Luckily we still had the old stuff from 1999 on one of our shared drives.

Hit me up if you need a 16-bit version of Netscape from 1994 🙂

– B

Rae July 4, 2009 at 1:42 pm

Next week, I’m getting a new phone and, of course, I’ve narrowed it down to the iPhone and the Fuze.

Right now, I am leaning considerably towards the Fuze. I like the look of it, I like the hardware keyboard, and so far I’ve heard no major objections to the device. However, having played around with my boyfriend’s iPhone and read through some concerns regarding the Fuze, I do have some potential issues.

I’m fifteen so, of course, I’ve got limited access to tweaking. I could figure some of it out, I’m sure, but for the most part, I’d have no idea what I’m doing.

With the risk of sounding like a complete idiot – what’s ROM, and what does it do for the phone?

I am also a bit worried about the internet capabilities. Phones that take five minutes to load a page, have no HTML, and then force you to search for another fifteen minutes to find what you want because the text is all bunched up in one section make me absolutely crazy. I haven’t the patience for it. How do the webpages on the Fuze compare to that of the iPhone? I’ve found the iPhone’s Safari browser to be very useable.

The final concern of mine regards the music player. I looked at a Youtube tutorial, and it said that you had to browse your music by album – is this true? I know it has 32G of expendable memory, but I’m sure that gets used up rather quickly by messaging, internet, and apps. How much music, on average, can one fit onto it?

Thanks so much!
Rae

Andrew July 19, 2009 at 7:40 am

Fantastic Nick,
I spent some time today configuring NTPSync on my Untangle (LINUX)Server only to find that the issue was with the Domain controller which is all sorted now thanks to you

Once again much appreciated Nick

Brandon August 6, 2009 at 12:42 pm

I’m still on NOD32 with Vista SP2 and Win 7 RC and haven’t had any problems. I’ll follow up if that changes.

– B

KrAzE August 7, 2009 at 8:37 pm

DHL steps on their packages. I went out to meet one last christmas and he was going through his packages looking for mine, stepping on boxes in the back. I asked why there were no shelves and he told me it was a new truck and they didnt install them yet….wow.

Brandon August 7, 2009 at 8:54 pm

LOL. Guess that’s partly why DHL Express closed up shop in the USA.

There have been several times I’ve had to go to the UPS Springfield location off of S Dirksen parkway because I knew there would be no way I’d get my package by the time I wanted it.

– B

KrAzE August 11, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Odd shapes usually get the run around at the sorting facility. Next time have the person you buy from actually use a box or an envalope. Envalopes go through a seperate sorter.

Hugo August 20, 2009 at 11:33 pm

I’ve been trying all thiese steps but I got a message that reads “no cdrom found”. I’ll try tomorrow disconecting the FDD and CDROM, I’ll only leave the USB drive,(Dell Dimension c521, only Sata Ports )

I’m want to install ipcop in a new computer that has 4 GB on RAM Because that current one, only has 2 GB, my network is around 250 computers and for any reason the memory and cache got 97 % of use and then web proxy stop and internet goes down
Any other Idea ?

thank you very much
Hugo Perales ( hiperat@yahoo.com.mx )

David Lee September 16, 2009 at 11:22 am

Does virtualbox work in windows 7 home preium?

David Lee September 16, 2009 at 11:27 am

For virtual pc 2007, maybe you should try the backward comb shortcut assignment. That might fix the problem.

Brandon Allen September 17, 2009 at 1:27 pm

not by much. 7 is based off of the vista kernel like xp was based off the 2k kernel. Also you can use vista drivers in window 7.

KrAzE September 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

And apparently it forgot me…but when I recreated the account all my icons were still saved.

emelde October 25, 2009 at 8:04 pm

its just another shit microsoft os. back to xp if it has to be windows

Quest October 26, 2009 at 6:58 am

Yes, it has it’s little quarks and annoyances, but there is no reason to avoid it. It is a great, fantastic, VERY stable OS. Anyone who claims otherwise probably doesn’t understand computers and is scared of change.

billy wobble October 27, 2009 at 9:45 am

Some time ago i was given a new operating system from microsoft to install. It was in a fancy box and i was very enthusiastic as the last operating system was so good, windows xp. I had heard it had native dvd burning, and installed faster. First it complained that my partitions were too small, but soon after, i was quickly on the way to installing a shiny new operating system. It seemed to install very quickly. Then i clicked the start button … as first i thought it was a joke, then i thought i had got a virus, then i realised, microsoft had completely given up. What i installed was the most tragic sorry piece of shite i’d ever come across. What was this total catastrophe ? Well, needless to say, i never adopted it and only used it for compatibilty testing our software releases. Several years later, a more sober microsoft made a successor available to much fanfair. Obviously they would have done a lot to fix what was wrong with that debacle called vista. I cautiously installed the new operating system, known as windows 7. New desktop background. Share limit up to 20 from 10, nice. That was it. Everything else was the same old shite. Sluggish, multitudes of button clicking to find the unfindable. What was the point ? Why didnt they just stay in bed and not waste people’s time ? Total catastrophe #2. Whoever set the XP service lifespan to 2018 has known for a long time what we just discovered, and given a three year release schedule, windows 8,9 and 10 will be equally tragic …

Russ October 30, 2009 at 8:57 am

With Ubuntu gaining popularity and Apple gaining market share, MS can ill afford to release yet another mediocre operating system.

‘It’s not their job to make sure their computer is secure’

– Yes it is, but MS have no idea how to achieve this with a fundamentally insecure OS, hence these stupid features.

Never has there been a better time to switch operating systems – Linux is no longer only suitable for geeks, my Nan now uses it quite happily.

Francis Whittier November 1, 2009 at 8:19 pm

What sewer this this dirty rat crawl out of. A shit for brains idiot!

Solarstone November 2, 2009 at 9:15 pm

seriously, neither vista nor 7 are step in right direction, XP was fine because it was light and yet very stable and usable for both work and entertainment, vista and 7 being built on top of .NET bloatware code made them stupid – literarly stupid and bloated, they can be 2x secure than XP but that does not excuse them from being resource hog and totaly stupid to use

i personaly hate in both vista and 7 that they REQUIRE dual core processors and atleast 2 GB of RAM so user can normaly use those piece of crap OS-es with their full “features”

i tried to run 7 on single core 2.8 Ghz intel with 1 GB of RAM and all i got was choking whenever i (JUST !) watched a movie
seeing DWM eats 10-20% CPU, movie player ~60% and rest of 42 proccesses the rest, so it was overall at 100% for single movie watching… just terrible

n00b November 6, 2009 at 3:43 am

Thanx a L000t!
I’ll try to fix this with junction on WindowsXP

Very well written !

Brandon November 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Great tip!

– B

Mike November 18, 2009 at 5:02 pm

agreed, seen the commercial so i was skeptical, found out you need a stupid case for device to be charged, what a crock of shit, otherwise you have to use a cord. Wasn’t the point of this product not to use a cord? I don’t know if its just me, but this idea just seems plain retarded.

KrAzE December 5, 2009 at 7:05 pm

I am using Avira now per your recommendation here. I keep telling it to ignore this specific file I have, but it forgets after every boot… Unless this file gets regenerated on every boot.

But it did find ONE trojan on my machine after being without antivirus for 5 months. I was hoping for 666 again.

Stefan December 14, 2009 at 7:07 am

tested on win7 enterprise and works great. 1x.

Rachel December 18, 2009 at 10:20 pm

😀 Thank you so much! Works like a charm!

Gary December 30, 2009 at 3:26 am

Will it actually close the program that is currently running and I can’t turn off!!

Dan January 1, 2010 at 1:49 pm

Thanks for the help Nick.

First, I’m not entirely computer illiterate but when it comes to this type of issue, I’m usually at a loss. Here’s what I’ve done to date and I still can’t get rid of the damned keyboard.

1. I’ve disabled the Tablet PC Components
2. In the Ease of Access folder under the “Use the Computer Without a Mouse or Keyboard”, I uncheck the “Use the On-Screen Keyboard” option but when I then exit the screen and go back, the box is checked again.
3. I’d like to use the “Utilman” file you’ve made available but as AG has come across above, I don’t have permission to change current file properties and I’m again at a loss with the “NTSF ACL”.

Any other advice you’d be able to provide would be a great help in dealing with Microsoft’s bullshit.

Dan January 1, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Thanks for the quick response Nick. Now that I’ve changed permissions, etc, I’ve renamed the original Utilman file to Utilman.exe.old and have downloaded your file. I’ve saved it to my system32 folder and ran the file successfully but the fucking keyboard still shows up whenever I load my user account. Any other thoughts?

KrAzE January 3, 2010 at 6:50 pm

I refuse to get a smaller laptop. 18 inches is heavy but worth the lug!

http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/09/newspaper-laptop-sleeve.html

Brandon January 23, 2010 at 1:00 pm

I didn’t know Personas was getting built into 3.6. It’s kind of neat, but, since I’ve had it, it seems like they update it all the time. I wonder if FF 3.6 will need to be updated just as often, just for Personas.

Unit 193 January 23, 2010 at 6:07 pm

formatting won’t work so…

if id = “atom(Accessibility)”
button
width = “38rp”
height = “28rp”
padding=”rect(0,0,0,0)”
content = “resbmp(11118,2,-1,0,0,0,1)”
accname=”resstr(11411)”
accdesc=”resstr(11411)”
borderthickness = “rect(4rp, 2rp, 4rp, 2rp)”
background = “resbmp(11123,7,-1,0,0,1,1)”
bordercolor=”gray”
borderstyle=”raised”
/
if keyfocused = “true”
button
borderthickness = “rect(4rp, 2rp, 4rp, 2rp)”
background = “resbmp(11119,7,-1,0,0,1,1)”
bordercolor=”windowtext”
borderstyle=”solid”
/
/if
if mousefocused = “true”
button
borderthickness = “rect(4rp, 2rp, 4rp, 2rp)”
background = “resbmp(11120,7,-1,0,0,1,1)”
bordercolor=”windowtext”
borderstyle=”solid”
/
/if
if keyfocused = “true” mousefocused = “true” pressed = “false”
button
borderthickness = “rect(4rp, 2rp, 4rp, 2rp)”
background = “resbmp(11121,7,-1,0,0,1,1)”
bordercolor=”windowtext”
borderstyle=”solid”
/
/if
if pressed = “true”
button
borderthickness = “rect(4rp, 2rp, 4rp, 2rp)”
background = “resbmp(11122,7,-1,0,0,1,1)”
bordercolor=”windowtext”
borderstyle=”sunken”
/
/if
/if

Unit 193 January 24, 2010 at 4:33 pm

Can you send me the authui from Win7 so I can take a quick peak at it and see what they changed?

