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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.
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Remember how I was complaining about the slow wifi at my campus? Check out their ethernet speeds from the library:
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I've seen bizarre upload speeds from time to time... It's like nobody is using the bandwidth.
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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
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Microsoft is teasing DirectX 12.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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:
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Fedora was snappier than Ubuntu when I used them for classes, but Ubuntu resembles Windows significantly more than Fedora.
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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.
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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
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A hackintosh would infinitely be better than dual booting linux :P
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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.
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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. |
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. |
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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