Dude! I like pawnshops. Of course, I don't mind dumpster-diving or picking stuff up off the side of the road, either. It creeps Greg right out. ...must look up pawnshops in the area.
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Deena - May 06, 2009 6:11:04 am PDT #9880 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Theodosia - May 06, 2009 6:30:42 am PDT #9881 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My mom used to get all her TVs through garage sales. She seems to want to have one in every room... still does, but she's down to a three-room setup now.
(That would be 3 in the three bedrooms, one in the LR, one in the kitchen and one on the 3-season porch, back when she still had the house.)
Connie Neil - May 06, 2009 6:48:28 am PDT #9882 of 25501
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I've gone dumpster diving myself, but for a TV I want something with a little more support.
Jessica - May 06, 2009 6:50:44 am PDT #9883 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm finally going to replace my ancient 802.11b router with something faster. (It won't solve my current connectivity issues, but what the hell.)
Since I'm only getting 15mbps (tops) from my cable company, does it make any sense at all to pay for 802.11n speeds, or should I save the $20 and stick with -g?
Tom Scola - May 06, 2009 6:56:23 am PDT #9884 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You know that Cablevision will be offering 100Mbps soon?
In any event, 802.11n might still make sense, because the 5GHz band is a lot less crowded than 2GHz. The split-band option available in new Apple routers (and some other manufacturers) is especially nice.
Gudanov - May 06, 2009 6:58:14 am PDT #9885 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I think n has better range as well. If that isn't an issue and you don't have local devices talking to each other then I figure g would be fine.
I did the same thing awhile ago and went with g, most of my local network is wired so I didn't need especially fast wireless just for the laptop.
I tend to opt for the cheaper solution most of the time.
Jessica - May 06, 2009 7:03:54 am PDT #9886 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You know that Cablevision will be offering 100Mbps soon?
Yeah, for over twice what I'm paying now. Not interested.
Liese S. - May 06, 2009 7:04:43 am PDT #9887 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We went ahead and went n, but I didn't have any truly compelling reason to do so other than just trying to futureproof. We do a good bit of non internet movement over the network; transferring business files and doing backups and whatnot, so I've appreciated the extra speed. On the whole I don't think it mattered much to us one way or the other.
Gudanov - May 06, 2009 7:10:29 am PDT #9888 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
If you think you will be doing video streaming from a DVR or something to a laptop I'd probably go for n instead. SD works over our network on g, but I'd be less certain about HD.
My home network is scary, I have an 8 port hub and a 4 port hub completely filled.
Calli - May 06, 2009 7:19:16 am PDT #9889 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
SD works over our network on g, but I'd be less certain about HD.
I'm on g, and when I try to stream hd stuff on Hulu it tends to give up after 5 minutes or so. Until two months ago I couldn't really stream video at all (I've since replaced my 8 year old computer), so this isn't too dire a handicap. But when I replace my current router I'll probably go with n or, given my glacial rate of hardware upgrades, whatever is like n is now.