RobinS

I seriously thought that it was a relative from Yvonnes side...

Personal attacks against members are not permitted.
I'm not really a member so much as an administrator and I welcome all constructive criticism.
If I didn't I could just delete this whole thread.
Please don't call people stupid for having a different opinion, however baseless it may appear to be to you.

If you guys really think someone who runs a business with (8? 9? how many is it now Linus?) employees, is going to have a changed opinion because they get to keep a 600usd phone.. You guys need to wake up and try being in a real business, and not serve food at the local McDonalds.
 
No one in their right mind would sacrifice their whole integrity, and the jobs of potentially 10+ people for something like that.

A lot of assumptions being made here.
We don't take money to do reviews. We never have.
We take money to do advertisements, which are never labeled as reviews.
NVIDIA provided the graphics cards (and Cooler Master sent cases and coolers, ASUS sent motherboards, Intel sent CPUs, Kingston sent SSDs and RAM, Swiftech sent water cooling gear) for our editing workstations for product placement in the whole room water cooling series of videos we produced featuring this hardware extensively.
In the grand scheme of things, $6000 of graphics cards (don't imagine that's their BOM cost on them either) is a great deal for 1-2M impressions on a series of videos about using them.. but those videos were NOT a review. They were about a clearly sponsored (we said it was more than once) outrageous project.
As for sending "keeper" vs "loaner" units of hardware, yeah for many products we just don't do loaners anymore, but more than anything else this is to do with me not feeling like it's worth my time to play email tag for shipping labels and spend an hour driving to FedEX and filling out stupid international bill of landing and commercial invoice nonsense over like a $100 item that costs more to send back than to just not bother with anyway.
That and quite frankly even a negative review (for some reason) often generates a lot of sales for the manufacturer.. so as far as I'm concerned they can eat the cost of the item and I'll do whatever I want with it when we're done reviewing it - whether that's continuing to use it personally (Pebble Steel and iPhone 6 come to mind) - or re-visiting it only when we need to re-do our comparative numbers (here's a lesson on why this is necessary and we can't just re-use old numbers)
And on the subject of the Pebble and iPhone 6 - these are both items that were NOT provided by the manufacturer. One was purchased for my own use and the other was provided by a separate sponsor who makes skins for phones (dBrand), but I didn't necessarily mention this at the time because who cares? It doesn't colour my impressions of the device.
Here's an item I wasn't allowed to keep and won one of the two editor's choice awards I've ever given out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1uj6wQTu58
Here's an item was allowed to keep that I ripped apart saying it was worse across the board than the two similar products from other manufacturers that I compared it against: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1aCNrjV64
Here's an item I was allowed to keep that I basically ripped apart on camera and sent it back anyway because it had so little value to me I didn't even want to give it to a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AgcltUM9s
And I could do this all day..
You may notice that most of the items we review we are fairly positive about. There is a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with being paid to review it.
I don't generally bother to review stuff that I already know is stupid junk.
The bottom line is this. You can either trust me or not trust me. Ultimately that's your deal. My job is to do what I do, and the people who recognize it for what it is - my opinion being given to you - will follow, and the others can go find someone who maybe they think "hasn't sold out" but might just "happen to agree with them" to listen to. Enjoy.

well i had to reinstall windows twice in a month, so downloading all the updates and games on steam again is around 300GB for me, yes i could back them up but whats the point of "unlimited" then:P

I will! :p and we aren't the only ones with that problem. There are many of us ^^

The Asus is a router so it'll be a lot more packed with features and WiFi performance is apparently stellar on these. Difference is probably in the price though.

No problem mate. Anytime. Networking is kinda what I do for a living and I know it can be pretty confusing sometimes. Feel free to PM if you have any questions.

Please post if you manage this, I've exactly the same problem with telenet, wifi is so bad! Also have the same router /modem thing

Thanks for the response, I know that dutch is very hard for those whom doesn't speak it or aren't used to hear it :D
Yeah I heard about the bridging but the modem-router that they provided hasn't got a proper interface to change the settings. You need to use the site of telenet and the options they provide you are poorly and not really made for advanced users. But i'll look into it and I will post further updates of what I went for. 
Thanks again for the effort! ;p

Oh lol ive the same shit in my house and it has bad wireless!

Hi, I'm belgian too and I have telenet as well

you're up so late! it's like 1am in Belgian! (But I guess I am too :P)

The telenet routers/modems aren't that great, it takes hours for my portforward settings to apply!
Fun note: I recently called their support to indicate this problem (I was very nice to them) and the guy on the phone didn't know what portforwarding was...

it just so happens that telenet has 3 types of internet subscriptions: 30 mbps down / 60 mbps down / 120 mbps down....upspeed and downloadlimits vary...
Judging by your speeds it seems like you have a 30mbps connection. The general wifi speed carries up to: 11 , 54 and 300 mbps
 
802.11b offered up to 11 megabits per second (Mbps) 802.11a and 802.11g offer up to 54 Mbps 802.11n offers up to 300 Mbps

(copied this from: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wireless/f/wirelessspeed.htm)

The way I see it your acces point that is built in in the telenet router either limits to 54 or 300 mbps. so I think youur subsciption is what's causing the slow download speeds.
I disabled the telenet wireless networking and used my own router/cables. (I have their 120 mbps down and 5 mbps up subsciption)

Also note the telenet offers "fibernet", but only by name, the speeds they offer are nowhere near fiber speed. they like to fool you!

(if you want faster internet in belgium you can have a look at snow http://snow.be/nl/extras/internet  they offer nice speeds at a low price, though I don't know if they offer good service or anything..)