Unit 193 January 24, 2010 at 6:47 pm

Either I typed my e-mail wrong or the e-mail was deleted because of the .dll. Also I forgot to ask you to also send WINDOWS\System32\en-US\authui.dll.mui? (both in a zip or 7z)

Geekilized February 11, 2010 at 10:28 pm

I am really pissed about this too. I hope they fix this soon because I like the personas but I want to keep my Noia 2 Extreme theme.

Monimonika February 12, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Oooh! And the experimental Hide Caption addon let’s me get rid of the entire Title bar! You can have the title of the window you’re in display in the Status Bar (if you have one).

It also provides an alternative button for the Min/Max/Close, but I prefer to use the ones in the Toolbar Buttons addon because they take up less vertical space.

So, compared to the your 5 rows (including Title Bar), I have only 3 rows (4 if you count the thin Status Bar). I also have a vertical column for more buttons thanks to All-In-One Sidebar.

Monimonika February 13, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Hi Nick,

Yeah, I understand. We like things in our own ways. Thank you for responding.

Hope Mozilla will make Personas and Themes compatible again. Until then, I’ll stick with the old Firefox until I’m forced to hack around in 3.6.

Just to show off, here’s a link to what my browser currently looks like:

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7726/onmy1280x800screen.png

Ali February 15, 2010 at 12:50 am

I get the following error:
C:\dd>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FC8A-C2EE

Directory of C:\dd

02/15/2010 11:52 AM .
02/15/2010 11:52 AM ..
12/06/2003 03:50 PM 18,325 Copying.txt
02/26/2007 08:50 PM 342,016 dd.exe
02/26/2007 08:19 PM 4,319 ddchanges.txt
01/22/2010 02:01 AM 54,411,264 ipcop-1.9.11-install-usb-fdd.i486.img
4 File(s) 54,775,924 bytes
2 Dir(s) 11,514,855,424 bytes free

C:\dd>dd if=ipcop-1.9.11-install-usb-fdd.i486.img of=\\.\J: bs=1k

rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
Error opening output file: 32 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

KrAzE February 22, 2010 at 9:43 pm

Seriously this is what kept me from using firefox as my primary browser back when everyone loved it.. I dont want all that clutter.. 2 bars is almost too much for me. Even in IE I have all the buttons small setting and no words except for the title.

Hell, if I could I would turn off this stupid search area I would be a happy man.. despite IE’s many flaws.

Andrew February 26, 2010 at 5:29 pm

I thought about going to UPS Saturday but guess what?! Not open!!! How very considerate!!! Awesome place. Awesome!

Brandon March 5, 2010 at 10:50 pm

Great tip. I wish Flash wasn’t everywhere so we could disable it, too.

– B

Brandon March 7, 2010 at 9:44 pm

Operating Systems that annoy you….

Clearly, they copied that “x hours ago” from Facebook.

😀

– B

Ian March 10, 2010 at 2:42 am

thx man just tried this on my pc with windows7 Ultimate 64-bit OS, can tell you it works
cheers

Mickey March 18, 2010 at 8:15 am

I just used ResHacker to open authui.dll, searched for “accessibility” and found this:
. I changed the layout position to “none” and the button disappeared.

brian March 21, 2010 at 12:07 pm

wanda sykes is terrible!!! and yes she has the most annoying voice ever!! i hate it when i see her on tv,. the only reason she will get ratings is because she is on saturday night at a good time when nothing else is on,. hopefully she wont be on tv much longer cause i cannot stand her,. when i see her on tv i go” oh god ,not her again”.. i hate her so much i made the effort to google search “wanda sykes sucks” lol,lol,lol!!!

Monimonika March 21, 2010 at 4:26 pm

Okay, just a quick note.

Every time I change my persona to something else, my browser asks me to restart. Don’t restart. Instead, go to Themes and reselect your favorite theme (Personas tries to change it to the Default) and the restart message goes away.

Mike Burns April 8, 2010 at 6:04 am

Nick – sorry to hear about the problems you have experienced. Would you email me or call me with your contact information and I’ll be happy to assist.

Thanks.

Mike Burns
General Manager
573-703-5981

Brandon April 10, 2010 at 12:05 pm

Awesome story! Another great example of how customers and companies are using the Internet to connect in ways that never would have taken tons of phone calls and endless frustration in the past.

– B

bnit April 17, 2010 at 10:17 pm

she’s an idiot. thought she was ok until i heard her call everyone that disagreed with President Obama a racist. BTW I support Obama but do not support hasty generalzations!

John April 23, 2010 at 1:31 pm

Close explorer altogether, it will work if you don’t have anything showing the files you are using open. (at least for me – same error and closing explorer fixed it)

Alex Batterbee April 28, 2010 at 2:11 pm

Really really helpful

hot rod May 1, 2010 at 5:41 pm

i can’t stand her either..didn’t really have a problem with her till the new commercials about calling things gay when you really mean they are stupid..how GAY!!!not wishing harm on the silly bitch,just wish i could watch a show on t.v. without her bull-dike looking ass interupting with some hollow attempt for more attention..arrgghh how annoying…i’m not being sexist,racist,or a homophobe…just can’t stand this worthless hack…PLEASE, NETWORK T.V. STATIONS TAKE NOTICE AND FORCE THIS HORRIBLE “GAY” FARCE INTO AN EARLY RETIREMENT…

June May 4, 2010 at 12:24 pm

Wal-Mart also could get rid of the “# items sold” line. Unless the company assumes its customers don’t know how to count.

Noone May 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm

Wow now that’s damage control!

Lasse Dollerup May 12, 2010 at 2:02 am

Thats was nice 😀

Been looking for this 😀

Thanks a bunch.

John June 17, 2010 at 12:38 pm

Nick,
No, we are in the Anna area. Still waiting for an HD DVR. Talked to someone at Taylorsville in CS, she said it should be installed Tuesday or this week, but nothing yet. They were to send one of the new ones down this way. I was at the local office on Wednesday, the girl said she didn’t have a work order showing. The installer was there also, heading out to install HD units. Probably mine.

Ben July 1, 2010 at 12:23 pm

Thank god someone agrees with me, I got the DV6T a week ago and it was as you said, unusable. After being on the phone with HP Tech Support I found out that it’s just a shitty piece of hardware and that they don’t even have a replacement one with normal buttons.
As it is, after a long battle with customer support trying to find out if any of their models have a different touchpad (there are maybe three, all of them being terribly underpowered) I returned it yesterday and purchased a Dell.

Do they not realize how bad it is that they put it on 90% of their models?

kabeer July 5, 2010 at 12:35 am

microsoft has a tradition of entering into new markets at a very later stage and simply copy technologies from other major players.

this is exactly what they did in 1980s during the initial stages of PC era,
and in 1990s during the evolution of internet and now in the mobile era.

Tom July 8, 2010 at 6:04 pm

Glad I found this. Great advice. I recently got bitch slapped by a Java malware exploit on IE that cost me a day of work. Wish I had read this beforehand.

SMH@HP July 18, 2010 at 8:53 pm

i ordered a new HP DM4 last month..specs were great, had high hopes for the laptop

and then i experienced the touchpad, that shit is the worst design ever! i tried so hard to get used to it and modify the settings…its just too annoying

i had to return it, turns out all of the new HP consumer laptops have this shitty design…i cant believe the designers at HP let this bullshit make it to production..im so disappointed with HP

John Derrick McMillen July 25, 2010 at 8:19 pm

Now wait a minute here. This guy on this rant isn’t alone here. There are OTHER customers on this service suffering from the same crappy service from this company. How about ACTUALLY FIXING your problems with customer service and the lack of skill to properly run your network? That might be nice in contrast to picking off the one guy with the guts to go public (and make it high in Google search rankings for Newwave Communications). This guy had the knowledge (and skill) to figure out your problems for you. So, this guy is happy now. But look what it took for him to get what you advertise. This makes me laugh but it also makes my skin crawl. So, should the rest of us now contact Mike Burns, THE General Manager at 573-703-5981. Hmmmm… where’s my phone?

Oh, and by the way, your website has been offline for three days. Right at the time my bill is due. I ORDERED an even additional add-on for HD channels which I can’t figure out the total price because I can’t get on the website.

beck July 26, 2010 at 6:55 am

Yeah I thought she was alright until recently when she got her show. She is among that stupid group of people who are on the “just because he’s black, you disagree” bandwagon. He’s not black; he’s biracial like me. if he doesn’t acknowledge that he’s biracial than he’s an idiot.

Matt July 30, 2010 at 11:31 pm

Also do you know how to enlarge the “User” icon that’s on the logon screen?

Matt July 31, 2010 at 12:10 am

EDIT: Found out what I had done wrong. You need to rename the file from utilman to Utilman(with the first letter capitalized. Works fantastic now!

Jonathon August 11, 2010 at 10:01 am

I had to buy a 7 equipped laptop 2 months ago, because my XP one died 🙁
With all the bagging of Vista, I had expected that they had developed 7 off the back of XP. But no, it is shit – your gripe here is just one of many things I absolutely hate about my new computer. All of them Windows based. And no drivers are available to roll the machine back to XP – arrrgh!

Jonathon August 11, 2010 at 10:21 am

I’m with you on this one – Windows 7 is frustrating as all hell!

Bugsbunny August 20, 2010 at 4:46 pm

Hi I got an HP dv6t Laptop today and i even did not like the touchpad. the buttons are so hard I had an old dell inspiron 6400 and the touchpad rocked. the buttons are so smooth and there was side scrolling also..The over all laptop seems ok..but the touchpad sucks..

WhatcomWeb August 20, 2010 at 10:59 pm

Mine is about to go back, I tried to give it a chance, but the new touch pad is awful. Can’t use if for anything.

