Cable Modems + ICQ

[Techie Dude]

do ICQ work with Cable modems? It`s gonna be installed on the 24th Jan, so I would like to know in advance if it works.....

Cable modems are kinda a new thing here, still very unkown! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Looking forward to it though!

Thanks,
TD.

[NDC]

Yep, ICQ works just fine with ICQ, but I haven't seen file transfer speeds higher than 40KB/sec though my cable connection speed is at 800kb/sec. I think it something that ICQ is limiting. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[KAknight]

Cable modems are a high speed connection to the internet. ICQ would work just fine with a cable modem.

I gotta learn to type faster so I can be the first to reply. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Kinda odd that we both choose to use "just fine."

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[3beanlimit]

I've had cable for a year. Trading files on ICQ works like a champ. I've hit speeds as fast as 70KB/s.
Last month though, @home finaly implemented their cap. Now I hit around 112kb/s using ICQ.

[NDC]

I envy you, 3beanlimit. I wish I could get transfer rates like that over ICQ..... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif I'd be getting things done alot faster!

[Techie Dude]

Thanks Guys!

Dunno what I`d do without my ICQ! Heard reports that ICQ doesn`t work on ASDL, but that might be just our typical country!

See ya!

Merry Christmas,
TD.

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[bhess]

just fine on cable here. I would recommend a firewall though. zonealarm.

[Techie Dude]

Thanks, already using Norton Internet Security.

TD.

[JayMan]

1. would still recomend usin zonealarm, its free so what the heck.
2. Cable works fine here with ICQ. Max upload here in Australia with @home is capped to 128Kbit (16KByte), download is meant to be capped at 360KBytes, but last night i got it up to 480KB dling from nvidia (altho i don't even have a nvidia card lol was just testing something).

man i wish @home would put up the capping on d/ling alittle, i'm happy with the d/l, but u/l could atleast be 256Kbit (32KB). But what can we do about it? nothing.

JayMan

[Techie Dude]

2 Firewalls? Well, I guess that`s pretty secure, lol!

TD.

[Deanna_L]

Whether ICQ will work with a cable modem depends on your ISP’s configuration. When I first got my cable modem, ICQ would not work until my ISP revised their network in a way that ICQ would work.

[shadow]

Should be no reason why ICQ wont work with a cable modem, mine always has.

As for firewalls, there's too many reviewers that rave about ZA, it's free easy and the best (I knew a girl like that once), who can beat that? I've used it for over a year now, gone thru all their troubled versions and I am still a loyal user...it works with my Win95b, Win98, WinNT4.0, Win2k.

[Wilan Wong]

Where do u get ZoneAlarm JayMan?

[Andy_L]

www.zonelabs.com (http://www.zonelabs.com) is where zone alarm can be found

[RalphArch]

If you have a one-way cable modem; such as I do, with telco return, ICQ running on a home network is not so simple (yes - it will run on the server w/o problem). Had to get winproxy for my son's icq to be working on another computer through the one-way (telco return)

[randy48]

RalphArch get yourself a DSL/Cable Router, the best $150 I've spent in a long time http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gifNo more complaints about ICQ, Napster, etc http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif