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  1. Well, I can't think of any other software related things, but have you considered the hardware itself as the culprit? Do you have an option to swap out to a different wireless modem for an afternoon by begging a favour?
  2. I personally don't have any issues with Laptops using Linux. The Kernel's are pretty inclusive these days for the drivers you need. Had a 5 year old Vaio that bit the dust on Thursday (lost z, then q, then left shift, then the screen). It ran ubuntu, arch and sabayon just fine. Switched to an Acer and it's happy as ever running Arch with the Cinnamon desktop. It even has a broadcomm ethernet port. I was expecting hell, but it was pretty smooth. I'm toying with using Fuduntu because it's apparently designed to be good on batteries, but honestly, I can get 5-6 hours out of it now. Jupiter power manager is the thing you need to install to get good battery life. Netbooks work well as long as you stick with the lightest distro you can put you hands on. Like LMDE with a lightweight WM, or even Puppy linux. I've never owned one, but several of my friends asked me to make them faster by removing Windows and they all worked. Never used a Chrome book before so I can't comment on that.
  3. "Based on a true story. Only the names, dates and facts have been changed"
  4. My tastes tend to run quite varied. The artists on my phone right now are: NIN The New Pornographers The Shins The Raveonettes Of Monsters and Men The Black Keys The Decemberits Van Morrison Emmylou Harris Pearl Jam Joan Jett Yeah Yeah Yeahs Wintersleep CCR Bob Dylan Motorhead Black Sabbath Neko Case
  5. It was an ISP all in one. The new equipment is still on it's way, but when it gets here, I'm so going to turn off the WIFI on it assuming they let me. Canadian ISP's sometimes tell you no because they can, it's pretty rediculous the rules that our government has allowed through on some things. If they haven't shipped anything yet (which is possible) I think I'll try to talk them into sending just a basic modem since we don't have cable at all. Just a Roku streaming Netflix and my precious, precious internet.
  6. Well, I opted not to go with Channel 14 on the grounds that it wasn't my wireless router to brick by accident. I did however, take all the steps mentioned by digip and still I was stuck on Channel 6 (or five, and can't reall tell from my Android app). So I called my ISP and they said "it's a known issue with the particular router and, oh by the way, if your firmware doesn't match what we have in our DB, we push out our preferred version, so even though you put in a whole new version that fixed a bunch of problems, we just put it right back at midnight". Argh. On the plus side, we now have some fun new equipment coming that I'm going to set up properly from the get go, and I was able to negotiate for a better bandwith at no extra charge. I should really thank you guys though, because when we called in and explained everything I already did, there was a minimum of scripted troubleshooting before I was passed through to a tech rep.
  7. There's a seriers of Hak5 episodes on setting yourself up with a VPS. If you were to do that, it wouldn't matter who was sniffing your packets.
  8. Thank you for the help! I'm going to try this in the next few days, when I can be reasonably sure that my roommates won't need internet access for a while. I failed to mention too that its entirely possible tha tthe box was hacked because the username and password for the admin functions were left as the defaults. I'm going to go on record as saying that I've only moved into this place a few weeks ago and the internet setup is an inherited problem. They considered the fact that the building is mostly 50+ as security enough, but I'm starting to have serious doubts. Looks like I'm doing my banking from work for now!
  9. I was hoping you could help me with my predicament... Every night at around 10:30 pm, my WIFI goes to total crap. Tonight I decided to actually do some research as to why. It turns out my neighbour is not only using his WIFI with damn near the same signal strength, but for some reason that's beyond me, both our routers are picking the same channel to use (5). After having a chat with him, it would seem he's on the computer around about 10:30 every night so I have good reason to believe my issues are due to interference. I'm checked my router settings and it's on auto detect, but won't switch away from channel 5 even though 1 and 9 are sitting free of any signal right now. I tried manually specifying another chanel and I keep getting an error. Is there something I'm doing wrong on this? Or should I just call my ISP who supplied the equipment and give them hell?
  10. When I was 9 my family bought their first computer. It was the late 80's and we got a used 386 with 1 whole Mb of extended RAM. It came with DOS 4.2 and my parent's didn't have the slightest clue how to use the thing so they gave it to me and went back to the electric typewriter. I had a bunch of fun teaching myself DOS by just sitting there and asking, "I wonder what this does?"....type type type...."oh it does that." The fun ended when I wondered what fdisk did.... My first hack was to overclock an AMD 486 CPU to give me the same performance as a Pentium 75 back in the early 90's. That was goodtimes. I lost interest in computers when Windows 95 came out and the command line was mostly removed (at least the consumer editions). I only got back to tinkering when I finally put my hands on a linux distro and found the CLI again.
  11. At home, I use a Vaio laptop. It's pretty old. Core2Duo processor and a Gig of ram. I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 so it's still OK to go, but I really consider maxing out the ram at 4Gb, just for the breathing room. But then again, on a box this old, I'm probably better off putting the money towards a new computer instead. At work, I use a Wyse box connected to a citrix server farm.
  12. Hi, there. My name is Brian aka SystemD. Been lurking the boards for a while and decided it was time to create a profile so I can read me some attachments. I recently decided to turn my life long love affair with computers into a carreer by signing up for some courses to get certified. Favorite game: Doom Favorite OS: Linux. Specifically Xubuntu. But my day to day is spent on a Citrix Thin Client. Favorite console: NES Nationality: Canadian Accent: Standard issue west coast accent. It's the same from California to the Yukon. Sex: Male Race: 100m Dash. Does this really matter? Build: Drought and Famine resistant. Status: Got a date next week, I'll let you know. Favourite bands: The New Pornographers, The Shins, Blue Rodeo, CCR, The Raveonettes Favourite book: Monkey Beach Favourite TV Show: No cable. Occupation: Area Supervisor and Level 1 tech support simultaneously. Certifications: Nothin' yet, but I just started courses.
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