Sam August 22, 2010 at 7:29 pm

I have been having the same problem with the touchpad. There is a fix on the HP website:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02445227&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=4221638. I have downloaded and installed the new driver and, so far, it seems like a big improvement.

wendy August 25, 2010 at 6:53 am

This worked for me as well but I would like the birthdays to be visible on the month view rather than having to view the day to see them. My tasks show as blue dots, birthdays should be similar. Is there a setting I missed?

Luca September 1, 2010 at 2:07 pm

Thank you for your post I have tried several time but my brithday that i have on my gmail contact DON’T appear in my nexus one….it’s super strange because all look fine…

someone has the same problem here?

Sune September 3, 2010 at 5:11 am

Luca, I had the same problem – then I followed these instructions and made it work:

http://androidforums.com/incredible-tips-tricks/83350-how-sync-contacts-birthdays-calendar.html

Basically, it’s about removing and then readding the function in your phone’s calendar. I hope it’ll work for you too.

Still, it seems to me the syncing is not fully developed. First, for some reason I have to add the birthdays via the web interface – when I add the birthdays on my phone’s calendar (HTC Legend), the are not synced to my google contacts (when everything else is). Second, I can’t just add new birthdays and see them in my phone’s calendar. I then need to do the back-and-forth operation (removing and readding) over again, and then the new birthdays appear in my calendar. I hope Google will fix this soon, so I don’t have to rely on my brain to remember birthdays 🙂

Tim September 6, 2010 at 8:21 pm

I too have had noting but problems since New Wave took. I used to have both their cable tv and internet service but ending up dropping the tv due to it constantly going out and there unwillingness to fix it. I still use their internet service but i have had the same issue for over 2 years and so far i am no closer to getting it fixed than i was 2 years ago. My service is either so slow you can’t use it or it is down. The last 2 time they actually came out they changed the modem assuring me that would fix it and as i tried to explain to them that is not the problem. If they show up and the service is actually working they just say, “well it is working now so we can’t help you now” , now that is some great service. They are supposed to be here some time tomorrow but as usual they couldn’t give me a time frame. The only reason i still use them is that where i live they are the only provider but i was told that is no longer the case so i will investigate it more this week. If there is another option i know alot of people that will be dropping them very quickly.

Dmitry September 12, 2010 at 7:34 am

Hey Nick, I also have a green “PC Sync” calendar tab in my Calendar on my phone. What is this? I don’t have any visible events even when I have this calendar checked. Thanks for you time.

Rahul September 30, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Oh god. I got the dv6t yesterday. I never such a hard time setting up a damn laptop. The touch pad is ridiculous. It is the worst one I have used. I wanted to throw the laptop against the wall by the time I was done. I was going to buy another laptop for work. But now I am going to return the one I have and get a Dell. HP you are going to loose a shit load of business if you don’t fix this problem.

Jon October 10, 2010 at 7:14 pm

Wow, I’ve been looking for this functionality for years (even before Android came along) and didn’t know it could do this until now. Thanks SOOO much!!

Kanten October 12, 2010 at 2:02 pm

It’s the lead singer probably getting killed in a movie.

akjwhd ahwoudh October 14, 2010 at 9:23 pm

1. install theme and persona
2. select persona, restart
3. select theme, restart
4. goto about:config
set lightweightThemes.isThemeSelected to true, restart
5. vualya
6. wait 4 fkin mozzi teams repair these superior extensions to right way

tested on 4.0b8/linux

Monimonika October 20, 2010 at 5:51 pm

My persona setup (see previous comments) has gone belly-up 🙁

My Classic Compact theme background stays gray.

Even if I allow a restart and go to “Default Theme”, I get a solid neon color for the background (which definitely does NOT look like the persona I chose).

Uninstalling the modified Persona xpi makes no difference, and the background either stays gray, or I get the neon color (different neon color per persona, apparently) again.

ARRRGGGGHHHH!!

I should probably try out the setup again on a new profile (I have about 40 other add-ons), but will do so when I eventually feel motivated.

Martin November 9, 2010 at 7:49 am

Thank you!
I think a “newbie guide” for Android should be a great thing.

Monimonika November 11, 2010 at 2:46 pm

Made a new profile and my setup is now working again. Don’t know what happened in my previous one, but there seems to be no conflicts with other add-ons that I had in my old profile.

Can’t wait for Firefox 4 to come out with Panorama (*drool*).

John December 4, 2010 at 5:50 am

Couldn’t agree more.I purchased a DV7-4004tx to replace my DV6-2114tx.I hated the touch pad so much I swapped it’s 8gb of mem for my 4gb and off loaded it.

lovelylady December 4, 2010 at 4:50 pm

But hey I guess they would be great to get rich off of, crooks can easily send a package, put insuarance on it and 9 times out of 10 UPS would loose it, and the shipper can just collect the shipping money. I mean that sounds like a good scheme for a crimanal and it’s almost granteed they will loose it.

jtilley December 6, 2010 at 12:13 pm

Time for round 3 for me!
Once again I get unuseable internet during peak hours. Ping times that are 300ms+ with 4+ dropped packets a min. Last two times I’ve had to diagnose the problem myself to keep them from sending a tech out just to say “uhhh i can’t fix that”. They’ve cost me over $1k in time off from work to meet people who never come or who can’t fix anything. Problem is network congestion and bottlenecking at the backbone. To me, it is fraud to market 15mb internet when a provider can even competently offer a 2mb connection.

Fran December 18, 2010 at 1:55 pm

update .. birthday shows up on google calendar but not in the andriod calendar app..:(

White--Hawk December 30, 2010 at 3:16 pm

I’m right there with you. I have been using Vista for a while, and just moved to Win7 on my machine a few days ago (Christmas present from the missus). The media player was the first thing that leapt out at me.

Fugly as sin!

The shame of it is that Vista’s look was just about perfect – I’m already shoe-horning version 11 back in. *shrug*

Brian January 2, 2011 at 11:03 pm

The internet speeds that New Wave communications claim to offer are not even close to the speeds that you get. I’m supposed to be getting 12 meg and the closest to that that i get is maybe around 4. During peak hours I only get around 1 meg and sometimes less. I can’t understand how a company like this can stay in business.

Brandon January 8, 2011 at 3:33 pm

Nice! I don’t know if I could pull off a Photo 52 project…more like a Photo “Whenever I’m not feeling too lazy” project 😉

Brandon January 16, 2011 at 4:34 pm

Nice shot! 🙂

– B

Amanda January 17, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Newwave has been nothing but a complete headache for me since October.
The channels blank out constantly and when they come back, the audio/visual is out of sync. I called I don’t remember how many times to get it fixed without any progress. Then when they finally agreed to send someone to my house “Tuesday between 8 and 10,” surprise! No one showed up. Then I called to complain about it (and about having missed out on college class hours over it) and they told me 1) that no one was in the area at that time when a Newwave van was parked at my neighbors, so close I could literally see it from my house and 2) that they had scheduled someone to come “on the 20th from 3-5,” which is funny since no one told me that and I wouldn’t be home on the 20th from 3-5.
I was also told my bill would be credited for 2 months for all the problems I had, which was great until my cable was turned of due to non-payment of a bill I was told I’d never have.
Needless to say I am more than fed up. I called Friday, paid what I apparently owe so as not to hurt my credit and put in an order for cancellation at the end of this month. We’re moving in February and I had planned on taking Newwave’s service with me and adding phone and internet to it had they done anything, anything at all to fix these issues. But nope. So now my business and my money will be going to Windstream. Something I should have done a long time ago.

james42519 February 3, 2011 at 5:30 am

i haven’t really had trouble with newwave in somerset ky and when i do i can get it fixed calling them usually. i have 10 megabit and actually get that or better sometimes. sure it goes lower sometimes but not enough to effect using it. only thing i think could change is the upload speed. .36 megabit is kinda slow now. i have the cable too but i don’t use a cable box. onyl have basic and extended cable and cables goes to the tv. guess living in the city helps with this being closer to where ti comes from.

james42519 February 4, 2011 at 12:55 am

guess i am lucky then.
it is between these too but usually closer to 9 or 10 megabit.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1141965469.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1141964494.png

pingtest
http://www.pingtest.net/result/33807808.png

are you using the Motorola sb5100 too?

Trevor February 7, 2011 at 12:11 am

I had an HP G60 and the touchpad is very good, the buttons are not apart of the touch pad, and are separated with a ridge so that your fingers don’t inadvertently slide onto and press the buttons. I recently used a friend’s new HP and it had a black trackpad with the buttons built in, oh my god, what a terrible piece of shit, I was blown away. I’m actually blown away at how shitty most trackpads are. The old school dell’s were almost the best, they’ve actually got worse and worse as the years have gone on… all they need is something simple with better software.

Boomer February 8, 2011 at 10:19 am

Leave it to Microsoft to take 15 years to develop an actually viable, stable product that at least works (NTBackup) – then discontinue it and replace it with the joke that is 2008 Windows Server Backup.

It’s shit like this that makes me hope the zombie hordes of hackers and virus-writers destroy them.

Rafael February 13, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Very cool tip, thanks!!

Brandon March 6, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Great pic! What were your f-stop, ISO, & shutter speed? Give it a try with a small aperture, lowish ISO, and low shutter speed (a second or longer). Should produce a neat ghosty effect.

– B

June March 6, 2011 at 10:56 pm

I like this. Personally, I would crop the top of the photo so that the trees are no longer visible. It would give it an abstract feel.

Bjorn March 7, 2011 at 2:38 pm

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for a long time ago. Should be just a tick within the Android calender.

Brian Bell April 11, 2011 at 7:39 pm

Awesome!!!! Worked like a charm. Thank you!

Tim April 15, 2011 at 6:55 pm

I think what Gary on 12.30.09 was trying to ask about is the problem I am having. I was playing around with Ease of Access to see what it did. Immediately after doing that, my screen colors and text changed to something I do not want and have been unable to get rid of. The boxes are unchecked and the computer has been restarted, but I have same overly-white and different-looking funny screen. Any ideas?

