I was looking on ebay at some OC-3 card for $0.99. So I phoned PCCW my local carrier and asked how much to run an OC-3 to my area. They laughed, as they knew it was about the slow internet, and flat out said no.

even a 10/10mb connection would be worth it to me, but they don’t want anything to do with the last mile out here.

O RLY? My grandparents house is just 2-3km away. There, I’m magically getting speeds like 300-400 KB/s (keep in mind that the test download had speeds of 60-90 KB/s at my house). And there’s the bandwidth limits. I have to limit my usage to 40GB per month! For someone who is a very heavy downloader, this is a great blow.

now that im back on windows 7, I can run 10 in a VM, and try virutal PC from there. The #1 cool thing about VMware is that it can run itself.

Looking down, it’s nothing but turtles, right?

I hear ya! I have a 6MB down, 768 connection up. 90% of Hong Kong is faster than me. I have to visit friends/family who have anywhere from a 100MB to 1GIG connection. It’s annoying have such antiquated speeds in the modern age.

But I’m lucky in that I don’t have bandwidth thresholds.

I don’t know what was changed, just that auto update pulled in the newer version. VMware has it as a known issue, and says to try a newer version, which publicly there isn’t any.

Plus, the BSoD has a different error code than what you get with an unpatched vmm.sys. Try using Compatibility Mode.

9879 I guess you haven’t auto-updated yet. It also breaks VMware so I’d not recommend it.

I ended up falling back to Windows 7.