I mean, I assume the download is not interuptible, so I'm looking at a few hours on my slooooow dial-up. Is there an actual file in Intuit somewhere that I can download with my download manager? or do I bite the bullet and have a busy signal on my business line? Even overnight is bad because the connection is interupted occaisionally.
TIA
Steve
Are you talking about doing an Update within QB?
I think, but am not 100% positive, that update downloads are interruptible when using the Update feature within QB. If interrupted it will pickup again where it left off. This may vary by the version of QB you are using. If you are just trying to download the manual update file, I don't think that is interruptible, but again I am not positive.
Overnight is probably your best bet. You said that your connection is occasionally interrupted. Is this because you have Call Waiting? If so, disable it before calling. If not, just try it and see what happens.
Another option if you want the manual update file is to get someone you know who has a fast connection to download it for you and copy to a CD.
Hope this is of some help.
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I don't have call waiting, I just get kicked off intermittenly on long downloads. I'm impressed that QB's download will resume where it left off.
Steve
The logic for resuming a download isn't hard, it's been around forever. You have, however, a couple of alternatives.
One is to get a friend with a high-speed connection to download the update and burn it to a CD. The whole process shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
The other is to get high-speed access yourself. With DSL or cable, just about everywhere there's civilization in the US has one or the other.
As an additional incentive, with such internet access, you can get another business telephone line on the cheap with VoIP (Vonage and others).
You have obviously never lived in the rural areas of the U.S. ;-)
Dan
For the cost of your S-L-O-W dial up connection you can get Verizon DSL. Much faster, half the cost of dial up, you can talk on the phone while you surf.
And no I don't work for Verizon.
Maybe. Maybe not. Many areas have high speed DSL/Cable. But not every where. Check with your local provider.
Be forewarned though services such as this don't have instant access to 911. So I stick with Verizon.
Well, I guess those so situated could get us hard-working citizens to subsidize their lifestyle. Much like Electric Cooperatives, TVA, the Al Gore tax for rural libraries, etc.
Or, he could be a Republican and construct his own microwave transmission towers like one chap I read about who lived in a remote valley.
Implying that Midwesterners do not work hard and contribute greatly to the economy of the U.S. would be extremely short sighted of a person. ;-) And yes, subsidizing would be the only way to go. Here in my little corner of the world we are looking into setting up our own telecom supplying FIOS to the home with video, communications and telephone services as the local phone/cable companies will not upgrade their sorry 50 yo infrastructure because its not economically feasible. Its sad that the people that are the base of our economy have to settle for 3rd rate services. 28.8 dialup is standard here especially if you live outside of town. The lines wont support anything beyond that.
Dan
No you can't! You still have to live within about 3 miles of the switch to get DSL. If it's ten miles down the farm to market road before you come to the pavement there is no way you are ever going to get anything but dial up and my guess is you won't get connects faster than about 14.4 over the line. That's life in the great percentage of landmass of the USA. Oh and your cell phone says "NO SERVICE!"
She said: "I'll have to think about it...(two second pause here) ... okay."
There is always Satellite, not perfect but far better than Dial up. 65MB in about 10 minutes recently.
Haven't the satelite ISPs gone the way of the Edsel?
I seem to recall they all went of business a while back?
I guess I must be lucky that I am still working. No in fact the new kin on the block Wildblue is a newer spot beam technology works pretty well for big downloads not a whole lot better than dial up for surfing and email, and you still need to keep the dial up as when it snows or rains hard it goes bye bye. That and it is way expensive but when you have no other choice it is an option.
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