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    Cptnstevez reacted to squirrl in 2 routers 1 network   
    Yes, but you should really only use the other as a switch.
    1. Get the IP address of the primary router. (for example 192.168.0.1)
    2. disconnect from the network and plug the second router into your PC
    3. find the IP of that router. If it's 192.168.0.x then you're fine. If it's the same IP as the router, change the IP to something else (like 100). Disable DHCP (IP addresses should get assigned by one of the routers).
    Then you should be fine. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to manikyath in 2 routers 1 network   
    should specificly state here that ideally you'd want this to be outside the other device's DHCP range, so it wont have potential conflicts.
     
    depending on the brand, 2-99 and 200-254 are usually pretty safe.
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    Cptnstevez got a reaction from Acolyte_of_PC in Network layout showoff   
    Hey mate what software do you use to make this diagram
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    Cptnstevez reacted to -rascal- in Laptop Ram vs Mac Ram?   
    Yes and no...
    You can install non-Apple certified parts into the MacBook Pro...but whether the computer detects it properly, and making it work properly, is another thing.
    There is a Apple diagnostics tool built-in (?), and it will scan for new hardware / changes. It will give you a warning / error it isn't Apple certified.
     
    One of the certified Apple Mac techs that I work with just replaced a person's (university student) MacBook Pro with a replacement third-party battery (student brought it in himself). Battery installs, and holds a charge, but the Apple diagnostics tool freaks out. We only charged the battery up to 55%...so the student will have to find out if the computer will let the battery charge up to 100%.
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    Cptnstevez got a reaction from Mohenjo in Laptop Upgrade Questions   
    yeah i just opened it up and saw sorry. and thanks so much for all ur help its been great
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Mohenjo in Laptop Upgrade Questions   
    SSds draw less power so yes you can replace it with an HDD
     
    Any chance we can know the model of the laptop? 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Mohenjo in Laptop Upgrade Questions   
    I actually have an HP pavilion g4. Yes you can upgrade the ram but most likely both ram slots are taken up. So if you have 4gb of ram its most likely 2x2. So i would recommend picking up a 2 4gb sticks or maybe a single 4gb to upgrade to 6gb. And there is laptop specific ram. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Mohenjo in Laptop Upgrade Questions   
    Other than the size no. And your laptop is ddr3 btw. You can just replace the HDD but you would need a fresh start and your windows key (if your on windows 10 it will remember the key)
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Mohenjo in Laptop Upgrade Questions   
    Yes, both those would work and are great choices. But just so you know there is a newer model of that ssd called the 850 evo but it costs more. The 750 evo is still a great choice. 
     
    WAIT I WAS WRONG, that ram is for mac. i did not see that
    http://www.ebuyer.com/370059-corsair-8gb-ddr3-1600mhz-vengeance-laptop-memory-cmsx8gx3m2a1600c9
     
    this ram would work though
    http://www.ebuyer.com/414290-corsair-8gb-ddr3-1600mhz-2x4gb-laptop-memory-cmso8gx3m2a1600c11
    This ram would also work fine and its like 5 pounds cheaper
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Mohenjo in Laptop Upgrade Questions   
    thats a much older connector. You laptop is not THAT old. The g6 uses the same connectors as that SSD
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    Cptnstevez reacted to pagani123 in Wifi Help   
    yep add a 2 port switch
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    Cptnstevez reacted to bgibbz in Wifi Help   
    Adding a 2 port switch and a wireless access point should work, you may even be able to find an access point that has a switch built in. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Energycore in Please explain these cards to me :)   
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Godlygamer23 in Please explain these cards to me :)   
    CUDA cores/stream processors do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to processing data. These include rendering applications, Folding@home, and PhysX processing(NVIDIA). 
     
    GDDR5 is significantly faster than DDR3 when it comes to raw bandwidth, but one might ask why we use DDR3 with CPUs rather than GDDR5 if it's so much faster. The reason is that while GDDR5 has more raw bandwidth, it has much higher latency, and CPUs need to have very low latency because they don't need huge amounts of bandwidth usually. This can change though if the CPU is handling a lot of data at once, for example during rendering, where a higher clock speed is favored over lower latency(though achieving both is more ideal) because the CPU needs more raw bandwidth.
     
    Clock speed is subjective to the architecture. If you compare a 3570K to an FX 4300 at the same frequency, you'll see exactly what I mean. The 3570K will crush the CPU completely because while the clock speeds and thread counts are the same, the 3570K has a significantly higher IPC than the 4300. A clock speed is how many cycles or operations are completed per second. 
     
