Experiences with non-techies

[Snickerzz]

80Mb is fine for a home network with only a few devices using the internet. A school will need  way more than that if more than a few teachers can watch youtube at once.

My school connection is way slower than that. On a good day it will be 5Mb/s.

Well with my experience with speedtest, it tells you what you currently could get if you were to download something or whatever. I did the speedtest I did was mid day.

[brickster]

80Mb is fine for a home network with only a few devices using the internet. A school will need  way more than that if more than a few teachers can watch youtube at once.

My school connection is way slower than that. On a good day it will be 5Mb/s.

My school only has 30Mb/s

[BOT Edward]

Whilst at college I had an issue with the wireless card in the netbook i was using and due to it being school equipment I had to go through he schools IT helpdesk.

They had a trainee on and I quote he said "it looks like there's an error, we will need to replace the laptop and overclock the wireless for maximum gigaspeeds", the hardest part was trying not to laugh in his face 

[Darkman]

My school only has 30Mb/s

My school has 30/66... lol

[RedSphyxis]

Would this even work? Idk really

 

edit: Oh wait it won't I think. Since they'd need different drivers to communicate with each other.

[Frankie]

Would this even work? Idk really

 

 

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edit: Oh wait it won't I think. Since they'd need different drivers to communicate with each other.

 

OH MY, IT'S A USB VIDEO CARD!!!

 

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[Boink]

Would this even work? Idk really

 

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edit: Oh wait it won't I think. Since they'd need different drivers to communicate with each other.

 

It might work. That looks like a printer port on the computer which adapts to... something (I can't tell what the first adapter goes to) to serial to ps2 to usb. All of which are driverless conversions (of the ones I can identify anyway). That said, whether or not they all carry enough power to run a flash drive is a different question entirely.

[Oasis]

It might work. That looks like a printer port on the computer which adapts to... something (I can't tell what the first adapter goes to) to serial to ps2 to usb. All of which are driverless conversions (of the ones I can identify anyway). That said, whether or not they all carry enough power to run a flash drive is a different question entirely.

Fairly certain having enough power to run it would factor into the "Will this work?" question, so really, probably not.

[Jambls]

Well with my experience with speedtest, it tells you what you currently could get if you were to download something or whatever. I did the speedtest I did was mid day.

Ahh. I see what you mean. My bro did a test when there was nobody there (before school started) and he got 60Mb/s.

[Wauthar]

Would this even work? Idk really

 

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edit: Oh wait it won't I think. Since they'd need different drivers to communicate with each other.

Ah yes, I know this picture. Fun fact: the USB drive is plugged into a PS2 converter, so it would be way less of a hassle to plug the PS2 converter in the actual PS2 port, wouldn't it? Still don't know if it would work.

 

Remembered another story: my mother was constantly complaining about her Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1st generation) being slow after my dad had played some Angry Birds, or when I looked something up on the internet. Thing is, that thing is ancient by now and she wouldn't understand that everything with old hardware gets slower when numerous updates are installed...

She got a new tabled recently, though. (finally )

[Guest]

Ah yes, I know this picture. Fun fact: the USB drive is plugged into a PS2 converter, so it would be way less of a hassle to plug the PS2 converter in the actual PS2 port, wouldn't it? Still don't know if it would work.

 

Remembered another story: my mother was constantly complaining about her Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1st generation) being slow after my dad had played some Angry Birds, or when I looked something up on the internet. Thing is, that thing is ancient by now and she wouldn't understand that everything with old hardware gets slower when numerous updates are installed...

She got a new tabled recently, though. (finally )

A factory reset tends to help with slowness until you start having too many apps running in the background again. A quick fix is to hard reboot the tablet but that doesn't last as long as a factory reset.

[Wauthar]

A factory reset tends to help with slowness until you start having too many apps running in the background again. A quick fix is to hard reboot the tablet but that doesn't last as long as a factory reset.

Oh believe me, it was being rebooted multiple times a day because it would just hang when it wanted to. A factory reset has never been done, because it was too much of an inconvenience to transfer all the files etc.

So my mother complained, but didn't want anything to be done about it.

[MikeS159]

My mum used to work as an accountant in a garage. Her boss paid someone to come in and install remote desktop software on her work computer (obviously hadn't heard of TeamViewer). My mum couldn't logon from her home PC, after a bit of trouble shooting I asked her if she left the work PC on. She hadn't... she didn't realise the other PC would need to be on to remote desktop into it.