Thai April 16, 2011 at 5:58 pm

I got a dv7 about two months ago, and I have agree this touch pad is so terrible afwul. It’s so annoy and unpleasant to use to a point I don’t want to recommend anyone to buy HP laptops.

Just this touch pad which makes HP laptops look bad…but I don’t think they have learned a lesson.

Carol April 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm

where did the birthday cake come from next to the date please

heather June 9, 2011 at 11:14 pm

I appear to have the same problem as Ariz I applied the changes and want to reverse it. is there a way i can turn back my computer to restore settings from a previous day? sorry if this seems like a lame question but this is my first blogging experience and I am vintage in age

Ron June 25, 2011 at 11:22 pm

I had two sites with iPower a year ago and they were CONSTANTLY getting hacked. It was ridiculous, like every 3-4 months. And of course iPower blamed me. So I switched because iPower sucks. Now no more hacked sites and I’m happy.

Brandon July 4, 2011 at 12:41 am

Great shot! The trails are nice on this one. How long was the exposure?

Matt July 11, 2011 at 7:19 am

I went out to a local arts and crafts store and bought some thin rubbery craft paper with adhesive on the back. I covered both of the buttons, but this seemed to somehow mess up the touchpad in general. The pointer was doing some weird things.

So I took the stuff off… Am also thinking of just getting either an external mouse and be done with it.

How this got passed quality control is beyond me. Everything else about the laptop is great.

It cannot be that hard to add a function to the Synaptics software to just make that area buttons only with no motion control. Either that or change the touchpad driver again.

Going forward I’m always going to look at the touchpad. A friend has an ASUS laptop and had very similar issues.

I’m just going to make sure there are separate buttons from now on.

Brandon August 7, 2011 at 12:39 pm

Neat! According to a MacGyver episode, you can also bust it with drain cleaner…except you’d have to have it plugged in and hot (Myth confirmed: http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/mythbusters-macgyver-light/184597). Using the BB gun seems a lot safer. Did you shoot your eye out?

June August 7, 2011 at 3:17 pm

This is really great! Don’t feel bad about the bulb. That type is so outdated and low-tech now, right? 🙂

Blase August 17, 2011 at 5:04 pm

Nick I am in the Taylorville area, and I just wanted to let you know a year later they still have big problems.

I looked at your first post in awe. I was amazed that I too am having the same issues with the customer service.

I have had it with Newwave to the point that I am no longer threatening them, I did switch to DSL, but I am trying to let them keep me as a cable customer. I contacted Mike Burns to see what he had to say. He told me he was going to try to help. I will see if he does, if this gets fixed I will post on here and let you know. I told him I will not pay any part of my bill until help has been received. It might not be the best idea I have ever had, but what other leverage do we as customers have.

Well we will see what happens. I hope that they do want to keep me as a customer. I will let you know if they do fix this.

Just wanted to let you know that a year later us customers are still in much of the same boat.

Thanks and have a great day!

Reid August 20, 2011 at 9:46 am

I’ll throw in my 2cents as well – let’s face it Newwave SUCKS! We moved to Murray KY 3 years ago and had nothing but trouble from day 1! Same scenario as all of the other posts above: poor to no connection on ‘net, TV, etc. I call and call, tech come out and look dumbfounded and tell me they don’t know whats wrong. According to their equipment it should be working, but they stand in front of the TV and computer and can see that it’s not. I’m really sick of it, but they are the only game in my area except for satellite. And the people with satellite say that their reception/service is no different. Does anyone know of some watchdog or regulatory agency that we can contact? Having to pay $130/month for crappy service is just ridiculous!!

Coä August 28, 2011 at 8:40 pm

I had that all done. It shows fine on my Google Calendar but does not syn with my android phone even I have clicked syn for “Contacts’ birthdays and events” in the phone itself and had it clicked visible, it still does not show. ;(

Joshua August 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Okay, I’m gonna try this one. It looks like it has a good, easy to understand interface.

http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

Ronnie Null September 2, 2011 at 8:21 pm

Yet another COMPLETELY unsatisfied New Wave Communications Customer in the Bootheel of Missouri. My previous internet provider was AT&T, which unfortunately only had (and has currently) 6M speeds available in my area. On every single site that I use regularly, or even those that I used intermittently or even completely randomly, I would get a reliable ~1M give or take a few hundred KB.

Roughly 3 months ago now, I saw a New Wave tech doing an install about 5 houses down from mine on my street, and thought, “Hey, why not ask about their internet packages?” The inner geek in me was then extremely “aroused” by the concept of the 50M connection the tech told me just recently had become available in my area. I jumped on that in a heartbeat and barely batted an eye at the $105.00 pricetag. 50M was eons faster than what I had right? Surely it was worth an additional 45-50 bucks a month! When I first got the service, there was a slight improvement in streaming speeds/page loads from very common websites such as youtube, amazon, msn, google, bing, etc. Nothing to bow down in amazement of. So then I start doing speedtests on both the Windows XP Home laptop and the Windows Vista 32bit Desktop that I owned (and both worked!) at the time. These showed roughly 24-34M down speeds. (I only use wired connections.) So then I go to actually install a few games/apps/programs/updates/patches from such sites as Blizzard Entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment, Itunes, Microsoft.com and I realize I’m only getting an actual 2M down speed, which varies down to 1M randomly, but in the 3 months I’ve owned it and the tons of downloads I have done (or at least attempted) I’ve seen a total of about 12 minutes of speeds greater than 2M, and it was 5-6M on the same sites I had already downloaded these things, or had to redownload, because my hard drive died on my computer (Seagate firmware issue) a couple of weeks after receiving this internet. (My main rig at the time.) EVERY OTHER TIME I HAVE DOWNLOADED ANYTHING FROM ANYWHERE I HAVE NOT GOTTEN OVER 2M! It will reach 2M, hit 2.1, then drop to 1.6. Repeat, drop to 1.7. Repeat, so on and so forth. Never going over 2M. On this 50M connection! I have called New Wave Customer Service on the order of 10-15 times if not more regarding this exact same issue. They even sent an engineer to my house on one of these visits, and he plugs in his laptop and gets 32M on a speedtest. Like this is supposed to tell me something? I had just performed the speedtest before I ever called them, and saw what it said, but I also saw what I was getting in actual down speeds from a plethora of different sites. This could be downloading a YouTube vid with Realplayer, downloading an album from Itunes, downloading the game client for World of Warcraft, downloading the Star Wars The Old Republic beta game client, or even downloading updates from Microsoft. 2M.

So, I gathered as many details as I could about the symptoms it was exhibiting, mainly the fact that I could have the same download queued up multiple times (around 5 copies) and receive almost the exact down speeds on all 5 copies. Roughly 2M. Which is effectively 10M down. But for some reason I can only get 2M on a single file from anywhere. I then called New Wave, and spent the next several minutes attempting to explain my extremely frustrated situation to the apparently clueless customer support rep, and after a bit of this, the rep apparently thought he had muted his mic, and he actually paused for a minute then said “Shut the F*** up…” Immediately I was like, “Excuse me?” and asked to speak to his supervisor, and informed him of this incredible lapse in both judgment, customer service ability, and humanity in this individual. He (the supervisor) made sure he gave me his name/email, and said he would definitely look into this as this wasn’t the type of thing that was expected of New Wave Employees. Ya think???? Other than that he didn’t seem all that perturbed by this turn of events. Over the next month and a half or so up until now, I have called repeatedly about this exact same issue. Seeing a huge number on http://www.speedtest.net, then actually going to download something from ANYWHERE, and not getting over 2M.

This past Saturday (Aug 27th, 2011) my speeds dropped down to about 200-400KB/s with epic slowdowns to 5KB/s that was sustained over several hours. I immediately called, and they said (once again) “We’ll send a tech out.” This tech, (that I had seen several times already) seemed genuinely interested in at least attempting to figure out what this issue was, as clearly 2M wasn’t even close to what I was paying for, and he told me he would recquisition an laptop and a DOCSIS 3.0 like my own and test various points in the line up to my house. This was supposed to take place yesterday. Nothing was fixed as of this morning.

So today, I called and actually asked to speak to the on-duty technical supervisor, as clearly, all of the times I had recounted the exact symptoms I was having to the “normal” employees were either misunderstood, misinterpreted, or completely misplaced. After a 27minute hold, I then spoke to “Cody the Technical Supervisor” and then reiterated once again my situation. He at this point told me “Well, I was unaware that you were having these types of issues (i.e. the multiple files queuing at the same speed while one file only does 2M, pages taking sometimes over a minute to load (simple pages like email or bing) or especially since this past Saturday, roughly 40-50% of the sites I was clicking on were saying server not found, cannot find website, or check your internet connection, although the connection indicator at my status tray showed a valid connection, and the lights on the modem showing the same.

Cody then tells me that yes, this does sound like a modem issue, and he would make sure a tech brought a new DOCSIS 3.0 out today to see if that remedied the issue. He also told me that he was “teaking a few things” and shortly thereafter, my speeds normalized at their standard 2M.

At around 5:30, this gentleman comes to the door, a New Wave “tech”. And the first thing he does is the same thing all the other techs have done (and the ONLY thing the other techs have done) is run the speedtest.net and once again, unsurprisingly, it shows a high number, this time 42M. So at this point he tells me clearly there’s NOTHING wrong with the modem or the internet service. So I then begin recounting all of the issues I’ve had, and the fact that I only get 2M, and he says “Well, what servers are these?” I then tell him EVERY FREAKING SERVER. This obviously isn’t good enough, so we go and begin downloading things. The blizzard downloader at that was showing 2M. It would hit 2.1, then drop to 1.7. Hit 2.1 drop to 1.5, and repeat this forever. I also told him that I had downloaded the client for WoW, from the Blizzard Entertainment content servers (Blizzard Entertainment is at the very least one of the richest game developers in the world with BEEFY servers with which to handle their nearly 12 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS) and told him that 3 of the 5 guys that were in my ventrilo channel had just downloaded this same file that I had just downloaded, 2 with 30M connections getting roughly 12M and 1 with a 20M connection getting about 6.8M down, and all three had made it into the game (same size file) hours before I was able to on my 50M connection.

