Okay, this is becoming a long-standing pissoff.
For the past few months, many downloads have been failing (they're installers who don't work), also my antivirus acts up and breaks. I have three theories to why this is happenning.
1 - Damaged Motherboard (Can't be the Hard Drive, just bought a 500GB SATA drive and a fresh copy of XP)
2 - Damaged Wireless Card: I'll put it simple, this thing is fucking ancient, I've used it for 3 computers so far and I got it used from my buddy and his dad.
3 - Damaged Modem: I connect through my neighbor's modem, no one else's, I don't use my dad's because I don't want to kill his connection AND I don't want him to be able to shut me down.
What do you think is most likely? Any other ideas of what can be going on?
Quote3 - Damaged Modem: I connect through my neighbor's modem, no one else's, I don't use my dad's because I don't want to kill his connection AND I don't want him to be able to shut me down.
Well, given my intimate knowledge of using this method of connecting to the internet ::), I wouldn't be surprised if it was the problem. My guess (or at least my problem) is that the connection isn't very good between your computer and it. I can't download any .exe files on this, I have to use the school's computers (thank heaven they haven't blocked sendspace... yet.). That's my guess.
Modem... This is generally a problematic way to connect to the internet. Especially bigger downloads tend to get corrupted. =/