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Originally Posted by Tomcomm
Regarding Tom C's response to my continuing use the ancient MS XP operating
operating system. I live in the outback area of Santa Barbara county, California.
Out here there is no fiber optic cable service to our house, only expensive and
easily overloaded Hughes Direct Satellite. The alternative is line of sight 2000
Mhs radio to/from a mountain top 12 miles away.
Since we aren't Power Internet or Gaming users we got the most cost effective
service from our internet service provider, Impulse.Net. For $50 per month they
guarantee their download speed of >5Mbps and my upload of >1Mbps.
Clearly my ancient MS XP computers are not the speed limiters here. As an aside
the US Navy still uses the MS XP operating system and pays Microsoft to maintain it fast and secure. I don't need internet speed bragging rights.....Tom
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My comment was a recommendation...Almost every XP rig I've tried to use in the last 8 years was painfully slow not just on the internet but also on its normal software too...If your money is worth more than your time, by all means, keep your dinosaur around.
The navy presently is not a good spokesperson for XP or any other obsolete technology in my book...They are also using and maintaining planes older than my parents, that have been conking out mid-air and crashing with loss of life in the past few months...
My last employer had decades-old top of the line computerized oscilloscopes running XP that were labeled 'ABSOLUTELY NEVER CONNECT THIS TO THE NETWORK/INTERNET'...Asking about it I was told because they are very easy to hack, and were made inoperable by a hacker last time they were connected, and that they put the rest of the company network at risk too...