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It has been a pleasure to watch the vast quantity of high quality content you guys pump out daily, I mean I don't care at all about mechanical keyboards or expensive headphones but I watch those videos anyway because you guys make them so entertaining. Best of luck for the future, and I hope I win! haha.

I take it I wasn't meant to be tagged in this

I like the Matt IPS Display.

I have tried playing with the frequency to no avail. If it is the aerial I can just replace the aerial but I am a student and not fabulously rich so I want to be (mostly) sure of the problem before I invest in fixing it. Thanks for your suggestions though.

Hey Guys, I have a TP-Link 701ND Wireless Access point (linked below) http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-150Mbps-Wireless-Access-Point/dp/B0043E6ZF8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382967536&sr=8-2&keywords=701nd I live in a university halls and I use it to connect to the internet wirelessly on my laptop when I'm in bed using it or when I am in the kitchen or on other floors etc. It has worked great providing signal in a multitude of places including 2 floors above, 2 floors below, my phone was also picking up signal from quite far away in the campus garden. Recently however, I have been unable to get connection in the next room on any of my devices, and even the signal where I am sitting around a meter away from it is choppy with semi-regular disconnects. Since this affects multiple devices I have narrowed it down to being a problem inherent with the access point as opposed to my laptop or whatever. I would imagine it could be either: Interference. The Access Point. The Aerial. 1) I am sceptical that it would be interference, while the halls are most definitely have plenty of things that could cause interference including the Universities own wifi and the maybe one or two other people in halls that have a similar thing. The reason I am sceptical is that I am not aware of any changes in the last couple of days that would cause interference, I shouldn't be affected from a metre away and changing the channel did nothing to help. That being said I am quite naive when it comes to networking so perhaps you guys have a better idea. 2) I am not sure how I could diagnose it being the access point, I would imagine since I can get signal in my room and not in other rooms it isn't this since I would imagine whatever the problem was it would be consistent. 3) The Aerial is what I would assume it is, but I'm really not sure how to eliminate the first two fully. So any help or advise diagnosing the problem would be very helpful in analysing the problem and the potential cost of repair. Thanks in advance for any contributions.

Thank you all for your suggestions, I'll have to look into taking my phone to repair shop to get the charge port replaced.

So first of all I apologise if this is in an incorrect forum, I did have a quick flick through and this seemed the most appropriate. Essentially I have the original Galaxy Note and I love it, and I'm not planning on upgrading for a long while yet. But it needs to be charged up every day, and so if I come home drunk and forget to put it on charge or if I stay over when I hadn't intended then the next day I won't be able to use my phone all day, which becomes especially annoying when I have to commute into London for instance and don't have any music to listen to. I am not sure however, whether to buy a battery bank which has the advantage of not having me replace the battery or whether to buy a spare battery with some sort of battery charge pack. One reason I might choose the latter over the former is that the charge port on my phone is a bit temperamental, it still works but I have to bend the microusb head back slightly (I'm sure I could get it fixed at some point). Whichever way I go however, I want to buy a good quality product. I live in the UK so obviously it being available over here. Money isn't really an issue providing I am getting good value. So I guess that's it, if people could recommend some good quality products as well as maybe help me decide which direction to go in, that would be amazing.

But what you have to take into consideration is the difference privacy from your peers and privacy from Government. There are many opinions I hold about individuals for instance that I want to keep private, but when it comes to privacy from Government - by which I mean law enforcement agencies for example - it's a different story. The key line is 'those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear'. The CIA/FBI don't care about your porn habits, or whether you like your mother-in-law, what they do care about is whether you're a terrorist threat, or are committing fraud etc. It is in your interest to sacrifice your right privilege to privacy even if you don't think it is, because it will aid is solving and preventing crimes which could ultimately and significantly be beneficial to you.

What this comes down to is 'do you trust your Government'? and I don't mean do you trust them to fulfil your interests, but do you trust them to use this information to prosecute and or prevent people who/from breaking the law, rather than for keeping tabs on people to fulfil more sinister motives. Personally I have a preference my continued existence and safety over whether someone working for some Government department whom I will likely never meet knows some likely trivial facts about my person. For me I like the idea that I (but more importantly everyone else) is being monitored, and while this is the US and not the UK where I live I would like for a similar system to be in place. Then again I broadly agree with the laws of the Country I am in and don't think the Government or Law Enforcement agencies are running around trying to silence me. Privacy from my Neighbours and Peers? sure! Privacy from the Law? Give me more Cameras and monitoring any day.