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Help with internets

System:
Dell Inspiron 1520
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2Ghz 2gig RAM 32bit
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
My Internet has been acting up lately — just a series of kicking me on and off. When I do get on, I seem to be capped at like 10kb/s whenever I try to download anything. I tried diagnosing it on [...]

Recommend a new laptop for me. v. help

Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]

i NEED a raid card

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

Is it posibble to use iPod as a hard drive?

So I have this Dell in my home, thats been collecting dust the past few years, because the hard drive fryed up or something during a power surge. The support guy said to put in a new hard drive.

I’m wondering, instead of going out and buying a hard drive, could I use my blank iPod [...]

Laptop temperature monitoring/trending?

I have a Dell Insprion 1520 laptop with an Nvidia 8600M GT gpu. I’m reading about the huge problem that nvidia is having with that particular chip. So, I wanted to start monitoring my system temps to keep an eye on it. Are there any good monitoring tools that can help keep [...]

People that have dealt with newegg

About how long does the shipping usually take. I am in Illinois and the status was changed to shipped within the last hour. Is Saturday possible?I usually get stuff next day since they have a warehouse in NJ, but they also have other warehouses so it depends.

I have a case being shipped from NJ and [...]

Duo vs Quad Core + comp specs

So I was talking to this guy at a computer company, and he basically said I’d be better off with an awesome Duo core computer than an decent quad core system. Among the reasons he gave, the main one was that most programs don’t make use of the quad core. So basically, it’s a waste [...]

shipping a computer

I’ll be needing to ship my computer (desktop tower) across the country and I was wondering if anyone had experience with this? I was thinking of removing all the parts and wrap them up. Or just filling up the computer with the peanut foam stuff and wrap up the computer. Any advice [...]

Wanna get my A+ cert - Find me a good book!

I was thinking of just getting the VERY top seller (the one by Michael Meyers), but then I figured maybe one wiht a more recent publish date (like the one by J. Brooks towards the bottom of the page)?
Help? Thanks.I’ve used study guides from fravo.com for a few certs and they are amazing…
They also guarantee [...]

Wireless N speeds

So, I just bought a Linksys router (WRT160N) with wireless N. I’m noticing that my Dell laptop with the Intel 4965 wireless N adapter is only getting 54Mbps. Is there anything I can do to help increase that? I just upgraded my drivers to the latest version, but that’s not helping. [...]