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I love my SSD. Single greatest performance improvement I have ever done to a computer before. But definitely not a necessity if you are looking to save a bit of money.

Coax would be what your cable TV would come through. If you have satellite they also use coax lines. There is a possibility that you could use existing phone lines to get service from one part of the house to another, but it is a very small possibility. You can only have one modem hooked up at a time on any given circuit. All phone circuits use one pair, which is two wires. Ethernet only needs two pair (4 wires), but is supposed to have 4 pair (8 wires). If your house is a little older most likely the cable running through your wall is the normal red/green/yellow/black which is two pair, and there is nothing you can do since you will need three pair. However if your house has cat3 or cat5 (4 pair) run to the phone jacks you can rig up something that would work (but there would be a decent amount of interference, probably won't work well). Basically at the phone jacks upstairs and downstairs you would separate the cable into two jacks, one with one pair going to it (most likely the blue/whiteblue) which is what was originally hooked up to the jack for phone, then on the other jack you would put two pair (probably green/whitegreen and orange/whiteorange) in the 1,2,3,6 pin slots. Then you have to find how the phone cable is run in your house, most likely it is going to one spot somewhere next to your fuse box. All the cables from the phone jacks should be going to this spot, then you just need to find out which two cables are coming from the two jacks you are dealing with (this part will suck if you don't have a toner, you will have to take them off one by one and check to see if you still have a dial tone on that jack). Once you find which two cables, you just scotch lock the green to green, whitegreen to whitegreen, orange to orange, and whiteorange to whiteorange. The blue/whiteblue will all ready be connected in some manner. That will not work well, but it will work somewhat. If all your phone cable isn't going to one place in the house then you will have to go jack by jack and scotch lock the two pair for ethernet together, and then it might work. More likely the attenuation will be too high and it won't.

Do you have an extra coax cable hookup anywhere near both spots? You could get a media converter (RF to ethernet). We've used those occasionally and they work fairly well.

No, they are just for one license on one computer.

This is a good coincidence, I just bought an iPod (classic 160gb) last week and have spent every waking moment since then trying to organize my music. I just finished a few moments ago getting all the file names/paths uniform, now I get to fix the tags... It is taking a while since I have a little over 19,000 songs (115gb). I have my file structure hierarchy like this (dedicated 250gb hdd called Music) "Music (E:)\artist\AlbumYear - AlbumTitle\DiscNumber\TrackNumber - TrackTitle". So Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb would be: "E:\Pink Floyd\1979 - The Wall\Disc 2\06 - Comfortably Numb.mp3" With the proper folder structure and naming convention you should be able to get all the info you need without tags if they don't have them or a device doesn't use them correctly. But I want my iPod to display everything correctly, so I am going to go through and check the ID3v2 tags for every single song and fill it in correctly, then re-import my songs into iTunes, then connect my iPod. That way all the info is correct.

They are awesome the 50% of the time that they work. There can be a problem with GFIs that prevent them from working at all in some houses, then randomly in others, then sometimes great everywhere except the one place you need them, but there are times when they work well completely and save a ton of time on an install. So I'd be wary of buying them, unless the store has a good return policy.

If you don't have any existing parts then building one can sometimes be a little more than pre-built if spending around $500. More than $600 though and you are going to be better off building your own.

Are you sure they were wireless and not powerline ethernet adapters? Generally the wireless network extenders don't have an ethernet port on them (Some do exist, didn't think Best Buy sold them though). Around $115 is the normal cost for the dlink powerline adapters, which transfer data over the power lines in your house. We use them sometimes for IPTV installs since you can't get enough speed/quality out of wireless. The dlinks aren't quite good enough though, we buy comtrend brand which are around $200 for the pair.

If I had more time I would love to play this game. The creators of it are the same people (or studio) who did the King's Field games, which I absolutely love. KF2 wasThe first game I got for the original PS, I remember it being really hard at first also.

If you lived in the Cincinnati area I would run some ethernet cable for you, for a price... If you have an unfinished basement running a cable to every room in the house isn't that hard, you can buy a box of 1000ft cable for around $40 and then all you need are the jacks/mounts/inserts for each room which totals about $3 per. If you have more than one device that needs a connection in a specific room then buy a cheap switch, or run two cables there, or if you don't care about power over ethernet then you can get get two connections out of one cat5 cable. If you have a finished basement, but not drop ceilings, then it can get pretty complicated, if not impossible to hide it well. But it is always better to connect wired, especially for gaming.

Machete - AWESOME. I would expect a decent amount of people not to like it though, if you go into this movie expecting anything other than what it was then you will probably be disappointed and think it is bad. Just from watching the first fake trailer in Grindhouse and knowing Rodriguez was behind it I had an idea of what to expect, and it was exactly what I thought it would be, except even more enjoyable. EDIT: Another one... Jonah Hex - About as bad as I expected, which was pretty bad.

Bride and Prejudice - It was ok I guess, just not my type of movie.

He could try using it for a while while it is wired to the modem as well, or just check to see if the light on the modem indicates that he loses sync when someone calls. Either way would tell us if it is wireless interference or not. If it turns out to be that you could log into the router and choose a different channel (use 1, 6 or 11) and that might work.

