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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Comcast Cable Vs AT&T DSL
Pretty interesting. the AT&T DSL Elite service which is $35 a month boasts 6 Mbps Download and 768 Kbps Upload. Comcast cable charges $49 a month for this service. This is how fast my Comcast measured at 9:30 AM on … Continue reading
Buying a Socket 771 Quad-Core Xeon CPU
I’ve recently spent time researching Socket 771 Xeon CPUs, to figure out options when upgrading or building from scratch, finally I’ve been able to connect some dots. There are two series of Quad-Core socket 771 Xeon available: The Clovertown 53XX and the Harpertown 54XX. The Harpertown … Continue reading
Dual Quad-Core workstation on a budget – part 2
In my last post I wrote about trying to obtain a dual quad-core workstation on the cheap, I wrote that buying a new bare-bones dual Xeon setup (case, power supply and empty motherboard) would run $500-$700. Well the reason I started this article is … Continue reading
Trendnet TEW-624UB 300 Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter H/W:B1.1R
Today I noticed that Fry’s is selling the Trendnet TEW-624UB adapter for only $19 (Price is good until December 23rd) . Last month I paid $59. This cheaper model has the same exact UPC as the $59 version, but the hardware revision … Continue reading
New wireless speed record: 71 Mbps with Netgear WNR3500 RangeMax Wireless N Router
I am very excited to be writing this! Finally I’ve seen some decent wireless-n speed with off-the-shelf products. Last week I wrote about finally seeing 38 Mbps with an all Netgear combination: the WNR 3500 Gigabit router and the WNDA 3100 Dual-Band USB adapter. I … Continue reading
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Printing to your Lexmark X9350 over wireless
I’ve been using this printer via USB for some while now, without a hitch. It comes with a wireless adapter built it, so I tried to use that to print with from another machine. No Luck. The other machine was … Continue reading
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How I test wireless products
I’m explaining my wireless testing in detail with this post so I can abbreviate more and hopefully make it quicker to write up product reviews later on. After installing the wireless router and adapter, the main way I test is to do lots of file … Continue reading
Review: Buffalo DriveStation External USB 2.0 Hard Drive 1TB
Everyone (or just me?) has a few hard drives full of pictures, songs, video, and software. If you want to back all of that up, DVDs are not practical. You gotta get a BIG external hard drive you can move from computer to computer. … Continue reading
Dual Quad-Core workstation on a budget – part 1.
I use a Dell precision 490 at work, and it’s wonderful. Two Quad-Core 2.0GHz Xeon E5335′s, 4GB RAM, Raid 0 Striped HDDs. With 8 cpu’s I can run a lot of virtuals and still use the machine. But I’ve been spoiled by this machine, and now I … Continue reading
The experts help me figure out my WLAN problems
I asked my linkedin extended network to help me figure out why I was getting such lousy WLAN performance. This was my question: Why is WLAN still so slow? How come wireless-N products don’t test significantly faster than plain old 802.11G? … Continue reading
