Powerline Network Adapters

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Anybody using one? Thoughts?

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Come on guys. I am asking about something important and you are posting about NZ??

Priorities gentlemen, priorities.

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Computer in a far corner

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I have no neighbors.

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[Rob Lister]

Used to use one about 7 years ago. If you have a really big house (or separate buildings on the same breaker box) they are better than wifi. Think of them as a poor mans ethernet. Not a lot of throughput though. I'd say 20mb/s over a long electrical haul.

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Basically the machine isa lead weight. Just got a netgear thing and installed it. Not blazing but one can do what one needs too and cheaper than dropping an ethernet cable.

I am satisifed.

[Witness]

Not blazing

I put my router on top of a wardrobe and it improved the speed quite a lot.

[Rob Lister]

And no Wi Fi of course, because why give your thievish neighbors access to free pr0n?

[captain obvious] Actually, your neighbors on the same electrical line transformer will be able connect just fine, so long as they know the password. [/ca]

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Actually, it sucks. Damn phone won't connect to the wi-fi and the computer doesn't recognize the Ethernet. Bastards.
God damnit to hell, I hate computers

Rob, would you get here forthwith and fix this mess for me?

CH would have been here already.

[Rob Lister]

Actually, it sucks. Damn phone won't connect to the wi-fi

lots of things cause that, but ...

and the computer doesn't recognize the Ethernet.

Not too much can cause that.

Rob, would you get here forthwith and fix this mess for me?

unlock the shed door, asshole.

[Witness]

That the marvelous computer you bought some time ago?

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No. It was one that we boght my bro as a present ages ago and when he died, since he didn't have a stereo ... well .. we took it. Win7 and old but ok for orders for the business ... sorta. I think the problem is cpu.

[Rob Lister]

Well, yea. A dead CPU will certainly stop it from connecting to the internet.

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no, goes to 100% regularly

[gnome]

Can you tell what task drives it up that high?

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When we go to the orders tab on our store. Weird

[gnome]

check which executables are driving the usage--if it is the browser itself it may be an add-on issue. Also being an older machine, do you have java and shockwave disabled? As in, you ought to.