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my wired LAN connection is slower than wireless. please help

nelz — Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:55 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:55 pm

You don't say what kind of Internet connection you have, but assuming it is a domestic setup, your connection from the router to the computer should have no real impact on download speeds.

Either the router is broken, unlikely, your network card is misconfigured, not very likely, or your ethernet cable is faulty/damaged. That's the most likely cause and the reason I suggested trying a different cable.

If it does the same with another cable, post the results of these terminal commands

Code:

sudo ethtool eth0
sudo mii-tool eth0
sudo lspci | grep -i ethernet

New hard drives during and post 2011...

nelz — Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:46 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:46 pm

Bazza wrote:

You`ve made my point for me as there IS performance
degradation, BUT, does this start from INT 19 therefore
making BIOS a bottleneck?

I didn't say there IS performance degradation, I said there can be performance degradation if you don't align partitions with the blocks. This is at a higher level than the BIOS and the performance comes back if you start your partitions 512B later on the disk.

Maximum PC Archives

LeeNukes — Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:18 pm

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:18 pm

Wow, is all I can say.

I was looking up the article written by Gina Trappani on Google Apps (as its something I'm becoming more and more familiar with in our attempts to migrate to Google Apps at work) and I was pointed to the fact that once the latest issue is out, the old ones are archived as free PDF's

WOW

http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/pdf_archives

Enjoy.

Issue 129 : Quirky British Japes

fritzm — Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:01 pm

Author: fritzm

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:01 pm

ollie wrote:

fritzm wrote:

<troll>You mean like Australians aren't known for their rugby ?</troll>

But SA teams didn't do too well this weekend in the Super 14

33-0 should be enough to tell you who I support and why I'm quite happy, thank you very much.

Fritz

Printer problem with Ubuntu

Drewg — Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:58 pm

Author: Drewg

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:58 pm

LeeNukes wrote:

Have you checked the printer settings? As in in Ubuntu as opposed to on the printer itself.

Yes, thought of that one, have even reloaded Cups and it still does it

Drew

Audio uncovered - great article

fritzm — Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:46 pm

Author: fritzm

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:46 pm

Just wanted to compliment Graham Morrison on doing a fantastic write-up of Linux audio in his article in Issue 130. This is the kind of article that I find worthwhile because it brings understanding, rather than the "type in this incantation and say the magic words, don't worry about why" ones. Chris Brown's articles are also good in this respect.

What puzzles me is that after all the dire warnings about audio is a mess, and melting pot of instability, he proceeds to show that it all makes perfect sense - far from being a mess! My own experience with audio is that most of the "mess" is created by advice from people who don't understand how things are meant to work, so they try to fight it and reduce the distro's finely tuned packages to rubble; then they complain that audio doesn't work. Case in point is the people whose first advice is to (completely unnecessarily) uninstall Pulseaudio, followed by many suggestions as to how to fix what they have now broken.

OK, after the compliments, can I say that the article whetted my appetite for more details and how-to's. I'd like to suggest that he follow this with a series of articles on the individual pieces. For me the most interesting would be Jack, Pulseaudio and Alsa covering their UI in more detail, as well as advice for setting them up and fixing common problems. For instance, what do all those cryptic names in the ALSA mixer mean ?

Another thing I'd love to see covered is tuning a machine for minimum latency and curing xruns. These are topics on which there is a huge amount of the "magic command" type of advice, much of which is not actually correct (e.g. NICE settings are commonly recommended, but have nothing to do with audio performance). If Graham can cut through the sound architecture jungle like this and distill it down to crystal clarity, then get him to take his machete and cut through the audio setup jungle in similar style.

Just on a personal note, I have my Asus Aspire netbook set up as a portable recording studio and sound workshop, and it is jaw-droppingly awesome (with the aid of a decent quality USB interface and Ubuntu Netbook Remix + audio apps). The most amazing advert for Linux - I love watching the faces when someone is looking for a guitar tuner and I start up fmit and point it at them.

Fritz

ATI versus Nvidia for Linux?

LeeNukes — Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:36 pm

Author: LeeNukes

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:36 pm

Had lots of issues in the past with ATI drivers, just not nice to install compared to NVidia ones if you don't use the repositories like I don't.

I'd say NVidia too. Had two ATI cards and one NVidia, no real issues with the NVidia other then it gets a little hot due to only passive cooling. Could do with more fans in my tower.

Cisco Internet Router...

Bazza — Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:36 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:36 pm

Hi all...

Jeez, this puts a new dimension on internet throughput...

http://cbs5.com/technology/cisco.internet.router.2.1547812.html

If any of you watched the Olympic closing ceremonies.

1slipperyfish — Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:12 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:12 pm

Bazza wrote:

Hi nelz...

> Be fair, he's halfway there

So are flying fish, but that doesn`t make them birds...

And 1sf...

> yo bizza i will try to fight the good fight

How; by slapping us with your caudal? :O

you wish <ooohh misus smilie>
i'll give you a boxed ear using my super-powerful pectoral fins
paul

Spoiled for choice

bobthebob1234 — Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:01 pm

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:01 pm

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?

Not sure what they come with default but you will be able to remove OpenOffice if you want and install whatever you want, such as abiword, etc.

You won't want mythbuntu but any others are game. Other distros you might want to consider are ubuntu (lbuntu is based on ubuntu), mint, etc (mikeos?)

Just try some in live mode and see what takes your fancy!

Dansguardian with certain websites

ollie — Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:44 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:44 am

The problem with Dan's Guardian is that the black lists are commercially licensed - http://dansguardian.org/?page=blacklist.

I raised this issue when the article was published, a better, totally open source option is SquidGuard with the lists from Shalla Secure Services (who maintain SquidGuard now). There is currently 1690287 entries in the blacklists and these have all been manually submitted and then checked by a person so it is very accurate.

Spam reporting thread

M-Saunders — Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:57 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:57 am

He's no more! Ta folks.

M

Drupal 6 Installation - SQL related error message

johnhudson — Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:56 am

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:56 am

In ('SELECT * FROM {menu_router} WHERE path IN ('. implode (',', $placeholders) .') ORDER BY fit DESC'), I don't understand the expression following IN and I wonder if mysql is parsing '. implode (' and ', $placeholders) .' as two text values separated by a comma. So I wonder if clarifying this expression using double quotes is practicable.

Wireless card under Moblin

nelz — Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:20 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:20 pm

What's that?