Ouch. I get annoyed when I have to reboot my D-Link for some settings, but thankfully it does most changes without needing to.
Ah yeah, definitely better to wait until you have some spare cash around than to pick up something cheap or otherwise necessary to replace in a year or so, heh.
Currently, I need a router in my "home office," so I can bring up a server on my old tower. Though, as noisy as the thing is, it may just end up in a corner of the living room or stuffed into closet.
Yup. I used a Swiftech, which weighs about a pound. It fell off during shipping.
A friend of ours did me a favor by cleaning out the entire system, while it was sitting in his garage during our move.
I'm not too excited about the heatsink and fan he used, but it saved me the need to futz with it. So, I hope it is good enough. It's not going to get as much heavy use as it did when it was my desktop, so it should be ok.
I've contemplated starting to run Folding @ Home's multicore client and two instances of the gpu client again on my desktop and then using the exhaust to heat half of my house ;)
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It's just a Netgear router that simulates user activity between your endpoint and their servers to gather metrics about your actual connection speed for the purposes of comparing against the advertised values.
Basically the FCC wants to see if ISPs are even coming close to providing the services that they advertise, since they always asterisk a speed with "may not reflect actual speeds during peak usage blahblahblah".
So if you pay for one service, but really get the service of a much lower tier...there's an issue there, heh.
How valid are those numbers though? Granted, most of the time my limiting factor is throttling on the sever end. I tend to get max throughput to a server that I can hammer.
@GeorgeMarian I'm assuming that they've figured out something to get them reliable enough that they can tell if anyone is really being malicious about it.
@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException Sounds tasty. I think I'm gonna miss out on the feast at our friend's house. I'm feeling rather crappy. That said, the gf did promise to bring some home if I don't make it over.
@TimStone Do you have any idea if proximity to a wireless repeater could be causing my cheapo router's wireless woes? Assuming that is indeed the issue. I thought it could be running too hot, since placing it on top my case's exhaust fans seemed to clear it up last night. So, the jury is still out. Just because it hasn't flaked out on me yet doesn't mean that I've found the issue. It was working fine for a while last night.
Hm, I'm no authority, but I wouldn't think so...If devices couldn't connect, then sure, but I don't see why that'd cause the device to reboot. Does the router have a status log? I'd have been much more inclined to blame the heat, anyway.
@TimStone Yup, it has a status log. I guess I could enable debug information and hope that provides useful information. The current long doesn't seem to shed any light on the situation.
@TimStone Yeah, that's why I was wondering about the repeater. It's on the other side of nearest wall. (The apt "complex" has free wi-fi and there's a repeater just outside my apt.)
I went without caffeine for a quite a while the last time I was out of work. I was surprised that I didn't need it. Granted, I did drink lots of Pepsi. Now, I limit myself to 2 cups a day, usually. Though, I do believe I've built up quite a tolerance. I was drinking coffee like it was water at my last job.
@TimStone Yah, sleep is important. I still remember my college psych professor urging us to make sure we get the sleep we need, because you can never truly get out of sleep debt.
If I get really dehydrated I get migraines - which to me are virtually indistinguishable from my hangovers. So I try and drink plenty of water these days. Not coffee as it's a diuretic.
@ChrisF Fair enough. I tend to prefer lattes, which have plenty of liquid to go w/ the caffeine.
It's along the lines of the difference between beer and liquor. Both will dehydrate you, but when you drink beer you have to visit the bathroom much more often. :)
I've drunk black coffee all my adult life. I didn't have access to a fridge in the halls of residence during my first year at university and I couldn't stand the taste of whitener.
It's funny, 'cause I used to make coffee for my parents before going to school back in the day. Initially, I couldn't stand coffee. Then I started liking the smell of fresh ground coffee and it's grown on me since.
@George: it was in response to someone asking me the other day, what I had planned for new years. That's midnight fireworks outside the window, and presumably a SE site on the monitor (would be WoW, probably, if I was so inclined)
@TheNeedsMoarJqueryException: if you turn notifications on. There was a link to to that, just under the starred items at right. I turned it on, so I don't see the link anymore.
Sitting around at Christmas, at my brother's house, all of us on what my sister-in-law calls iDevices, including the 11yo on her Touch, and the 7yo on her dad's IPad.
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