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Yes, those things are annoying.

They seem to give me two choices:
(1) click "agree" which agrees with their policy;
(2) don't click "agree" which also agrees with their policy.

The only purpose seems to be to annoy people.

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jarablue wrote:I am 42 this year.

Only 42 years of age, and complains about getting old. LOL

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But, what struck me the most while at the mall was how many people are walking around staring at their phones. I mean, it was incredible.
Yes, I often notice that.

For me, my cell phone is usually in my pocket. I'll only take it out if I hear it ring.

At one poing we walked by a young girl ...

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I don't understand what's wrong

I haven't bothered with a signature, because I rarely post here.

Here's how the scheme works:

Someone (probably a bot) joins up as a new member. And then posts a bland message that does not look like spam and does not raise any concerns. Then, a month later that ...

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It is part of the dumbing down of America (or, perhaps, of the world).

nwrickert

Strange coincidences do occur.

What happened may be one of those strange coincidences. Or maybe your suspicions are right, and it was something that the ISP did.

The problem for you, is that you may never be able to prove that it was the ISP, and not just a strange coincidence. So you probably ...

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Philip wrote:The correct location for the forums hasn't been "forums.speedguide.net" for a couple of years now... It is at https://www.speedguide.net/forums/ (we have no SSL certificate for the forums.speedguide.net subtomain, only for www, hence the error).

Thanks. I've update my bookmark.

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Please update your links to https:// , ...

I tried that. And Firefox refused to connected. So I had to change the link back to "http:".

Your connection is not secure

The owner of forums.speedguide.net has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen ...

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Interesting. Thanks.

I'm not going to panic mode over this.

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Still here -- checking daily but rarely posting.

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I'm not a windows expert. But I have the impression that there isn't an easy way to install Windows on a USB.

As for USB booting and partitioning: You could try the opensuse 13.2 live KDE cd (available HERE). That should UEFI boot, and "gparted" should be on the booted system.

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I'm seeing fast updates on Windows 8.1, very slow updates on Windows 7, and extremely slow updates on Vista.

I'm guessing here. It looks to me as if Microsoft is doing some kind of queuing. You are put into a queue before you can begin downloading. Once you reach the front of the queue, the ...

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I recently bought a Philips Norelco shaver 4100 Model AT810 (from Amazon). It works pretty well.

Previously, I used a Remington Remington R5130, which was okay but never shaved as closely as the Norelco. I have just ordered a replacement head for the Remington, because it is good to have a backup ...

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Philip wrote:The IPs are in totally different subnets (one in Colombia, another in China, etc.), and all of them made exactly 6 requests within a minute or so.

This is common hacker behavior. They control a bunch of computers that they have taken over, and they use those to hide their true origin.

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I chose not to reply earlier, because it is hard to tell what is going on.

Typically, a DHCP client requests to renew a lease with a specific IP address. The DHCP server sends DHCPNAK to say that you cannot have that IP address.

I have mostly seen this on a campus network, when people bring in ...

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It appears that in Windows 8, if you set Windows Updates to OFF, that Windows Defender DOES NOT do any updates either. Can someone confirm this one way or another?

Yes, this is correct. I notice people saying that Windows 8 is more secure. And then I see this behavior. I see Win 8 as a step ...

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Maybe someone pushed the reset button on the box, and that would turn it back into a router (the factory defaults).

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Is there any possibility that there is a second router on the network, giving out conflicting DHCP information?

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It's hard to say what's wrong, with so little information.

Was the router changed, or reconfigured?

Normally, the computers would get their information on the gateway IP using DHCP. If the router was reconfigured to use a different network, or the router was replaced, then you might have the ...

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Lurch wrote:Got a link to a good download of UBCD?

I normally go to "http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/" and click on the download link.

Yes, I guess there is some advertising on that site. I run "noscript" and perhaps that's why the advertising doesn't get in the way.

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Can you explain what that is?

Do a google search for "ultimate boot CD". That will take you to a site where you can download the iso file. Burn that to a CD.

When you boot it, there are many options. Among those options are some memory tests, which are always useful if having memory woes.

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I suggest booting to a recent "Ultimate Boot CD" and running memory tests.

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No, IPv6 won't speed anything up. Whether or not it will even work depends on what your ISP supports.

IPv6 will allow you to connect to sites that are on IPv6. At present there are very few such sites.

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Here's a Wikipedia article on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_bridge

What you want to do is possible. However, most typical SOHO routers cannot handle it. You might be lucky and have a router that can handle it. Or you might need to purchase suitable equipment.

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I still don't know enough about how you are connecting to the Internet.

Switching to access point mode won't affect security.

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I'll take that as answering 2nd, 3rd and 4th questions and affirming that there is nothing unusual there. It would still help to know how you are connected to the Internet (cable, dsl, FIOS, etc).

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No, that is not normal.

How are you connected to the Internet? Maybe there is something running on the desktop that is needed for your Internet link.

Is DHCP service provided by your router, or by your desktop?

Have you set it up for using a radius authentication server, and is that radius server ...

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The first line is on your home network. The time is short. No problem.

Lines 3 is to the first router that you see within the shawcable network. Again the time (12ms) is short enough to suggest that there is a problem with yur connection to shawcable.

The next 3 lines are all within the shawcable ...

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Were you required to register a MAC address to allow access?

Maybe the main router is doing MAC filtering, and won't give an IP to your personal router. Have you tried cloning your PC mac address on the personal router? Cloning is meant do deal with that particular problem (where a registered MAC ...

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Please Please Please help

Too little information.

Too much of the wrong information.

Login to your router. There should be somewhere that it tells you its WAN IP address.

Tell us that WAN IP address (and subnet mask if you can get that).
Tell us also the IP that your router assigns to your ...

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USPS tracking is far worse than FedEx.

FedEx that is sent via USPS on the last hop is probably as bad as USPS.

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My ethernet hub is sitting on a shelf, unused for ever so long. One of these days, I will toss it.

At work, I did use one a few years ago. I temporarily replaced a switch with a hub. This was for debugging. With a hub, your computer gets to see all packets. So, with the hub in place, I put one ...

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AnnaJar wrote:I really think there should be step by step directions on how to do all of this somewhere on the internet but I have yet to find anything that is written clearly.

Try this one: Using a Wireless Router as an Access Point

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You can use a wireless router as an access point.

To do that, you assign the w-router a LAN IP address that would be appropriate for your wired net. Best is usually to choose something just out of the range of IP addresses that your current router gives out with DHCP. For example, I have a router ...

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If it is XP-Home, then you have to boot to safe mode in order to have access to the Administrator account.

If that doesn't work, you might need to use the Ultimate Boot CD (google it) or similar to reset the user passwords.

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blebs wrote:What screen resolution are you running at?

1440 x 900 here. I normally have the browser using around 2/3 of the monitor width.

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Unless it is badly broken, the NIC would account for less than 1 ms of ping time.

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My own router is not a linksys. I don't know about using video formats for firmware - that sounds strange. Perhaps it is just using the same filetype as a video format, but it really isn't. In any case, you would normally only need to have the firmware file on your computer, then get into the router ...

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I see an empty black box.

Okay, if I maximize the browser, I see the moon.

I am wondering why there isn't a horizontal scroll bar. Is that a forum bug?

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Even a basic desk computer should be able to type in data without it being all upper case. You make it hard to read your post.

Your router probably has 5 ethernet ports (connectors). One of those is probably labelled WAN or Internet. You connect that to your cable modem or dsl modem (or whatever ...

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