    Buses simply allow data to be transferred. They're essentially wires embedded in the board that allow for the memory controllers in the GPU to be connected to the memory chips for example.
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    Cptnstevez reacted to YedZed in Please explain these cards to me :)   
    In brief: 
    Bus: what transfers data on the card, larger numbers better.
    Cuda/Stream Cores/Processors: Kinda like CPU cores, except on a GFX card. They allow it to do lots of parralel tasks. Bigger numbers better.
    DDR(3) is CPU RAM. GDDR(5) is GPU RAM. Bigger is better, for textures.
    Clock speed: How fast GPU (or memory) runs. Bigger is better.
     
    Google is your friend, btw. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Squish4058 in Please explain these cards to me :)   
    Bus is basically a highway, so a wider bus can send more information per pulse
    So a 192 bit bus can send 192 bits over a single cycle, how fast the cycles are on the bus is another thing
     
    Clock speed is basically the amount of cycles on the "brain" part of the card that occur per second, with it only being able to calculate 1 thing per cycle.
    So if you had two identical cards, a higher clockspeed can calculate more per second.

    DDR3 is motherboard ram Gddr5 is graphics card ram (people call it Vram), its basically storage for anything.
    So if you load a game, all the pictures for everything you could look at within say 500m are loaded into vram
    When you load microsoft office, all the pictures, word art, and fonts are loaded into your motherboard ram
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Dual band WiFi means it transmits in both 2.4GHz (good for range) and 5GHz (good for speed) simultaneously. There's a bit more to it than that but in layman's terms that's it.   
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    Cptnstevez got a reaction from Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Oh my god you don't realise how helpful you have just been so I wasnt going mad when I though it weird that a fiver connection had a modem it's because fiber is used for fast transport around the place but because they don't want to yet they have left copper in the streets leading up to each house because it does a "good enough" job for them and dosent validate spending all that money on individual fiber connection for each house they do it for an area. Pls tell me if this on the right track this is me trying to understand it it takes me a while and thank you very much for your help so far. Also could you tell me a little more about Zen I haven't heard of them before 
     
    Hi sorry to bother you just wondered if you had seen my responce
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    OK, first of all the best ISP in the UK is zen Internet. They are a little more expensive then the rest but as with everything you get what you pay for. 
     
    Unless you're lucky the best "fibre" internet you'll be able to get is what's called FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) this is a fibre line to your nearest Street cabinet, using the old copper wire for the last few meters. This currently supports up to 80mb down and around 20mb up depending on how far the copper run is. 
     
    You'll be provided with a modem that bt openreach own and then you'll need a router that supports wan over ethernet. In simple terms phone line into modem, modem into router and away you go. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Yes you're on the right track. The copper is just about good enough for what bt calls the final mile, but in reality it'll be much less than mile. It's a cheap way to get faster speed to the majority of the UK population quickly. The next upgrade bt are rolling out is g.fast. This will start with speeds up to 350mb down rising to 500mb down eventually. This will still use the copper to connect to your house but will allow for "booster" boxes ether down a man hole or on a pole close to the premises so you won't get the drop off in speed over distance. As with everything in the UK and especially bt don't hold you're breath however.
     
    Zen Internet are a UK based ISP although not a very big company they are the very best. I've been using them for at least 9years. You'll get a truly unlimited service (unlike the others who say unlimited but that only applys at certain times of day like virgin media). You'll also receive your full speed all day long as they employ no traffic management like bt (the ISP) do.  I downloaded over a tb in a single month before with no complaints from zen. Their Privacy policy is also second to none. Also the customer service is brilliant, you'll get through to someone in the UK and who knows their stuff. The only downside is the customer service department are only open till 8pm but in 9 years I've only needed them twice.  
     
    I know it looks like I work for zen but I don't, just one of the few companies I can't say enough good things about but like a said, they are expensive but as with everything in this world you get what you pay for. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Of course, although I'm about to drive home from work and collect my children so I might me a bit late with a reply. 
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Nope, I'm a construction plant instructor. I'm not that knowledgeable to be fair but I do have a keen interest in home networking.      
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Seems like a strange question I know but is the house built yet? I bought my house "off the plans" so I paid the electrician £50 to run cat 5 to every room in the house. He also put the BT master socket in the cupboard under the stairs so that has become my "server room" along side the ironing board  
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Wow that netgear one is a bit on the pricey side! The asus one will work fine, it'll connect to the supplied modem with a standard ethernet cable. I have this Asus router but I think it needed a firmware update to support WAN over ethernet.
     
    If you need to run cable round your new place Linus has just done a video about that!
     
     
     As for the cables 
     
     
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    Cptnstevez reacted to Rammix in Hello and could I have some help   
    Yeah man, shoot
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