I'm curious about that now, do you remember what the filter said on it (if anything)?

The Netscape accelerated internet, and all "faster" dialup services are more or less scams. You still only get 56k from them all, no exceptions. They "simulate" faster speeds by compressing data, meaning less to send. This won't work on things that are already compressed like music or videos. I don't know of any residential service that offers 130Mbps speeds, anywhere. There are a decent amount of places that offer 100/100Mbps, but they are few and far between in the Canada/USA area. May I ask what ISP you use?

Not quite, the xDSL modem should not be filtered. Not always , it depends on your internal wiring. - MY ADSL modem iis filtered and works fine, i'd say about half of our customers have filtered modems, half don't. It's possible it may not be a phone, I've seen DirectTV and other TV that connects to a phonejack for programming updates cause similar issues. Heres what i'd tell my customers Unplug everything that goes into a phonejack - Run a straight DSL connection from the wall to the modem - No filter. if it syncs up - (if not, filter it) Plug in one phone and filter - place a call - do one device at a time and you should have the device pinpointed down What kind of technology does your company use? You should never have a filter on the cord going to a DSL modem (an inline splitter with a filtered and unfiltered side doesn't count as having a filter on the modem line cord, assuming you are plugged into the unfiltered side). DSL transmits on a much higher frequency than POTS so a simple filter on all phone lines that cuts off all higher frequencies would prevent getting noise on phones, and I just have never heard of a filter doing the opposite, I don't even see how it would work.

Technically any place from North Canada to the southern part of Chile are all part of the Americas, though generally America does just refer to the US. There's nothing pretentious about that, it is just a shorter way to say the USA's name, like saying Germany instead of Federal Republic of Germany or China instead of People's Republic of China.

But is the difference worth upgrading from say the standard Disk "Ultimate Collection 3 Disc" to the new Blu-Ray version? Where is the line drawn? Ahh, I misunderstood what situation you were in. It's not too tough a choice when you have the DVD collection that has more stuff than the blu-ray collection, I would say it is not worth it. The tough choices come when the blu-ray and DVD have basically the same extras, and you already own the DVD, is it worth it to upgrade. I've fallen on the "no" side 90% of the time so far for monetary reasons. The quality increase is significant from DVD to blu-ray though so if I had a little extra money it would be closer to 50/50. If you don't own either, then it is definitely worth it to go for the blu-ray (assuming there is a good transfer). For the example of Casablanca they did a new 8k scan of the film and really cleaned it up so it looks great. Old movies that had the original film stored properly still have the potential for much better quality than even blu-ray can get. Depending on screen size and distance you are sitting away the DVD to blu-ray comparison can be very noticeable, and the difference between blu-ray and something like cinema 4k could even be noticeable.

Blu-ray all the way. If you have a decent setup the difference between their quality and DVD is staggering. If the transfer is good you will notice a big difference in old movies as well, Casablanca looks beautiful on blu-ray. Your other example of animation is hit or miss, once again depending on source and transfer. Almost all movies are better on blu-ray though. I still do buy very, very occasionally a DVD if for some reason I really want it, it is cheap and the blu-ray isn't out yet.

I am an Internet Technician at a local ISP. Since it is a pretty small company my job is very, very broad. Main part of job is handling trouble tickets, from first level to third level, and also some of the engineering stuff if need be. Also handle pro-installs.

There already is a Spoiler warning in the Topic Description! :thumbup: Thanks though. :) I'm really interested to see where some of the story lines go, yeah. Which do you think don't look "interesting?" None really stick out in my mind. The Schuester/Sylvester/Beiste dynamic could be good, but that's mostly because I like anything with Sylvester, she makes the show for me.

Put "spoilers" in the topic title so that we don't have to use spoiler tags throughout. People shouldn't be stupid enough to check out a topic for a TV series and not expect to see spoilers for episodes that aired but for some reason they always complain. EDIT: I did like this season opener about the same as the last season. They set down lots of new character arcs some of which could be interesting but others not so much.

I'm not sure, but why would the movies finally make you realize that? The movies actually weren't really all that great. The series though, that was just epic. I was actually extremely surprised that the new season is just as good as the first four, I didn't think that would happen at all. Nah, it's just coming back to it, it was also the last season, too. ;o On topic, Into the Wild Green Yonder. Missing Bender's Big Score. >_> I gotcha, that makes sense.

Outside of my house I haven't worn shorts in probably 7 years. I even golf in jeans. I just see no purpose to them, jeans don't make all that much difference than shorts in the summer, so you can easily wear them year round. When it gets cold out though you can definitely tell the difference, you don't want to be wearing shorts then. They aren't able to be worn enough to justify buying them in my opinion. EDIT: That argument actually really doesn't hold up now that I think about it. I just came up with it because it sounded weird to say I just don't like wearing shorts.

I bought a handgun two weekends ago. It took 10 minutes to go through the checks. There are checks though, if I was a felon or not a resident of Indiana I wouldn't have been able to get one.