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Zet March 5th, 2014 5:16 AM

That's still better than what you can get here in Australia, though one ISP here has a 500GB cap... if you don't care about how terrible their service is.

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 7:54 AM

Remember how I was complaining about the slow wifi at my campus? Check out their ethernet speeds from the library:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3350182800.png

Legendary Silke March 5th, 2014 9:00 AM

I've seen bizarre upload speeds from time to time... It's like nobody is using the bandwidth.

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 9:29 AM

I honestly don't get though why the wired network is not slow like the wifi network. It's the same, shared network isn't it? Maybe I need to freshen up on my networking knowledge :p

Legendary Silke March 5th, 2014 9:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8128847)
I honestly don't get though why the wired network is not slow like the wifi network. It's the same, shared network isn't it? Maybe I need to freshen up on my networking knowledge :p

Wireless networks can have a bad case of interference, especially on the 2.4 GHz band. (Not many mobile devices support the 5 GHz band.)

Tsutarja March 5th, 2014 3:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8128849)
Wireless networks can have a bad case of interference, especially on the 2.4 GHz band. (Not many mobile devices support the 5 GHz band.)

Is there a way to check on what band is being used for the wifi then? It wouldn't surprise me if it was 2.4GHz if it's that slow.

donavannj March 5th, 2014 8:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8129375)
Is there a way to check on what band is being used for the wifi then? It wouldn't surprise me if it was 2.4GHz if it's that slow.

To my knowledge, there's no way to do this in Windows itself. If you can get to the wireless access point's administration page, you could check it there, but most access points default to the 2.4GHz frequency. Changing the frequency to 5GHz can cause a mess with any wireless landline handsets, though, since those usually use the 5GHz or 6GHz frequency.

Legendary Silke March 5th, 2014 10:24 PM

Microsoft is teasing DirectX 12.

Interestingly, Qualcomm is on-board. (They exclusively do mobile GPUs)

Omicron March 5th, 2014 10:52 PM

I'm very pleased with my ISP. We have no cap and the download speed is always over 45Mb/s. The only downside is that the upload speed never gets above 2Mb/s, staying most of the time at around 1.6Mbp/s.

http://i.imgur.com/bzUhGhI.png

Tsutarja March 6th, 2014 12:09 PM

Sometimes it makes me wonder why ISPs provide weird speeds like that.. some have fast downloads and slow uploads while other ISPs have slow downloads and fast downloads.

Tsutarja March 6th, 2014 1:00 PM

Yeah, my speeds are fairly identical to one another, and we have fiber optics. However, many cable ISPs also have fiber optic technology as well, yet a common thing I notice with cable ISPs in the USA is that they tend to have good download speeds with atrocious upload speeds.

Omicron March 6th, 2014 3:04 PM

It is strange indeed. We have companies that already have identical upload and download speeds through fiber optic, but they aren't so popular because they don't offer TV services.

Tsutarja March 7th, 2014 4:58 AM

So I've been noticing that my phone has been appearing as a wifi network on my laptop in Windows 8. However, can it share the network if it's just wifi only or would it pull from my data?

I assume it's bluetooth tethering though, because my phone and my laptop are paired via bluetooth.

Legendary Silke March 7th, 2014 5:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8131710)
So I've been noticing that my phone has been appearing as a wifi network on my laptop in Windows 8. However, can it share the network if it's just wifi only or would it pull from my data?

I assume it's bluetooth tethering though, because my phone and my laptop are paired via bluetooth.

Congratulations on discovering a little-known feature of Windows Phone 8 :P (That's Bluetooth tethering. There's also Wi-Fi tethering...)

Tsutarja March 7th, 2014 11:15 AM

Sometimes I feel with my new laptop I want to dual boot some Linux with it, but I'm not really sure to what distro I should use if I wanted to do that.

Cordelia March 7th, 2014 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terabyte (Post 8132054)
Sometimes I feel with my new laptop I want to dual boot some Linux with it, but I'm not really sure to what distro I should use if I wanted to do that.

Since you're not too experienced, I'd recommend Ubuntu or Mint, tbh.

Alexander Nicholi March 7th, 2014 3:08 PM

For some reason, Debian-based distros always bothered me. I don't really have experience with other distros, so I wouldn't know what you should get unless you're wanting to run a shell-based web server (in which case I'd recommend CentOS 5 x64). Sorry D:

donavannj March 7th, 2014 3:14 PM

Fedora was snappier than Ubuntu when I used them for classes, but Ubuntu resembles Windows significantly more than Fedora.

Hiatus March 7th, 2014 3:27 PM

I always wanted to give Elementary OS a try, but never managed to get past installation. When it came to that, it always gave me a black screen. I asked for help in Ubuntu forums, but none of their suggestions seemed to have worked, though. :( I don't know, my laptop probably just isn't compatible.

Tsutarja March 7th, 2014 3:37 PM

I opted out of dual-booting for now, to be honest. I don't really think I'd use a Linux install as often as I think I would, and I just don't feel like dealing with partitioning either :p

On the other hand, a hackintosh is something I'd like to try one of these days.

Zet March 7th, 2014 3:45 PM

A hackintosh would infinitely be better than dual booting linux :P

Hiatus March 7th, 2014 8:18 PM

I'd try installing Hackintosh, but none of my laptops seem to have what it takes for it, sadly. ): I do have one of those old iBook (well, it's in new condition), though, so thankfully, I'm still able to keep up with the world of Mac. Sort of.

Legendary Silke March 7th, 2014 10:31 PM

Trying to install Linux natively on a laptop is pretty much asking for lots of research :P

Hackintoshes do not sound too good on a laptop, either.

Alexander Nicholi March 7th, 2014 10:44 PM

Here's an interesting comparison I found on the three major OSes.

http://alex.twigzone.net/i/compareos.png



I think I'm in between the Linux and Windows POVs in regard to all three.

Tsutarja March 8th, 2014 4:29 AM

I've never really even tried a hackintosh before, to be honest, but I've always wanted to haha

Sometimes I wish though that virtual machines could run as smooth as possible, even when it comes to putting in higher specs for them.


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