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Wifi router near fusebox
Can I place a WiFi router near our fusebox?
My concern is whether the fusebox will disturb the WiFi.
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How can I connect a P8 to a P4 motherboard?
I have an older motherboard and I would like to connect a newer power supply to it. The motherboard has a P4 input, while the power supply has a P8 connector only (it is actually a 6 pin + 2 pin ...
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Adobe Flash Player interfering with home internet connection on port 80
I'm having a really bizarre problem with my home internet, specifically when I try to play flash games. The games load fine, but for some reason they disrupt the internet connection of every computer ...
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Is there a survey of real-time internet bottlenecks?
What can a DSL customer expect the ISP to do to ensure good internet connectivity aside from providing the contracted level of "last mile" bit rate?
I almost always get the 1Mb/s data rate I am ...
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Local network accessible but not internet via ethernet card (happens in Windows AND Ubuntu (dual boot) on same machine). What has happened to card?
I have a desktop PC with a 1Gb ethernet card as well as a built-in motherboard 100mb/s ethernet card.
Very recently, internet access using these has stopped working. Initially I thought it was a ...
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Remote location loses connectivity
I have a remote location that has constant internet access using DSL. The remote location only has three Linksys cameras that have internet access from a router. There is no computer on the network. ...
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I need to Update my Kindle for PC Library but I have to do it without an internet connection
I have two computers, both with the Kindle for PC app, and one Android tablet with the Kindle for Android app. One computer has no internet connection. I need to update my library on the computer with ...
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DisplayPort KVM
I need to hook up two machines, each with dual DisplayPort monitors, to a KVM. I'd ideally like to switch via hotkey. I've tried the StarTech KVM switch, but it fails with a 30" display 2560x1600 ...
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External HDD connecting via USB disconnects wireless LAN connection
Strange problem. I have this MEDION Akoya PC that has a dedicated bay to slide an external HDD sold separately.
It's very handy indeed cause the slot is providing a fast USB 3 connection and power ...
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What angle is optimal for the antennas on my wireless network card?
I'm sharing a house with some friends and I'm in the bedroom right up in the attic. The router is right down on the ground floor and I get connectivity issues.
I've found that if I adjust the two ...
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Can't ping but can access internet just fine?
I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on this one, since it's a first for me. I can access the internet just fine with a browser, but using PING or TRACERT from a command prompt just shows requests ...
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SOHO router cannot establish connection from wired -> wireless until pinging from wireless -> wired
I am currently setting up a SOHO network with mixed wired and wireless clients using a consumer-grade 100Mbit/802.11g router. I've found that wireless clients are "invisible" (pings never returned, ...
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Windows Firewall and Android's internet passthrough connection
So long as I have the Windows Firewall turned off, internet passthrough works perfectly. Running without a firewall is not feasible for me so I'm trying to find out which app or port the passthrough ...
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Wifi network undetectable on a Lenovo G470
I have a WPA2 secured network with a visible SSID at home that works perfectly fine with a Dell laptop,a HP netbook and sundry mobile phones. When I try connecting my sister's Lenovo G470, it refuses ...
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Problem with iPad staying connected to wireless access point as signal strength decreases
I'm not really a networking guy, but I need to solve a problem with some WiFi-only iPad 2s that I intend to deploy at work. I just installed six wireless access points (Cisco E2000s) throughout the ...
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Internet connectivity lost and Event Log doesn't work
My Windows 7 (64-bit) machine lost internet connectivity. Rebooting didn't help. On boot-up systray message would appear:
Failed to connect to a windows service. Windows could not connect to the ...
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Why do I get periodic dips in the wireless speeds?
I am using a Netgear WNR3500L router to share my internet connection via WiFi to my home computers. My trouble is that I get periodic dips in wireless speeds every 120 seconds (almost exactly every ...
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Site to Site VPN on the cheap [closed]
Investigating my options on connecting two offices together via a site-to-site VPN for a term of about four months. The primary usage will be collaboration using Unity Asset Server.
Both offices are ...
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Determining where a network problem lies
Lately I find that some of the websites I'm trying to visit aren't loading completely like Slashdot and the MapleStory home page. When I say that, I mean that they're loading and I can actually see ...
