Re: [H] N routers and G cards

At 11:49 AM 11/09/2007, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 09:32 09-11-2007, Thane Sherrington typed: Will an 802.11n router give greater range with 802.11g cards, or do the cards have to been N has well? Sorry but N cards are also required but the router will fall back to G or B as req'd/ According

Re: [H] N routers and G cards

Aren't there also antenna improvements with the pre-N routers that benefit non-N clients? Lack of good antennas on the NIC's are the biggest drawback combined with low power output IMO. Now with 3rd party firmware it's possible to increase WAP transmit power but that will not help the weakest

Re: [H] Dumb Dell ?

Reminds me of the only Dell I ever had... The HD eventually failed RIGHT WHILE I was talking to the guy on the phone. I was on the phone with them almost constantly... (My wife said they must have had a dart board with my picture on it...) After they switched to Tech Support in India, and I

Re: [H] Dumb Dell ?

sarcasmRight because the diags that come with DIY parts (if any) are any better./sarcasm Unless you're running something to monitor your SMART status from within Windows, you won't know if you're having problems until you've started to lose data. Rick Glazier wrote: Reminds me of the only

Re: [H] Dumb Dell ?

At 04:39 PM 11/09/2007, Ben Ruset wrote: sarcasmRight because the diags that come with DIY parts (if any) are any better./sarcasm Unless you're running something to monitor your SMART status from within Windows, you won't know if you're having problems until you've started to lose data.

[H] GPS units

Several months ago I had some conversation with a List Member in the NJ area (I think) that dealt in GPS devices. Is this List Member still in business and here? Wondering? Have some questions Thanks, Duncan This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net

Re: [H] Dumb Dell ?

That reminds me of other horror stories... At times Maxtor replaced drives for me that still worked, but had error codes, AND the software was later found to be WRONG... (And the replacememt drives fried with no error codes...) The big (recent) Google study sort of said (in a different way)

Re: [H] Dumb Dell ?

At 05:19 PM 11/09/2007, Ben Ruset wrote: When a drive has SMART errors, Dell diags will pick it up as failed, and you'll get your replacement part. I don't see what the problem is. Except that SMART isn't binary - unless the drive is actually failing SMART (which means it is generally

Re: [H] Dumb Dell ?

At 06:19 PM 11/09/2007, j maccraw wrote: Hasn't SMART been summed up as an idiot light AKA it's already failed, here's your error? Other than monitoring temperature I thought SMART has proven mostly useless or unreliable? Nope, not if you know how to monitor the attributes. Of course most

Re: [H] N routers and G cards

I've been using an Apple Airport Extreme with both n cards and g cards. The n cards connect in places where the g cards cannot and the g cards are noticeably better than with a g router. The Airport is expensive but highly recommended, especially since the latest refresh added gigabit ethernet

Re[2]: [H] Dumb Dell ?

Hello Rick, Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 11:46:05 AM, you wrote: Reminds me of the only Dell I ever had... The HD eventually failed RIGHT WHILE I was talking to the guy on the phone. I was on the phone with them almost constantly... (My wife said they must have had a dart board with my

Re[2]: [H] Dumb Dell ?

Hello j, Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 4:19:11 PM, you wrote: Of course most HDD vendors have their own software and won't help you unless you have a diagnostic code from it or a stone cold dead drive. And this was T's point. As I have also seen if it ain't Dell HDD diagnostics it ain't

Re[2]: [H] Dumb Dell ?

AYeah and Dell ain;t the only India lusers... Linksys and Bilken as well

[H] Unstable Airport Extreme with Road Runner

Well after just praising the Airport Extreme I am having some problems, although I think they stem from the crappy RoadRunner cable connection. I am staying at my parent's place for a couple days and figured I would just plug in my Airport Extreme into their cable modem and have wireless while we

Re: [H] Unstable Airport Extreme with Road Runner

Did you do a site survey to see if there was another WAP nearby? Maybe a 2.4GHz cordless phone? If the wired ports work I'm guessing you power cycled the modem after you switched the MAC of the interface it was plugged into. So no problem with the wired connects, just wireless? Brian Weeden

Re: [H] Unstable Airport Extreme with Road Runner

Can anyone think of something on the RoadRunner network that would be causing it to freak out? Brian Weeden If you can use a wired port and it works fine? then it sounds more like something is interfering with the wireless signal rather then something to do with the ISP.