So Mr. Internet tech says well I’m going to go out back and check some stuff. I went and used the restroom, and went out back to smoke, and he wasn’t there. He was in fact out front, sitting in his van, speaking to someone on his cell. So then he asks me “Did you actually see these speeds these people told you they were getting?” and “They couldn’t possibly be getting those kind of speeds because the person he had just spoken with told him that no one would be able to download from them if they were pushing that kind of speed.” Unknown person on the other end of the line was CLEARLY an idiot with a capital IDIOT.

Mr. Tech guy then proceeds to in about as many words tell me that no one really gets over 2M on the internet anyways… to which I promptly replied, “So you’re honestly telling me that no one in the effn world gets more than 2M on the internet????? Are you effn serious? That is BS and you know it.” He then replied, “Well, I don’t know….”

So then I go into hardcore “You gotta believe that this is complete BS mode…” and we went into the computer and proceeded to download from several different sites where my undeniable download speeds were between 400KB/s-2.1M. He then tells me that he wants me to email him all those sites because he has the same internet I do, and my modem is showing 42M and his doesn’t show that much.

So I then asked Mr. Internet Tech what his download speeds were. He told me, “I don’t know, I just download stuff and let it do it’s thang.” This is suppsedly a high-speed Internet Technician that doesn’t even know his own actual download speeds?

So I set out to compose a list of commonly used sites with readily accessible downloads in addition to a few of the other game type downloads that he could attempt in addition to all these others (some of my examples included Microsoft where I could get nothing at all to download, and http://www.bing.com which would not load for 7 successive attempts, each time telling me that there is no internet connection even though my status tray and modem tell me otherwise) and thought to include some of the several complaints I had personally read over these past couple of months about New Wave Communications that reeked of the same S*** i’ve been dealing with all this time, and stumbled across this particular page, and felt obligated to include my own horror story. Needless to say, if this isn’t resolved by the end of this billing cycle, I’m going back to my much more reliable 6M connection from AT&T DSL.

So a word of warning to all potential New Wave Communications customers who hear 50M!!! and go “wow” and sign up, most likely you’re not going to get even 5% of what you’re paying for, and if this proves to be the case, New Wave will most certainly be rude to you, call you stupid, exhibit utter stupidity of their own, lie, and continue to charge outrageous prices for NOTHING.

Buyer be warned…

Rod September 9, 2011 at 1:22 pm

I’m in Catlin, IL, and I had DSL Elite (advertised download speed of up to 6 Mb/sec.) with AT&T for over 5 years. I’ve checked the speed with Speedtest.net many times, and almost never saw a speed of under 5 Mb, regardless of time of day (even peak hours). I only experienced one outage in all that time, and that was due to a driver sliding off an icy road into a telephone pole. And it was only down a few hours. I had some intermittent drop offs that were due to a failing modem, which they replaced at no charge. Pretty good service considering what I’ve gotten from NewWave. AT&T set a bandiwdth cap of 100 GB a month, and charges $10 for every additional 50GB. I use the net a lot, downloading, and playing online games for hours, streaming music, and video, etc. So, I decided I’d give Avenue Cable a try. They offer 15 Mb/sec. download for a few dollars more that what I was paying for DSL, and no bandwidth cap. A month after switching to Avenue, they got taken over by NewWave. I’ve experienced a dozen outages in 2 months of service, some of them lasting all night. Speeds drop considerably lower during peak hours, but not horribly bad every night. My ping in games is about 20ms, compared to 40ms on DSL, but DSL was steady and reliable, though its max. download and upload speeds are less. Things will be alright with NewWave for a week, and then it goes to shit. It’s bad enough I’m seriously ready to go back to AT&T DSL and try and live with the bandwidth cap.

I’m getting so peeved about it, I’m wondering about trying to organize other NewWave customers to put pressure on the company to upgrade their infrastructure to deliver on their promised speeds, even if it takes a civil law suit to get them off their asses.

Rod September 11, 2011 at 7:32 am

Yes, Nick, my speedtest.net speeds are lower doing peak hours often, as are actual download speeds. Some nights I’ll see tests of 7 Mbps, and others much lower, some nights 10 Mbps. Some Sundays it’s so slow it’s barely useable. On the 9th (the day I wrote my first post here), the service went down entirely, and wasn’t restored until sometime the following afternoon. It’s been really good since then.

Knighted October 11, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Hi Nick: I am running Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2. Note that I was not able to rename the Utilman.exe file until I assigned myself “full control” under “permissions” of the application file Property Security tab. I renamed Utilman.exe in c:\windows\system32 to Utilman.exe.old as you advised; however, when I clicked the “Ease of Access” button either on my login screen when booting or the button on the lock screen no such message appears on my screen that: “Ease of Access has been disabled by your administrator”. The button’s perimeter just highlights. That is not so bad even if it is good practice to let the end-user kinow what is going on. However, the adverse effect I got sometime thereafter was some sort of system bug in which my pointer froze. I am thinking that maybe the click not being properly processed by some error handling routine in the source code scripting may have caused this system instability. In fact, when I was in the process of changing the name of the application file to “Utilman.exe.old”, Windows warned me of possible system or application instabilities which might arise. Sure enough, my pointer froze even though logging off and back on recovered the ability to move my pointer again. I renamed the file back to “Utilman.exe” for fear of some other problems down the road. Can you advise? And please tell me what you were intending when you talked about extraction and “archiving” the file; you lost me there. Did you have a compressed version of Utilman.exe which you extracted? And since there are security rights which protect this System32 folder, did you also have to change your permissions. I think I am missing some piece of the puzzle here Nick.

Randolph Holmes October 15, 2011 at 11:04 pm

First I definitely agree that Windows 2008 Server backup is a huge step back from NT Backup in terms of options and its performance leaves much to be desired as well. So lets talk solutions.

I build using Hyper V in much the same way described here and I use Windows backups ONLY for the bare metal restore of C: on the Hyper V host.
This cuts down the backup time.

So what about backing up the HyperV guests you say???

Check out the program Backup Chain. Its fast VSS aware and can handle your guest servers so you don’t have the headaches of Windows 2008 R2.

The best thing is Backup Chain is not to pricey. I just set it up for a client and had questions. I called tech support and actually got a person who was helpful.

Hope this helps someone else out.

Brandon October 16, 2011 at 11:43 pm

Good shot, but cheerleaders would have been nice too!

madz October 23, 2011 at 8:53 am

thank you so much!

keith October 25, 2011 at 6:37 pm

Back cover it sucks but if you do…. And know where to shop for the pads…. Its sick!

Lindsey October 28, 2011 at 6:19 pm

If you are unable to contact NewWave Communicatoins through the 1-888-863-9928 number your local office. Please try our Facebook page(http://www.facebook.com/NewWaveCommunications), twitter page (newwaveinsider), chat us, or email fanpage@nwcable.net (Chat and local office are closed Saturday & Sunday).

Erik November 2, 2011 at 9:16 am

I’m getting “No bootable partition in table” when I try to boot from the USB-drive. Any idea why?

rob November 5, 2011 at 11:53 am

I have the HTC arrive and its just terrible it can’t do anything

Randy L Shear November 11, 2011 at 7:43 am

UPDATE: It’s been two weeks since my last post, and my complaint to Newwave. They offered me a discount for 1 year taking my monthly payment for phone, net, expanded cable to $99.00 instead of $126. They offered to wave my $25 installation fee. So another appointment was made, and again I sat here waiting, and again they did not show up. No call, no show. Yesterday Newwave called me asking if we could reschedule my install.. 2 WEEKS AFTER THEY DIDN’T SHOW UP!!! NEWWAVE IS A JOKE!! I asked the CSR why they didn’t show this time, and why they didn’t bother calling me again. She looked in the notes, and said she didn’t know, but maybe I wasn’t home.. LOL.. REALLY?? Maybe next time I should have all the lights in my house on, the car outside of the garage with the flashers on, and a bonfire in the front yard.. Maybe I need to open all my doors, and windows too.. Just to make sure they know I’m here.. Have you heard of KNOCKING??? Anyway I think I’m done with these jokers.. Take care!

Gloria November 15, 2011 at 10:03 am

I my gosh, you people have scared me to death. We just got a letter from Comcast and they are turning our service over to NewWave. We get fantastic service from Comcast, internet and tv. But reading all the commplaints have pretty much convinced me to bit the bullet and get Direct tv. Seems like just when you think you life is going smooth someone throws a wrench in it!

melvin monroe November 27, 2011 at 9:47 pm

New Wave Cable service is slow to change stations.
Direct and Dish wasn’t.
The Internet is slow like Dial-up.
The phone service was slow to call out and a lot of times not work at all.
I told them about it 4 or 5 times and they have never came to do anything about it.
So I went back to at&t, DSL and DirecTV.

Brandon December 4, 2011 at 11:45 pm

Looks great! Neat idea!

Dan December 6, 2011 at 10:00 am

Holy cow, I am glad I am not the only one that is seeing this slowness. I am backing up only about 600gb to a USB drive and it has been going for 9 hours now and states 40% complete. My first reaction was “oh no, I plugged into a USB 1.1 port!” No dice, it is 2.0

This is a one-off backup I am doing to pre-seed DFSR data. I wanted to use Server Backup because that would ensure my file hashes would remain intact. Oh well, I do not have another 9+ hours to wait for this abomination to complete. I am just going to have to use Robocopy instead. Thanks for wasting a night of backup for me on a critical project, Microsoft.

Allan December 20, 2011 at 3:36 pm

Thanks, worked great first time online and on my phone.

Brandon February 20, 2012 at 12:50 am

Looks like nice wallpaper.

Michael February 21, 2012 at 5:12 am

You need to have all contacts and birthdays in important people section on your agenda. Then it will sync both ways.

Michal April 15, 2012 at 5:08 am

Thanx from Slovakia… I spend lot of time adding birthdates to contacts and after that I was very angry when they wasn’t in calendar. It was simply and it works very well… 🙂 (google saw me this page as first when i enter my problem)

Peter H April 22, 2012 at 12:57 am

thankyou. wanted this for so long.

Jimmy May 15, 2012 at 12:45 pm

I`m having he same problem that Tim stated in post #31 on April 15th, 2011.Sorry but I`m a 61 year old computer dummy.I removed it i day and it was back the next.Can you help.