[Akolyte]

i bought a pc second hand from cex yesterday (or so) (in the uk CEX is a store that buys and sells phones/games/pc parts/dvd's/music etc you get the idea)

written as a "hp core2duo 1055t 3.06ghz/4gb/1tb/gt220/linux"....there is no core2duo at 3.06ghz and i prayed! that it was a phenom x6 1055t as they sell that for £75 on its own, the whole pc cost me £145 (was £280 there a year ago...) i only wanted the cpu.

sure enough it turns out it is a phenom 1055t!!  with the stock-high-end copper based heatpipe cooler

so i got an "icute" zl02-3g-bb case made out of metal so thin you can read through it

a "sweex" 350w power supply with a single 6 pin and 2 sata with a 11amp and 12amp rail respectively.

a 1tb seagate hard drive (not too shabby)

2x2gb of "zeppelin" ddr3 1333 thats yellow! 

and the motherboard is a POS asrock m3a ucc which doesnt even have vga out (and this had a phenom x6 in it?)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=zeppelin+2gb+ddr3&es_sm=122&biw=960&bih=454&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=o2oVVZr2F8-XasiZgKAC&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=asrock+m3a+ucc&imgdii=_

excluding the cpu these other parts cost me £70...

then bought a zotac gtx460 1gb for £38....which turned out to be an SE :angry: 

so not bad for under £200, im switching the cpu for an athlonII x2 250 and the hard drive for a 640GB i have and selling it as a basic pc and will likely make a small profit (and someones going to get a steal!)

the phenom x6, gtx460SE will likely be put into a new pc made from the money from the sale of that^ with 8gb of ram, a 500w corsair psu, 1tb seagate and msi krait board   

not a "experience with non-techies" sorry, but proof that hp's have thier uses  :lol: maybe a LTT scrapyard wars UK contender.

edit-swapped the gtx460se for the guys qx9650 +£10, bought a r9-270 DCU2 today.

Honestly dude, Sometimes HP brings good luck and sometimes bad.  But its like anything bad, the general rule is not to even try because the risk is to high of getting a faulty component or computer, or just getting a crappy experience.  But, me saying HP sucks isn't saying "THEY ARE SO BAD, STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS" Its me saying, "HP doesn't make great computers, esspecially low end and because more often than not they do very much suck or break early its a good option to stay away if you can" 

 

I have an HP Stream for damn sake.  And I got because the specs were decent for the money, but I was severely risking a bad dud. 

 

How's the stream doing? I'm thinking of getting one by Christmas (if all goes well and the money to do so is raised)...

Its going pretty well.  

Not good if you want to do anything with visual studio, because its so damn big.  The HP stream's SSD is pretty small.  BUT it does really well, I've used it for school and everything and its performed very well, boots up fast and wakes up fast which is good when your in history class and your teacher throws a whole bunch of info down your throat without you even having a chance to get out your laptop.  

 

It would also be good for some administration too.  I would imagine you could upgrade the Windows to pro and get some PowerShell and other administrative tools going and it would work fine.  

It has an SD card slot, you can use an SD card to put games on or applications but they will load slow.  So I advise only pictures, photos and music etc.  

[Julian5]

The latest for me, is my mother calling me to ask why her computer mouse doesn't work (while shouting that it's a piece of crap and what not), when I get there, I find she managed to plug the USB mouse in the Ethernet port of her laptop.. Couldn't help facepalming in front of her.

the other day I was at a hotel with my mother and she forgot her usb power adpter so she just plugged the usb in an ethernet port. Facepalm :rolleyes:

[Julian5]

I have a friend which is addicted to minecraft and any time she disconnects or her wifi signal goes low she says she got hacked and goes histerical.

[DimasRMDO]

I have a friend which is addicted to minecraft and any time she disconnects or her wifi signal goes low she says she got hacked and goes histerical.

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

My school only has 30Mb/s

Mine goes from dial up (800kb) to 3mb/s

[Guest]

Mine goes from dial up (800kb) to 3mb/s

Dial up was 56kb...

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

Dial up was 56kb...

I meant where it would be as slow as dial up or seem like that, as you have everyone who sneaks there phones into class which is like 100 people. They need to just make a MUCH stronger router.

[waggythegeek]

Ping time to titanfall server: 260 seconds. I complained. Dad: "it's fine, no way I'm paying like $300 to switch internet services"

[Boink]

Ping time to titanfall server: 260 seconds. I complained. Dad: "it's fine, no way I'm paying like $300 to switch internet services"

260 SECONDS? Usually ping times out after 1 second. Are you sure you didn't mean milliseconds? Either way that sucks, but still.

[STRMfrmXMN]

Ping time to titanfall server: 260 seconds. I complained. Dad: "it's fine, no way I'm paying like $300 to switch internet services"

Holy crap man, makes me glad we have fast internet  :wacko:

[Nowak]

Never go Full Retard. I repeat NEVER GO FULL RETARD

What in the actual fuck is that woman doing with that power supply.

[DimasRMDO]

What in the actual fuck is that woman doing with that power supply.

YOLO right?