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redhawk

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  1. A broken connection usually results in weird IP addresses like 169.254.232.225 in this mode you'll find that ipconfig.exe or arp.exe are ineffective.

    Also your IP department claim they've done nothing to their equipment and yet it would appear your machine is being denied access maybe by mac address or computer name.

     

    A few things to try out:

     

    - update your Intel wireless drivers via the Toshiba driver site.

     

    - open the wifi tray icon and use the "Repair" option

     

    - open device manager, disable wifi, enable wifi and rescan networks

     

    - open system properties and change your computer name

     

    - change your wifi mac address (spoofing)

     

    - try a bootable Live Linux CD like Ubuntu to see if wifi works.

     

    Richard S.

  2. Well, this is a dual core atom processor, so instead of 1.66, it is 3.32 GHZ.

    Most applications are complied for single core operation only multi-core aware applications can use all available cores to make the above claim they're running at twice the clock speed.

    So to say a 1.66GHz dual core runs at 3.32GHz is nonsense it depends on the Operating System and the application you're using.

     

    Richard S.

  3. To start with netbook processors are not very quick and more or less comparable to a Pentium III CPU.

    As for 64bit processors I don't believe they run faster than 32bit however they do have the advantage of address more than 4GB of RAM.

    If you have no intention of upgrading your RAM to 4GB or above than I would suggest you stick with a 32bit Operating System for better driver support and software compatibility.

     

    Picking the right Operating System depends your requrements, if its casual browsing and watching YouTube videos then XP is all you really need.

    However if you're feeling a little more adventurous then perhaps Windows 7 (with the fancy crap disabled), Android X86 or Ubuntu should suffice.

     

    Richard S.

  4. Nice outage did someone run CCleaner on the server machine?? :lol:

     

    Obviously some kind of database error I guess the only fix was a roll back which ultimately meant losing a few recent posts.

     

    btw: is it my imagination or has the site favicon changed?

     

    Richard S.

  5. Thanks for the advice but I really only want to know if anyone else had similar experiences with the BBC iPlayer.

    As for my computer and internet they check out so I'm coming to the conclusion it's probably a bandwidth issue at the BBC or my ISP.

    Normally I don't have a problem watching iPlayer content via crappy Flash but when it does acts up again the download and VLC Player method never fails. :)

     

    Richard S.

  6. To login to your router use http://192.168.1.254 and use the password combinations I had mentioned above in this page.

    Once you're inside look for wireless options and enable it as well as enabling WPA/WPA2 PSK encryption to prevent spying and unauthorised access.

     

    This video might be of some help (note his gateway IP is 192.168.1.1 but your gateway is 192.168.1.254)

    He also selected WEP encryption but you should use WPA pre-shared key instead for better protection.

     

     

    Richard S.

  7. and I'll ask it again, which 3000 problems has CCleaner detected??

     

    The reason for this is because CCleaner is known for false reporting of unused file types and probably with other things too.

    So although you have been fixing them with CCleaner it's possible Vista has been restoring the original keys for some reason.

     

    Richard S.

  8. Although it may appear that CCleaner was connected to your " 1962 : no operating system found press F1 to repeat bootsequence" error message I believe this is more hardware related.

     

    If you open Event Viewer (start, run eventvwr.exe) do you see any "Disk" error events in the System logs??

     

    Richard S.

  9. This has happened on more than one occasion but nevertheless it's very annoying.

     

    When I'm watching an iPlayer clip it seems to be having a weird buffering problem and skips backwards a few seconds starts playing the audio twice but at a different interval.

    If I pause the video the other audio stream carries on playing and eventually stops.

    Sometimes when watching a video it starts doing the animated buffering sequence on top even though the video is still playing in the background.

     

    Has anyone else noticed this lately??

     

    Richard S.

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