James May 20, 2012 at 1:03 pm

Ha, I was thinking to put up such a page, this is truly a pitiful service in Southeast Missouri. Now I am informed they have implimented bandwidth limits. Stay away!!!

adam June 6, 2012 at 8:44 pm

I encountered a problem when following these instructions, did everything as instructed, but it failed with error 32 (output media locked).

Found that by closing the explorer window i was using to look in the directory containing the file solved the problem and this works now.

Basically close all non-essential explorer windows down before attempting this.

john July 4, 2012 at 10:05 pm

Is there a tutorial for linux environment ?

john July 4, 2012 at 10:36 pm

After running this syntax dd if=ipcop-install-usb-fdd-2.0.3.i486.img of=\\.\g: bs=1k
I got this message. is this ready for booting? Thnx –>
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
Error opening input file: 2 The system cannot find the file specified

john July 4, 2012 at 10:45 pm

what is lacking in my file? can you help me fix this problem. thanks!
my ipcop.img and dd files are inside my usbstick which is in G:\ directory. what is lacking in my syntax ?

shane July 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm

I have some great memories from the blue angels at the air show and I would have loved to take my son to the same show. Its disappointing that the show is gone.

Clint P July 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm

Oh God I couldn’t agree more with the title.. It’s terrible having NWC the ONLY internet available out here (minus Verizon which doesn’t have FIOS so it’s not reliable either) and it’s terrible. I’ve never begged for a company like Comcast to come to my town… but it’s time. I hate NWC. The guy that comes and fixed issues before is awesome, he does his job well.. but the company and stuff out of his control is atrocious. Terrible speeds. No upload ping over 1. I used to pay for 15 MBPS and it Never reached passed 10-12 so I dropped it to 10, and I still get the 10-12 but it drops out often. A new maintenance every other week. Slow speeds. Goes down far too often. It seems that sometimes even during a good test it’s just incredibly slow.

As soon as the former internet company (i think it was Frontier) was said to be being replaced by a new ISP, I was excited. But it turned out to be even worse than before, and I didn’t think it was possible.

Andrew September 4, 2012 at 12:16 pm

Eric Singer is my hero! 🙂

Al October 4, 2012 at 10:34 pm

Ups people are some of the hardest working people. Most of the time ups drivers only deliver what’s on their truck that day. So If you didn’t get a package right away it’s probably because the shipper didn’t ship it out right away. I would use ups out of anyone and still do because they are the best.

Mike November 14, 2012 at 7:53 am

Thanks for finding this, I was afraid I would have to write an app to do this. You are correct that Google needs to unbury the nice features it spent so much time developing.

At least I can still do most stuff on the phone directly unlike with a iPhone.

Arabella December 30, 2012 at 3:39 pm

Just wanted to confirm my previous comment => works like a dream!

Josh Mischler January 5, 2013 at 12:08 pm

My name is Joshua Mischler. My fiance and I have been new wave internet customers for approximately 2 years. Over the past several months we’ve been plagued with constant internet issues that no one at our local call center seems to understand, or care to fix.

We ordered the 15mb cable package approximately 2 years ago for steaming video and internet gaming. Initially our problem began with slower than normal speeds which we complained about and eventually just got used to. Then came the connection dropping which has been going on for the past 4-5 months and despite numerous calls to the call center and even speaking to the local network engineer Bart Kotter, the situation is still being left unresolved and ignored. Here’s what happens.

I have 3 computers on my home network. Its your basic simple home network with security enabled no special bells or whistles. 2 computers can be logged into Skype, AOL instant messenger, world of warcraft, and a voice over ip server. As long as these computers do not disconnect from any of these services voluntarily, they will remain connected and be able to do whatever they please.

When the 3rd computer tries to connect to anything, it cannot. If either of the other 2 computers try to open a browser and go anywhere on the internet, they cannot. If they disconnect from any of the programs currently running and try to reconnect, they cannot. If you reboot the modem and router, no one can connect to anything.

All the while, the link lights on the modem say I have a solid connection, as well as the network notification in the system tray. If I attempt to open a browser and visit Google it will time out and ask me to reload. However, if I open a command prompt and ping Google the ping is successful. This problem will go on for anywhere between 20 minutes to 4 hours.

Now I’m no internet dummy. I hold a CCENT Certification, as well as an A+. I know how to diagnose a connection issue on a home or small business network without much of an issue. After checking over my own hardware to make sure that I personally don’t have anything interfering with traffic, I’ll call new wave’s support line. The only thing the technicians can tell me is “yes I can see that your modem needs to be restarted”. I’ve had a tech visit the house and replace the wall socket for the cable itself, the modem, the filters, run a new RG-11 cable, and I’ve personally replaced the router twice. This problem at this point is on new wave’s end and the best they are offering me is to discount my bill monthly.

Recently I received a call back from the local network engineer for new wave Mr. Bart Kotter. Mr. Kotter contacted me on December 16th at 6:45pm EST and discussed the problem with me. He assured me that this problem wasn’t a bandwidth issue as he personally had added another gigabyte of overhead to my grid on the network. He then proceeded to tell me that he’d begin flooding my home modem with packets to see if we have a packet loss issue or if its something else. Mr. Kotter gave me his personal cell phone # and his work schedule so that I could get in touch with him at the moment the problem started acting up and he could look into the issue first hand. Since then I’ve heard absolutely nothing back from Mr. Kotter in regards to my issue despite my attempts to contact him personally during the outages.

Below is my contact log with Mr. Bart Kotter.

December 16th 6:45pm EST
Mr Kotter calls me personally to discuss the issue.

December 30 8:42pm EST
Text Messaged Mr. Kotter. “Hello Mr. Kotter, This is Josh Mischler. Have you figured out what my internet issue is?” I received no response

January 4th 9:05pm EST
Left a voice mail on Mr. Kotter’s personal cell phone. No response.

We left town to visit family on December 21st, and arrived back home on the 30th. Since arriving back we’ve had nothing but disconnection issues, time outs, reload requests, our service is practically UN-usable. With 2 weeks of solid up time and usage on our connection, I would think that a network engineer working for a national company would’ve come up with something. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind paying for cheap cable internet. However, I’d rather pay full price for what I ordered in the first place and not have to deal with crabby / rude customer service technicians.. Its hard to watch netflix or do any gaming or downloading on internet that will not connect.

I’ve whittled down to a very short fuze with the 1 888 new wave customer support line at this point and I’ve decided to take this up to ladder. I will however give credit where credit is due. You do have a night manager by the name of Zeth who has been dealing with my issue off and on for the past 2 months. He’s done a wonderful job so far and has been the only sincere tech or manager I feel I’ve dealt with yet..

At this point I’m taking the step to post my complaint publicly on your facebook page as well as getting in touch with Mark Bookout the General Manager for Southern Indiana. I’ve also called the President’s Hotline to try and get this situation resolved. I am tired of being ignored.

Martin May 22, 2013 at 5:11 pm

New server, freshly installed. Backup completes at 2GB/minute.
Add 50GB of data ; backup speed now starts at 1GB/min and gradually slows to 0.1GB/minute ..

Jason Rolla June 6, 2013 at 8:27 pm

Same story here. Paying for 15 down and lucky to get 1. I turned in a complaint via online contact us. They came out a couple days later said its a known oversubscribed problem where I am at and that parts were on order for my area. That was 4 months ago still the same speed, im in contract and I plan on taking screenshots at various times and emailing them to fix and when it doesnt get fixed I will just leave and tell them to see me in court when they dont get their payment, early term fees. When the contract is not upheld no legal basis for the contract. Maybe newwave is still reading this, hopefully, SESSER, IL.

kat July 1, 2013 at 5:06 pm

Trying to call tech support is useless. Can’t even get through to talk to anyone. Places you on “hold” and tells you to wait until a tech support person can answer your call. I waited 35 minutes!!! Had to listen about all of their offers and still no one answered the call. What a deal. I’m switching to dish or the new boy on the street Clearwave. NewWave SUCKS!!! BTW … I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GET A HOLD A TECH SUPPORT PERSON WHEN I CALLED. What a joke!

Cindy August 8, 2013 at 2:12 pm

It never ends with these people. I’ve had nothing but trouble with them and have NEVER had ANYONE call me back. I’ve had them blatantly lie to me.
I’ve also filed a complaint with the FCC and they are useless,although a rep did call me after filing.
Am getting ready to file another one with the FCC and add my complaint to the others filed with the,BBB.
Does anyone know how to put this company out of business?

Bob Bobson August 26, 2013 at 9:35 pm

Has anyone ever actually found the -ago format useful and been glad for it? I think it’s safe to assume that most of the time that someone actually wants to examine the timestamp of a file, they will probably want either the entire date and none of the time, or the date and time down to the second.

I just had to determine the time (down to the second) that I created a file this morning so that I could enter it into a date field of a web page, but thanks to Microsoft, that was incredibly hard. I couldn’t use Explorer to do it because it only showed the minutes, and the Properties dialog box showed none of the time at all. Even the command-prompt won’t show the bloody seconds.

How does something like this pass quality-control at Microsoft? How can they think that holding back information from users is a good thing? ◔_◔

Hue October 21, 2013 at 10:57 pm

Didn’t work. Boot error. Why?

Hue October 22, 2013 at 3:20 am

It’s not PEBKAC. Maybe hardware compatibility issue. Everything is OK when I try to boot this USB on my Laptop, but it show “Boot error” when I boot on 2 other PC.

Thank Nick

Syed December 2, 2013 at 7:30 am

Hi thanks for such a usefull application, ive down what you said and its creating the USB boot flash, but when i point the boot to the USD on the workstation that i want to install on its give “Missing perating system” error

C:\ipcop>dd if=ipcop-2.0.3-install-usb-fdd.i486.img of=\\.\E: bs=1k
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
61708+0 records in
61708+0 records out

Randy December 7, 2013 at 5:11 pm

Since New wave has taken over my ISP it has gone from bad to HORRIBLE!!! alot of sown time, intermittent service and super slow speeds. When I hade problems with the old ISP company they were super prompt on answering the phone and tried everthing they could to help. New Wave, puts me on hold for long periods of time and just says there is a problem in your area without even asking me for my account etc. and they do it in a rude way. It has benn 5 days now of major intermittent service and after 3 days of calling cant even get them on the phone now.

and31415 January 16, 2014 at 2:06 pm

I wanted to disable utilman.exe easily, without having to deal with security permissions, file replacement, etc. I took a different approach and decided to use what I like to call the “debugger trick.” There’s a registry key which is intended to automatically launch a debugger when an application starts. While the debugger is meant to start the application and attach, we can specify just any executable which will be run instead.