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Setting up DNS suffixes, possibly per connection
Okay... I have my laptop, which I carry back and forth between work and home. At work I need a DNS suffix to be able to properly resolve server names. Originally I was adding this in on the TCP/IP ...
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Debugging site connection problem [closed]
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How do I diagnose not being able to reach a specific website as an end user?
Yesterday (Saturday, 7 May) I lost the ability to connect to eclipse.org on my local ...
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TP-Link TL-WA901ND Wireless Access Point extremely sensitive about location
I bought a TP-Link TL-WA901ND Wireless Access Point (AP) to replace my Linksys WRT54GL, because i wanted 802.11n wireless.
However, i'm having huge problems with getting my laptop to connect. The AP ...
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Windows 7 won't identify network
my Windows 7 machine has lost the ability to identify network connections and connect to the internet. both my LAN and WLAN connections to the router are affected. only thing I can think of ...
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What common tools can you use to diagnose the quality of an internet connection?
I apologize I think this question is in the wrong forum, so....
How can I tell if the DSL/CABLE/... connection to my home is generally working?
Right now, the various broadband speed tests all show ...
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Windows 7 not automatically detecting proxy settings; cannot connnect to the internet
I just recently installed Windows 7 SP 1 on my computer. However it failed, and I rolled back the installation, only to now have an error with my ethernet port, saying that I cannot connect, for the ...
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I can't connect to my network, except in safe mode
My laptop cannot connect to my network all of a sudden except in safe mode. When it boots, it will show the networks available in the tray popup, but if I click connect on any, it says "Unable to ...
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TeamSpeak 3 Disconnects
I've recently had a few random TS3 mass disconnects and I'm am curious to know where I may find any applications that can help me determine the cause of any types of TS3 server disconnections as we ...
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Intermittent loss of internet connectivity with good wireless signal
I recently bought a HP touch smart running windows 7. At random times, internet connectivity is lost while the wireless signal remains strong. The only way to restore connectivity is to restart the ...
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Loss of wireless network connectivity when playing video via HDMI cable
New to Super User, so I hope this question fits in with the guidelines.
Very strange problem I am having, and I am at a loss as to how to continue troubleshooting this one. The basic problem is that ...
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My wireless router stops working temporarily whenever opening a folder in Windows 7
Whenever I open my Downloads folder (the one that came with the default install, where my browser and torrent downloads go) on my Windows 7 PC, my Internet connect dies for a few minutes. I'm usually ...
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Windows Live Mesh Connectivity Issue
I have Windows Live Mesh installed on a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 system. Whenever I attempt to sign in to it I get an error message saying, "There might be a problem with your internet connection." ...
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Graphical broadband connectivity logger for Linux/Ubuntu?
Our home broadband (TWC/RoadRunner/San Diego) intermittently drops out for minutes at a time. In WinXP, I had a logger that would ping one or more sites (e.g. Yahoo.com), log the ping times, and ...
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Where does Windows Vista & 7 connect to test network/internet connectivity?
I haven't a windows machine to run a sniffer on to figure this out myself, so I'm here.
When Vista or 7 connect, they then do something and report either no connectivity, local only, local network ...
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Is there a way to Blacklist/Hide Wireless Networks in Windows 7 Available Networks List?
There are a several Wireless networks viewable from my home which I want to blacklist/hide from the the available networks listing, by SSID Name.
Is this possible, and if not, why?
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Problems using PC as a media server with PS3
I recently got a PS3 and decided to take advantage of the fact that it can be used to stream movies by making my PC a media server. I've done this in the past with the same router I have now before I ...
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Strange Network Card Issue (not showing in device manager)
First of all, apologies, I posted this on ServerFault earlier but realised it'd probably be better here.
A friend asked if I could have a look at one of their computers because they kept losing all ...
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Verizon Walled Garden - internet works
I keep getting "Verizon Walled Garden" messages, although I can still connect to the internet. Google.com occasionally triggers the screen and DropBox can't establish secure connection.
I am working ...
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Cable modem and router connectivity issues
So, I have a router that is plugged into my cable modem. I was getting connectivity issues, so I plugged my machine directly into the modem to find out which was the weak link. I could get ...
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improve modem receptivity
I have a CDMA modem that I use to access the internet.
I'm having some network issue. When I browse outside the room, I am connected and everything's fine. but when I enter the room(which is 3 cm ...
