Repeaters will reduce wireless channel bandwidth in half. This is why it is recommended to not use more than one repeater as bandwidth reduces each time it is daisy chained eventually becoming unusable.
In my experience, powerline is not worth it because too many variables exist in the...
Do you experience the same high pings on a wired connection? You can use a tool like PingPlotter to see if you are having any problems with your ISP. It does a traceroute at set intervals and then graphs the ping on each hop for you to visualize. Here's the link (the free version is at the...
Yep, just put the second router in AP only mode so it will disable DHCP. The connection from the main router to the second router should be to its LAN port, not the WAN port. Make sure you assign a static IP address to the second router that is outside of the DHCP range of your main router and...
PepperFlash is the only flash plugin that works with Chrome anyways since its the one built into Chrome itself and is updated by Google. You can check which plugins are enabled in Chrome by typing in the url box - chrome://plugins. Also, if I'm not mistaken, G+ hangouts uses VP8 and WebRTC, not...
Does this occur with any other wireless client device besides your laptop?
I would recommend upgrading to a wireless N router. 802.11g has a max throughput if 54Mbps, but after accounting for wireless and encryption overhead your effective throughput would be about half of that. With a...
DOCSIS is a standard by which most cable ISPs use to deliver internet service. As imagoon said, there is no "end of life" but rather there are newer revisions of the standard that adds more features. DOCSIS 2.0 allows a max throughput of ~38Mbps downstream on a single channel. Many cable ISP now...
Ahh, so it does have gig WAN? My initial search resulted with mentions of only gig LAN so I had assumed it didn't have it. Of course, it still doesn't matter either way as the chipset will remain the limiting factor.
That router is pretty low-end and is most likely a bottleneck for your fiber internet. Also, it does not have a gigabit WAN port, only gigabit LAN. From my experience, the only off-the-shelf consumer router I've encountered to not bottleneck an ISP connection that fast was the Asus RT-N66U.
Ok, so I'm a little confused at Microsoft's licensing for Windows 8. Since there is no more full retail edition, Microsoft allows for someone who builds his/her own PC to install Windows 8 via the OEM system builder edition according to their Personal Use License. It states that I can transfer...
Do you absolutely need a laptop right away? I generally recommend waiting until summer and the back to school season when new models and good sales are thrown out to consumers. (The new models will still be Ivy Bridge of course. OEMs update there products independent of Intel's release because...
Haswell should give you about 30% increase in GPU performance for ULV processors. Better battery life comes from lower power consumption in idle, active power should be relatively the same as Ivy Bridge so its hard to determine how much more battery life you'll ultimately gain depending on how...
I decided to go with the AMD A10. I figured I may as well just go for the better graphics since that's what I'll be stuck with after buying a laptop. Anyways, big thanks for all the replies!:D
That's about what I was thinking. I'm not too serious about the gaming aspects hence why I'm okay with an IGP instead of choosing a discrete card. I was curious more in if the IGP differences between the i5 vs the i7 in reviews would show significant or minimal changes in performance. If the...
Yeah, I was planning for an SSD upgrade afterwards, after using one I can never go back to a slow HDD lol. Anyways, I should go for the A10, even though its $100 more? From what I've managed to search on my own, reviews are saying the A10 is only ~%20 graphics improvement over Llano while also...
Hey guys, okay so I've been looking at 2 similar notebooks from Best Buy. The spec's are pretty much identical other than the cpu. One has an Ivy Core i5-3210m and the other has a Trinity A10-4600m. I can't decide between which to go for. This laptop is mainly going to be used for web...
Am I not understanding something or what? Norton products get so much hate yet I don't understand why that is. Personally I've been using Norton Internet Security since 2009 and it's never given me any problems, never got a virus or annoying pop ups at all. Its always been good about resolving...
Thanks for the suggestions! Alienware is a bit out of my price range but I was looking at some of the new Dell Vostros. I might consider one if it becomes available with an A10 trinity. That Sony is also nice but as far as I'm aware Sony likes to have control over the AMD drivers so that means...
Ok, so I've been looking around for a new notebook that I'll be using for college work but would also like a little graphics capabilities for some gaming. I'm hoping to stay within a $650 budget. So far, I've been eyeing the new dv series from HP and after configuring some options I ended up...
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