Does anyone know if humidity alone could cause the WiFi chipset in a smartphone to go "bad" and become extremely slow (about 500 - 1000 Kbps)? It was good when I first got my phone but I've had it a few weeks now and it always transmits at a depressingly low throughput...
@r.tanner.f oh, okay. I don't even have a 0 year old, so I don't know. The only people I come into contact with IRL would never come close enough to play a 2-player game with me. Why do you think I play multiplayer online games?!?!?
@Bob perhaps not, unless the regular Surface has a cheaper touchscreen... OR Microsoft is just artificially limiting stuff again (hello, TCP listen sockets on older client OSes) to make their top-end products look good
we need to see a production release of the Surface Pro and have a professional hardware site do a teardown of the parts and see if the Surface and Surface Pro have a different touchscreen part
most likely Microsoft is buying their touchscreens from a third party (likely Chinese or Taiwanese) manufacturer, and if they can identify the part number, they can get the detailed specs from them
ok... I honestly have no idea where to go to get good shipping in Europe, although my first guess would be to suggest that you try a place that you know is geographically located nearby -- near enough for a ground based delivery (mail)
but sane naming standards would mean that we couldn't directly compare two processors of different make/model by determining which one has bigger numbers! ;-D
also, it's funny that AMD has a HD4000 series of GPUs which is quite old and Intel's latest generation of GMA is also called HD4000 but the numbers don't change like they do for Radeons
but perhaps not so funny is that Intel's new HD4000 is about the same speed as a middle or high-end Radeon HD4000 :)
Same with nvidia cards BTW, marketing technical named after the just realsed main power chips. And about half the speed of a desktop card (and half the power used)
also, dragging from Windows Explorer into Nautilus (or vice versa) makes me want to scream "NO!!!!!!!!!!!! THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HEAH! THIS FAR! NO FURTHER!"
I recently uninstalled all the HP printer software for my C4580 printer. It still prints fine from my computer, however will not scan via Windows Fax and Scan. I did the same thing on another computer, however it will allow it still to scan. The error I am receiving is "No scanners were detected..." However the printer does show up as a scanner in the Devices and Printers section of Control Panel.
Both had full HP drivers installed, both had them uninstalled in theory leaving behind the bare essential drivers.
I'm pretty sure the problem isn't network related. It is probably a corrupt driver issue on the client
The printer is also connected via Wi-Fi to the router, however as of late is no longer detected by windows and now I have to print via host. If I could access the Wi-Fi version of the printer, I could probably scan again.
Maybe uninstalling drivers on host removed the printer's Wi-Fi settings?
The various rooms in chat.stackexchange are really informative even for a noob like me. It allows you to ask for clarification without fear of downvote or closure.
Just today some experienced user was talking about being unable to access the chat because the newer version of chrome won't support ...
@njallam If you could get your printer on a cable to the router I think that would be ideal. Not for any hard technical reasons, just to eliminate one point of failure...
Consumer WiFi to an HP multifunction printer sounds like a disaster =D
they run for about a thousand bucks (if it's genuine; there is a lot of Chinese-made Cisco counterfeit equipment out there with Linksys or Netgear hardware)
@r.tanner.f they were really bad before they got bought, IMHO
you just can't make cheap wireless hardware that works in all environments, properly compensates for interference, properly controls its transmission gain, and has properly designed passive features to maximize SNR
@r.tanner.f actually I've heard lots of good things about the "good old" Linksys wifi routers, but they of course don't support 802.11n :P
the closest thing I've come across in recent years is using a fairly expensive ($189-$200 range) consumer-grade router with 5 GHz 802.11n -- in the absence of hardware that actually works, 5 GHz is the best you're gonna get, if your devices support it
problem is, I have a tablet, a smartphone, and a SoC stick (Cotton Candy) that don't work with 5 GHz
I've given up on wireless entirely... my phone can only push 500 - 1000 Kbps over 2.4 GHz 802.11n in infrastructure mode, even though it can directly download over 15000 Kbps from its uplink
@allquixotic Meh, for the price of a PoS Wireless-N 5ghz consumer grade router I can build half an army of WRT-54Gs and blanket an area in WDS :P
When I find a wireless-N router that runs custom firmware as well as the WRT-54G that will be my new standard, but until then I'm hanging on to my WRT-54Gs for dear life.
i can sometimes peak 20 Mbps but that's not sustained
realistically, 12 Mbps is sustainable over a long period, with spikes into the 14 - 16 range
it also has mini dropouts from time to time, but the dropouts aren't long enough to cause a TCP socket closure usually, so i don't get http errors or get dropped from online games... just a little 2-3 second burp
not nearly as bad as the DSL modem resetting itself
@corwin01 7 Mbps DSL is standard around here, but when we were using ours, the modem would regularly lose signal when running at that rate and automatically fall back to a slower mode for better stability
and even at 4 - 5 Mbps it'd very frequently just decide to drop the PPP link entirely
I grew up during the unreliable dialup days; we used the unreliable first-generation cable (coax, DOCSIS 1.x, etc) from Comcast; then we used the unreliable first, second, and third-generation DSL from Verizon; now the entire house uses LTE exclusively
it's a method of population control, really -- when there are so many possibilities to what you can do with uncapped high bandwidth uplinks, and those possibilities can lead to prosperity, job opportunities, fame, and so on -- preventing citizens from getting access to that is a way to keep them dependent on you
@allquixotic Okay. I'm trying to set up PowerShell ISE for Solarized, might throw a file out there for anyone who wants to theme it too so I'd like to do it "right" lol. Also I'm not a developer so...
it had pretty lofty speed claims but I don't think it ever really lived up to them
it's basically a physics problem as I understand it -- the frequency band it uses is too high, and RF oscillating at that high a frequency is more easily stopped by solid objects
there is a "sweet spot" that's high enough frequency to carry long distances but low enough frequency to penetrate buildings, and the 700-ish MHz LTE band is basically the frequency to use for wireless communications
I have multiple devices running Windows 8, and would like to sync up the apps that I install on one between the others. Is there a way to enable auto download and installation of apps purchased within Metro Store?
I have multiple devices running Windows 8, and would like to sync up the apps that I install on one between the others. Is there a way to enable auto download and installation of apps purchased within Metro Store?
