From: "Geo." 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:4597207c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> The implications are worrying. If my DSL line goes down and can't be
> restored for a week or so (  happened to me once ) would my computer
> running Vista then become unusable?

Not completely but you would start noticing things like spider solitaire
doesn't start (shows that donut thing then nothing happens) and you
wouldn't be able to get into your network properties anymore (that stopped
working as well and worked again as soon as I removed the null routes).

So in a way, yeah, you'd be screwed if your dsl went down for any period of
time. I only had the null routes for 3 days before I started to notice
things not working anymore. And the worst part is, you get no notification,
it just acts like the computer is broken or something and you waste a bunch
of time trying to track down the problem. After the video thing I decided
maybe this was a result of the block and while it didn't cure the video
issue it did fix solitaire and the network properties.

Geo.

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