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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Doc B. on January 26, 2014, 05:06:27 PM
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Our gateway at home (where I actually do my first two hours of work each day) has been knocked off the shelf so many times that the main chip seems to have broken contacts. Pressing on it brings it back to life for a while. So this is my temporary fix. I am admitting defeat on this one, and buying a new modem and router.
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Are the matches for the last resort solution?
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Nah, I just raise the rock up about three feet and drop it. Got a Motorola SB6141 modem and Asus N-66U router on the way.
We got back this afternoon from a really nice time at the beach. Stayed in a cute cottage with a killer jacuzzi tub, great bed and nice gas fireplace. Only downside was that you didn't get the motel's Wi-Fi anywhere but standing with the iPad on top of the little fridge in the kitchenette.
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This is one of those times when I think, "Boy, I wish I had thought of that before!"
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I'm not even going to ask how you figured out big ass rock was a cure.
There is one possible fix if you want some fun, strip the plastic chassis off it and cook it in the oven for 15-20 minutes @450 degrees, just dont let your better half catch you..
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Yeah, the iPad isn't exactly the wifi champ. Otherwise, I love mine (bought one for my B day, had to keep up with the Schmalles).
The B&B I stay at once a year has iffy-wifi but the inn next door has a stronger signal. I have no ethics when it comes to sucking in someone else's 2.4k!
Nice lookin' rock btw.
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Our gateway at home (where I actually do my first two hours of work each day) has been knocked off the shelf so many times that the main chip seems to have broken contacts. Pressing on it brings it back to life for a while. So this is my temporary fix. I am admitting defeat on this one, and buying a new modem and router.
Now that's an engineering solution!! 8)
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My first impression when I saw that rock was - "Wow, the Bottlehead version of the Shakti Stone!" (http://www.shakti-innovations.com/audiovideo.htm)
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That's not a Shakti Stone. That's a Puget Sound Potato. They magically emerge from the ground by themselves in the glacial till around here. One of life's adventures is finding the new ones that popped up over the winter during that first spring lawn mowing. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - Clang!!
I am uploading this via the potato modem this morning. It's still running perfectly.
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That's not a Shakti Stone. That's a Puget Sound Potato. They magically emerge from the ground by themselves in the glacial till around here. One of life's adventures is finding the new ones that popped up over the winter during that first spring lawn mowing. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - Clang!!
I am uploading this via the potato modem this morning. It's still running perfectly.
I had much the same thing when I lived on Long Island, which is one long pile of glacial moraine. It made gardening an adventure. The 12" down you carefully tilled the year before magically got strewn with stones of all sizes after the freeze and thaw.
Speaking of Shakti Stones (yeah, I know I was the one to bring it up) - Of all my favorite audiophool nonsense, these (http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm) are among my favorites.
BTW Doc, the Asus router is as awesome as the reviews claim.
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My son Colin got the Asus router a while back and loves it. The Motorola gateway with a rock on it seems to have a great modem that is the same as the SB6141 but mediocre WiFi signal, so I have high hopes for Motorola/Asus combo.
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When i changed ISP they provided a Cisco box which is a great router but had lousy wifi. On closer inspection i found it had a small flex pcb for an antenna inside the case connected to the main pcb with a regular miniature connector. I then took the antenna off the old unit, plugged it in and taped it onto the outside of the case giving me a nice strong signal all over the house. I was surprised it was that easy, though any radio engineers reading this will be shaking their head saying no no no no :)
I had to lol at that Shakti site, if only the team of Bosch engineers who developed the ECU in my car knew that strapping rocks to it would make it think faster and make more power. /facepalm
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Our gateway at home (where I actually do my first two hours of work each day) has been knocked off the shelf so many times that the main chip seems to have broken contacts. Pressing on it brings it back to life for a while. So this is my temporary fix. I am admitting defeat on this one, and buying a new modem and router.
maybe some duct tape can make that a permanent fix!
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It won't block the cooling holes. :o
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I read on the internet that if you silver plate your rock you can get an extra 20Mbps!
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If you quickly knock a hole in your roof you can claim the rock fell from the sky and smashed your router. Claim on the insurance for roof repair and a new hub, sell your story to the papers and list your genuine meteorite on ebay for $10,000.
;D
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Years ago a buddy of mine fixed my dying computer by hugging it. The thing had become increasingly unreliable and would mysteriously shut itself down and give strange beep sequences during startup. After fiddling with it for a while and eventually puching the machine in frustration, my friend tells me to take it easy and says the machine just needed some love and mockingly hugged it, at which point it beeped and returned to life.
After some more prodding, we discovered that the problem was a curved motherboard which resulted in the video card not seating properly. After some very careful bending and wedging some paper underneath the proper spots in the case, all was well again.
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That reminds I used to put my pc's wallwart transformer in the oven to warm up after it decided it would not work from cold anymore. Once up to temperature it was fine.
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Come owan Amazon! The rock modem is getting flaky. Daddy needs his new wifi.
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The new setup got put together last night, and it's really nice. This morning I was seeing 38M down and nearly 12M up. Hoping to see even faster down, as I have seen up to 47M in the past few months. Suddenly this setup at work seems a little slow...18M down and 3.5M up today. This business park is getting crowded!
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Was that over a wireless connection? I'm guessing your pushing a 54 Mbit/s wifi to its limit.
I switched to 1gbit wired Ethernet at home to get the most out of my connection, tests 131mb/sec down, 11mb/sec up @17ms. Kind of funny when 100mbit Ethernet just isnt good enough any more :)
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Yeah, the connection at work is relatively slow. But the new setup at home is great. Didn't have an Ethernet cable handy that was long enough to reach from the LAN jack on the wall to the new router so was streaming hi def video over wifi into the HT last night with not one glitch. Almost have the surround setup complete in there too, lots of speaker wiring happened last night. Tonight Paul Stubblebine and his lovely wife Connie are coming to visit. I hope PS can get is ears warmed up enough to help me get the surround dialed in. It's 16F here this morning, my ancient rebuilt oil furnace is humming along and we have little electric heaters running in whatever room we are inhabiting. Luckily the HT with a CRT projector and three tube amps stays pretty warm!