Today Bob Goodwin did spake thusly:
Ed Greshko wrote:
> May I make a simple suggestion as it sounds as if you are fighting a battle
> that will continue to be fought? Keep in mind that I forgot the family
> dynamics in play.
>
> Is your connection to the internet ADSL? If so, why not just get a second
> phone line for ADSL only and another ISP account that is dedicated to the
> twins to use. Maybe you can get it for a discount as you have one account
> already and maybe you can get them a lower usage level. If they use it up,
> so be it. You are unaffected. Your choice as to who pay the freight.
>
>
The family dynamics are good, everyone is cooperating, the kids I can manage.
ADSL and Cable are not options in this rural area. It's either the satellite
connection or Verizon dial-up. We suffered with dial-up for several years,
we had two lines actually, canceled those and changed to this Wildblue
account which works well normally.
I need to find what is driving the usage numbers, they were dropping until
about a week ago. The solution may be to put the boys back on a dial-up or
their mother may just leave them without internet? But that doesn't
define/identify the problem.
Run the spyware detection stuff at
www.prevx.com on the XP machine, see if
there's any spyware. Often spyware can be a cause of mystery bandwidth
stealing
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