Sometimes you just gotta replace it rather than fix it.

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Offline saildoctor

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Reply #15 on: January 30, 2014, 06:06:33 AM
I read on the internet that if you silver plate your rock you can get an extra 20Mbps!

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Reply #16 on: January 30, 2014, 07:07:58 AM
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.

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Reply #17 on: February 03, 2014, 06:01:11 AM
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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Reply #18 on: February 03, 2014, 08:23:06 AM
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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Reply #19 on: February 04, 2014, 07:22:04 PM
Come owan Amazon! The rock modem is getting flaky. Daddy needs his new wifi.

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Reply #20 on: February 06, 2014, 02:17:21 PM
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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Reply #21 on: February 06, 2014, 06:30:37 PM
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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Reply #22 on: February 07, 2014, 05:34:25 AM
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!

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