Start regedit.exe and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Image File Execution Options. Once there, create a new key named “utilman.exe” (without quotes). Then right-click in the right pane and select Create > New string value. Name the new value “Debugger” (without quotes) and change it’s value to “systray.exe” (without quotes as well). Changes are applied immediately; clicking the Ease of Access button won’t do anything any more. If you want to revert the changes, just delete the “utilman.exe” key you created.

What about systray.exe? It’s a little stub program which was first introduced with Windows 95 and used to handle the system notification area. If you killed systray.exe, you would lose notification icons. It’s not really used any more in the newer Windows versions but it was probably kept for some backward compatibility reasons.

Melphiz May 14, 2014 at 3:24 am

@and31415

Damn, that works like a charm. Though one can’t access those handicap programs anymore it now closes a big security hole which could grant you the possibility to take over the system.

Thanks for that workaround!

Robert July 11, 2014 at 10:48 pm

Thanks Salamander, the key part is to uncheck then recheck always on top after changing the disabled always on top… option.

Ned July 29, 2014 at 11:47 am

Works great, thank you for this!

Alexa Kindler August 3, 2014 at 7:53 pm

Works also with Windows 8.1.

It would have been nice to be able to switch back and forth, or even put the time as a popup when hovering over it BUT be able to select it and copy it.
Oh, well … it is a brilliant accident to find out that MS matches the day of the week to decide whether to display a relative or an absolute time. Eric Singer, you’re DA MAN!!!
BTW, anyone knows how to do the same in Google? It has the same “feature”

Julie September 5, 2014 at 1:19 pm

I’ve been hating this (and a lot of other things) about Win7 for a long time, but only today did I bother googling it. Nicholas, thank you for griping about it; and Eric, thank you for figuring this out.

And yeah, I hate Win8 even more. But I’m trying to pace myself. Gotta save some for Windows 9.

Johnny September 30, 2014 at 5:06 am

Yeah, it’s pretty much shit all the way. Disable all the features and you can ALMOST work with it. It’s the worst possible thing not to work though since you consider how many clicks you will need to perform over the life of the notebook. It’s kinda like learning to tie your shoes with no thumbs. I hate it…

Cory October 21, 2014 at 10:31 pm

Ever since newwave has taken over my local ISP, my internet does not work from 5pm-midnight, They have oversold bandwidth in my area and refuse to fix it. I have talked to several techs and called 15+ times over 2 months and still nothing, stay away.

Eckart October 24, 2014 at 8:09 am

Nicholas, Eric, thank you so much! I’ve been googling for that several times over the last years, but only today I managed to enter the right key words :-))

James December 4, 2014 at 9:06 am

I can just “copy and paste” Nick’s original post, as this is the EXACT situation I have been in with NewWave. I fought with them over the exact problems for a year or two, then switched to a different provider, and actually enjoyed the internet for a little over a year. Now that company has sold out to another company not much better than NewWave, so here I am, back with NewWave, thinking maybe since it has been a year, it won’t be AS bad. WRONG!! NewWave is THE WORST company I have ever dealt with in my 41 years on this earth, and I have dealt with a lot of companies.

Kevin December 26, 2014 at 12:16 pm

I can honestly say that we have had no real issues with New Wave services, a few latency issues with the internet and some pixeling issues with HD but just a few times.
My only beef is not enough HD channels and no real pay per choices.
I work for another cable company but live outside of our service area which is a big bummer.

New Wave definitely keeps the video rental store in business here in Dexter.
Overall, happy with the service.

Erthana January 2, 2015 at 9:39 am

Oke; more info: I do get a symbolic link folder, but it goes into my User map (C:\User\Erthana ) instead of in My Documents, and moving it doesn’t help.

bikerider84550 January 4, 2015 at 3:20 am

Ok I’m a little confused . You said ” Once you move the folder you need to create something called a “symbolic link” from the old location to the new location. These instructions are for Windows Vista only. This can be done on XP with a program called “junction” but I’m not going to provide those instructions as XP is an 8 year old OS now and is a thing of the past.” is this still possible with Windows 7 ? I’m a lot computer illiterate so any step by step would be really helpful . Thanks

McK January 28, 2015 at 8:25 pm

Well add me to the list of haters and one day I might just find the one person that WILL listen and WILL do something about New Wave’s BS.
Same here. I call and call and call complaining that the internet is not working. Day after day after day. Oh, we’ll send a technician out there. The technicians, and I say that very lightly because they are nothing but a bunch of low paid “yes” men…or boys….some with very smart mouths who think it’s funny to tell a customer that if they don’t like the service they are getting, to call up the company and tell them to disconnect it. Yea, I’d want my business run by this bunch of idiots.
Now let’s get to the problem. Or should I say excuses….?
The problem is “we have too many people on the lines and we just don’t have the banwidth to take care of them all. But we’re working on it”.
REALLY? How the hell long does it take to “work on it”, because I’ve called for months….time and time again and I keep getting the same damned excuse! But you let my bill go a few days over, and boy how fast they find my line to shut it off!

Here’s MY problem with all of this BS. If your tech comes to my house and hands me a line of crap like that, and he tells me that between the hours of such and such when all the kids get out of school and start gaming, and then again during the hours of such and such when everyone gets home from work and gets online, there’s not bandwidth for ME, then why the hell are you charging me for it every month. If I don’t pay, I don’t get service. If I DO pay, I STILL don’t get service! Why am I paying for something I’m not getting??
Furthermore, I PAY FOR NETFLIX, but New Wave Communications stops me from being able to watch that as well. So now I’m paying for TWO services I can’t use! (and New Wave wants me to turn my television service back on and buy their telephone service too! HAHAHAHAHA! When hell freezes over assholes! You don’t give me what I pay for now. What makes you think I’m so dumb I’d want more of your crap???
JUST FIX THE DAMN INTERNET ALREADY!! I’M SICK OF THE EXCUSES! And don’t bother to call the “President” like it says if you’re not satisfied with the service you’re local company is giving you or the way they handle your complaint. They don’t call back either! It’s just a big game for the monopolizing bstags.

James February 18, 2015 at 7:42 pm

I dropped Newwave Internet several years ago because of slowness and outages. Since then, our DSL has never let us down.

Last month, I dropped the TV cable because satellite is now cheaper. I put an antenna up for my local channels and it works great, so I may not even get the Dish. I mentioned this to a fellow employee last week, and he is dropping Newwave also. It’s not just bad customer service, it’s also greedy high prices.

JMC April 12, 2015 at 12:27 am

Newwave is absolutely horrible. Once again I’m dealing with an outage in southern Illinois… yet they have raised our bill 3 times I believe without any notification. Speeds are horrible, service is even worse and highly over priced. Cannot wait for another company to come in and run Newwave out. I have a friend in a small town in KY that is getting 60 Mbps for $50 a month. I pay $50 a month for what is supposed to be 15. How do you justify these prices for such 7 reliable service?

James Roberts April 24, 2015 at 8:47 am

New Wave has absolutely improved… However that only means going from terrible to one step below Comcast (atleast Comcast had usable service) New Wave promised VOD back over 3 years ago… Found out today…. “something better” is coming out… So never mind Indiana just wait longer FCC complaints are the only way to fine this “investor fed” company out of business… Since, after all the founders sold out big surprise

Zach May 21, 2015 at 10:26 pm

Southern Illinois’ Newwave branch is a complete joke. I have “15mbps” but its 1.7. After being on hold for over 30 minutes, I was treated to the “peak hours” excuse that is their #1 cop-out for connection issues. The only other options around here are too slow to even bother with, so here I am stuck with the same terrible service.

Roscoe Bailey June 2, 2015 at 12:45 pm

WOW, made my day! I can’t remember a rant so eloquently stated: expressing my continuous frustration with MS developers constantly mucking with what works and skipping over what doesn’t. Not to mention the Fantastic Workaround!

Steve July 19, 2015 at 9:42 am

NewWave communications is without a doubt, hands down, the worst ISP inn the market. We had a local company here before (Texas Gulf Coast Cable), and they were outstanding (was really pretty bad) in comparison before NewWave. I have called and called and called, and NewWave doesn’t care. All they can say is, we will send out a technician next week. The technician comes out and told me the first dozen times, it was my problem. Then the local tech finally told me that the problem was in the office, that they needed to upgrade the equipment, and the management will not do anything about it. I am considering a class action suit for false advertisement as I am paying for 10Mb service and getting 1.5 on a good time of a good day. It is ashamed that this provider continues to take our money and has no regard for the service they are providing.

I can echo each and every comment here, as they are the exact same problems I have here on the Texas Coast. Evidently their management is incompetent and doesn’t care. How does a class action law suit for false advertisement sound!!! That is my next move!!!

Chris August 20, 2015 at 1:21 pm

My comment is re: the TV cable through NewWave, I am in Beaumont TX, they have been “upgrading” their system for months, last week the “upgrades” were done. All the channels have changed, which really is no problem, BUT they got rid of the guide. Now how do you know which station is which and what is on? I called and my husband talked to the rep. and she said “if you can’t find a program, just call me and I will tell you what station it is on” WHAT ???
Last weekend there was NO sound on all the local channels. Now TNT has a flashing picture and a clicking sound.
We are getting our cable service in the RV park as part of our rent. We were also told we could get the guide IF we PAID for a box… I see satellite TV on the horizon !!!

Todd smith September 14, 2015 at 7:33 pm

Good to see this car again. I am the owner from Ohio. I bought this car in 1993 from a dealer with 4k miles. I took great care of this machine. I sold it in 1996 with 14k miles to a teenager who’s dad said he had to give it up within 6 months. Why I never found out. Great to see its still out there. Todd Smith.

