Recent content by Quadrillion

The transfer speed from one LAN computer to the LAN video server is now firmly at 1 mbps. Disabling the energy saving feature seems to have solved that problem. I've been wanting a new router for a while and so I ordered the one above. Doubt if it will speed up that figure, but for $20, it's...

Sure enough, among the fifty adapter settings on the video server there was one for "enable minimal power" or something like that. I disabled that and there has been no degradation of speed since I rebooted last night. Might have done the trick, thanks. Will let you know. On the router: it's an...

Good idea on the energy saving settings. I'll check the video server's adapter settings. The other part - I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Be glad I use wifi, that is a disaster???? You mean that's a disaster in Win 10?

I have a Windows 8 laptop that sits by my TV that I use solely as a video and audio server. I leave it running all the time, logged in to my home network. It never goes into full sleep mode, because long after the display goes off, I can still upload files to it. Right after a reboot, I can...

I read about as much as I could stand on this subject and jumped through the hoops (Norton removal tool, sf /scannow,, services.msc, etc.) trying to turn on Defender on an 8.1 Gateway PC. No luck. It's a travesty that these vendors allow this to go on. I finally had to install Panda Free AV, and...

the browser isn't the question. The problems I had were caused by not logging out. Worth mentioning, but probably not the cause of your symptoms.

After you check your router settings, make sure that you log out.

Using Firefox, I checked my router settings one day, but instead of logging off, I just closed the browser. Immediately began to have connectivity problems for a day or two. I went back in and logged out this time and it solved the problems.

Wireless transfers on my home network have always been pretty fast. Win 7 Laptop to XP desktop (the latter is R46ed to the 802.11 router) runs at about 2.5 Megs/sec. I recently added a cheap Dell laptop (Win 8) and immediately noticed the transfers between the two laptops was slow - around...

In layman's terms, it sounds like the upgrade is still a little bit of a crapshoot: Maybe it will go through without a snag or maybe I'll have an issue or two which could require a little research, and a few hours to a few days of downtime. I don't go on the web with this laptop, so security...

For me the real question is: If you've got your computer set up like you want it, and everything is working perfectly, is there any reason to upgrade? Could you find yourself two-years down the road with a new problem (probably due to a microsoft update) only to find that upgrading to 8.1...

Well said, pparks

I had a weird thing happen that's worth mentioning. After reading an article on security, i wanted to make sure that router settings could only be changed by the computer connected using a cable. I used Firefox to open modem settings. Everything was okay, so I closed the browser. That night I...

Greetings! Since 8 debuted, I've been hearing all the whines about the lack of a "Start" menu and wondering what the big deal was. I almost never use it. Since XP, I've used a quick launch bar for literally everything, and I love it. It didn't take long to add it to a recently acquired Win 8...