Jody October 8, 2015 at 5:37 pm

Thanks for your post..new wave is trying to takeover my area in IL…I have consolidated and they are awesome…awesome customer service and service guys who know there stuff…would never switch….so new wave can stop sending me junk mail

crissy Hansmeyer October 12, 2015 at 8:45 am

hello . Me and my husband have been dealing with the same things for over a year . First we got 30mbs for 45.99 a month for 1 year first month free. Our first bill was a hundred dollars , lol first month free . well OK . then our computer would only work at night never during peek hours . after about 10 tech visits they finally figure out we needed a new modem . so I call newave tell them its finally working right , so the lady tells me that they will credit us a month for all the hassle I didn’t even ask she offered . So each month goes by no credit , so each month we wait for our credit we build up late fees , now 9 months later 200 dollars in late fees never gave me 30 MBS a second , they told me I only purchased the 15 MBS package when I know what I got . they finally credit us 25 dollars , what a joke , we paid over m200 dollars in late fees . so we contacted the attorney general . still nothing , next step is we need to all get together and get an attorney . they will steal from you lie to you . the communication between the employees at this company is non existent . Each employee you talk to has no idea what you and the customer service representative you last spoke to even talked about . The last time I called they wouldn’t even put a supervisor on the phone . So what our we supposed to do as customers, when the company could care less that you are a customer . when they would rather drop your service then fix it or give you a refund . when they false advertise . all we can do is take it to court . So I need you all to contact me . my email is juniortwo30@gmail.com . I have been talking to a few attorneys who are interested in the case .

Mike F. October 16, 2015 at 1:58 am

I am in Poplar Bluff, MO and NewWave took over our local municipal ISP. No horror stories here, our service is excellent even at peak hours, we rarely if ever have downtime outside of late night scheduled maintenance, and they have done nothing but update and improve our service and cable TV since. They even doubled our speeds for free, and we get 95-100% of that speed 24/7, 50 down 5 up with low pings. You probably think we just use the internet for email or facebook right? Wrong. I wouldn’t be surprised if our household was the one of the heaviest users in this area. The 3 of us eat over 1tb/month in bandwidth easily with everything from gaming to Netflix and other streaming stuff. Good thing there’s NO BANDWIDTH LIMIT. Seriously, short of google fiber I honestly could not ask for better internet service than what I get from NewWave in Poplar Bluff. It’s just about the only thing in Poplar Bluff that doesn’t suck. It’s still not worth living here, but it does help ease the pain.

I would imagine many, but not all, of the complaints here come from people who do not properly configure their router or other devices. If I had not taught myself how to diagnose and repair basic internet problems over the years there would be many occasions of downtime or other problems that I would erroneously attribute to my ISP. Learn more about your router, your computer’s wireless hardware, and basic diagnostic tools. It won’t help you every time, but it will come in handy.

Christian Gregory Sweeney October 31, 2015 at 10:27 pm

Rights their wrong my foot.

🙁 their service is abysmal, I can’t do shit half the time, can’t use FB, Youtube, or even log into my favorite forums or chat in IRC channels without constantly connecting and disconnecting, slowing down and speeding up, and I have no other feasible options in my area.

They take my money and don’t deliver what they promise…they’re thieves.

Ged B November 2, 2015 at 3:35 pm

I have the opposite problem!

I once had Facebook on my phone (removed since) as well as some other apps which I’ve now removed. I have a million birthdays cluttering my personal calendar on my phone (Android OS, Samsung) which I didn’t add! I don’t want them but they are not removable! Pain in the arse!

I also had a far worse issue with the system whereby I took some photos, with my phone, of personal documents and some app decided to share them on google’s community! F’ing thing!

This tech is marvellous, if you expect it to rebel constantly and annoy the hell out of you.

Dexter resident January 1, 2016 at 9:32 am

Well I have been fighting with newwave for over 6 months now about my modem always resetting itself they came out yesterday and hooked up a new one and guess what…..today it’s not working right. I haven’t touched it nor do I want to its not my thing I don’t pay them for me to have to fix it. But I shouldn’t shell out that kind of money every month for shit Internet and cable Chandos that lose signal all the time.

Ab March 10, 2016 at 3:17 pm

Last Acer product I ever buy. The Z410 cell phone never worked and would shut out periodically but the kicker was when the screen shattered (very cheap product) and I thought of replacing it. The phone was 169 at costco, and to replace the screen acer is charging 215 dollars. What math from a tech co. The part itself is not available for less than $125. This one is for the landfill but never ever again an acer product.

Amy April 26, 2016 at 7:16 am

I tried posting a reply on their reviews on other websites & it will not allow me or state that conversation closed. I HATE this cable service very much. My kids dad used to work for this company & he was a pretty smart cable installer (still is) if it weren’t for him I’d be without cable all of the time. Its ridiculous the things he has to fix for me because they WILL NOT! They state they’ll send someone out, but never do or the guy they send out knows nothing & fixes NOTHING. I pay $290.00 a month for the WORLDS most crappiest cable/internet & I am sick of it. My cable keeps going up & we are not renting movies here either. I am still a paying customer here NEW WAVE & just because he was an employee (who they wrongly termenated) does not mean they can jack up my service prices that high. They fired him with not much of an excuse & that pathetic manager Mike Burns (which of whom is a liar & a fake, only fixed the problem of a smart, intelligent customer because he went big & complaint on the internet, otherwise they would have never fixed the issue because they’re all idiots at this cable company) does not mean jack up the cable cost. F.Y.I people this company is planning on selling out to another company within the next year or two. They tell their employees once they do they’ll all get (depending on how long you have worked for their wonderful company, but then fire any employee over a certain time frame so they cannot reap any bennifits verbally offered) 10-30% of what the company sells bonus lol… Righhht. This company knows their fire laws in the state of good ole Indiana (a place where hard working residents have no rights & the hire/fire law is pathetic). I’m not rambling because I am mad at the whole fire my kids father (bc it was the best thing they did, due to he makes more money now then that worthless General Manager Mike Burns) I’m rambling because I’m am so fed up with paying high prices for literally shit. You would think for $290 a month I’d have all the HD channels, all the movie channels, & all the basic & family channels. NOPE!!!!! I DO NOT have cinemas, or all the HD channels, or ALL the basic. This place is a rip off. When I was in Comcast/xfinity area I paid less, had ondemand (which this sad company does not), more channels, faster internet & better quality professional workers & on call staff. This place needs help. Not a GM like this who does not fix problems until someone has spread them for the entire world to see. I’m moving soon in an xfinity area & I am so thankfu .

Jason June 20, 2016 at 10:02 pm

We never had any problems with cma but to the day that new wave took over it went to crap but the last three months has been the worst we had 27 hours of Internet don’t even try talking to customer service that’s a joke or try to get a repair man I ask about a break on my bill and was told no it’s like going to a store and purchasing all your items and not getting them where we live we have no other option but it’s funny when cma was our provider never had any problems except for a storm or high wind they even went up on our bill we pay for Service and get nothing trust me new wave sucks in every category of their Company : Enterprise,MS

Keith Page November 14, 2016 at 4:20 am

Completely agree, an HP Proliant wih 24Gb and a USB backup drive. SBS 2011, aka 2008R2, so far, 650Gb is 16% complete after 36 hours. Truly truly a shit product

L Andrews December 12, 2016 at 1:19 pm

I guess I can join the other 80-some people who have problems with New Wave. I am also one who lives in an area with no choice of cable providers. I have also had problems with TV service and, now, am having problems with internet services which I recently signed up for. I do have to say that they do come out when they say they will and usually do fix the problem, though it often is just a temporary fix because I soon have problems again.
Another complaint I have against New Wave is that they do charge extremely high prices for their crappy services. I cannot add much to what everyone else has said about this crappy cable company because I have had pretty much all of the same problems.
I would be very happy if, like Amy said, New Wave is planning to sell out to another company. However, this does not guarantee the new company will be any better. New Wave, in my area, took over from Charter (another crappy cable company), but the service did not get any better, so. . .

Silikk May 1, 2017 at 8:10 am

Why is so complicated to make bootable an usb key with ipCop ???? Others distro are so simple !!
Not run on my computer.
” ‘dd’ is not recognized as an internal command…”

Chad Cunningham September 16, 2017 at 6:13 am

Painful….i get embarrassed for him…. who would pay to see him?

Felicia Jones January 29, 2018 at 9:36 pm

UPS lost my box on December 19, 2017, and I have been going through hell with them. I filed a claim and fax over all the information that was required twice. I have been calling every other day, asking when will I get reimbursed, it’s taking forever. I spoke with a supervisor, and I was told last week it takes seven to ten business days. If the check doesn’t arrive this week, by February 2nd, I have to call them again! UPS is causing me so much stress! I’m fed up!

Matt March 3, 2018 at 11:14 pm

The data cap is simply the latest in a long string of poor decisions by this company in all of the markets that it services. Unfortunately, however, they do not seem to care about their reputation. They routinely ignore customer complaints, and in all of the markets that I personally deal in (as a travelling PC technician) they are generally regarded by most people as having low quality customer service, poor support, and frequent outages. I’ve had customers choose ADSL connections over the (supposedly faster) New Wave connections just to avoid the customer service nightmares and outages.

The fact that they’ve decided to cap data is just the nail in the coffin of whatever reputation they have left. If you live in an area where you have no choice, you are simply stuck though, and there’s no escaping it.

Actually finding a satisfied NW customer is fairly difficult. In 2016 and 2017 our corporate office (with a New Wave connection) was down over 8 times, one time for FOUR DAYS with a bunch of apologies. Repeated calls to tech support. The only thing I can say, is that their business tech support will show up on time, whether they actually fix the problem is another story.

Pr0f82 August 31, 2018 at 10:36 am

Thank you so much! it worked perfectly.
(on the indicated site I found the 64bit DD version)

Marianne January 19, 2019 at 6:40 am

Hi I’m Running windows 10 Pro and have tried to create a symbolic link but once I create it the game doesn’t open up at all, not sure how to fix this, as soon as I revert everything back the game opens up fine. doesn’t give me any error message or anything, just does the loading sign and then nothing happens and the loading sign disappears.
hope you are able to help with this dilemma
thank you

Greg Harrell September 9, 2024 at 8:21 pm

What year was the SR71 there on its way to retire