General computer talk/advice

Disk Cleanup. It's under Administrative Tools.
Or, you could open it by pressing WinKey+R, then typing in cleanmgr

 

This may fall to stupid question but here goes.
I have this motherboard: gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 and my network cable is plugged in to it's lan port(Realtek® GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) and my current speed is DOWN:98.31 Mb/s UP:9.95 Mb/s.

By next month we get new internet and the speed goes up to 350, can my current lan port handle it or do i need to buy pcie lan port?

 

You have a Gbit port as you just said, you'll be fine.

 

your motherboard lan port is fine.
The bigger issue is whether your cabling and other networking devices are also rated for it. Many ethernet cables are only rated for 100mb, you have 350 coming in. Most desk switches are 100mb. Most ISP supplied routers only have 100mb ethernet ports on the back rather than gigabit. So yes your motherboard can do it, your line can do it, your router can probably do it on the input, but everything in between is likely capped at 100mb.


Can either leave it and accept that your PC is limited to 100mb (in fairness this then leaves 250mb for other people in the house and wifi etc), or you can buy a new modem/router combo that is definitely gigabit ethernet on the back and get some cat5e or cat6 ethernet cable definitely rated to take gigabit. Cat 4 cable and below (to be fair 5 and 6 are the most common to buy today) is not gigabit rated.

 

does anyone know the
Best free virtual assistant for windows 7

 

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Oh thanks, yeah i believe my modem should be fine, atleast the ISP guy said that it would be and i think my cable is cat5. Ooh yeah cant wait.

 

my RM650i psu came today, and its excellent, extra power for my components, my corsair link thing says that i was drawing around 410w so the 380w psu wasnt adequate, because it hardly reaches over 50% load it stays passive, this means that its silent, apart from my gpu fan and the 3 7200rpm hard drives (that dont spin down on idle, you have to do it manually, if you leave them spun down then windows runs out of ram cache for the drives (im using HDDscan to spin my drives down))

 

maybe i've just been lucky, but every isp provided modem/router combo our family has gotten was fully gigabit (and heck, even the yellow ethernet cable we have from when we first went from dial-up to DSL is gigabit, and that was back in like, 2006 if i remember correctly) in fact, only non gigabit devices/cables i know of is my siblings POS HP craptop, and the linksys wrt45g and the ethernet cable it came with (and i guess technically the Wii as well since it doesn't have an ethernet port at all).

 

Never had an ISP provided one capable of gigabit except on one marked port on bt's

 

Every router I've gotten from an ISP has been fully gigabit capable. I think my current one has 6 gigabit ports.

Last time I got a modem only was mid 2000's and I don't remember if that was gigabit

 

We have Cisco epc3825, it has 4 x 10/100/1000M Ethernet.

 

Google Bonzie Buddy.

 

Please tell us of your experience with BonziBuddy.

 

It tells facts? My god, I need it! Nobody will ever need Vsauce and Thoughty2 anymore, yaas! (okay, I'm okay)

 

pissed off now
I have a cheap ass single antenna wireless router that until I made a few changes to the network had 16+ clients connected to it via wifi (and ethernet is not a possibility in this building). Its so cheap and crap that during a LAN only game with a housemate, we had pings that at best were at a *just* playable 200-300 but regularly shot into the 4 digits, at one point hitting 2500.
Our solution. Bust out a second wireless router we have and set it up upstairs with no internet connection only LAN for us 2 guys (me via ethernet, him via wifi). Seemed great, it was not, sure pings were on the floor at sub 1ms even with him using wifi, but our game must have had some sort of DRM and would not allow LAN play without being logged into steam & online which sucks. Solution again, get his old homeplug adapters to throw a LAN link between the upstairs and downstairs routers with DHCP disabled on the upstairs one so not to cause IP conflict, we now have internet access on the upstairs router so can connect to steam and the shortest path between us is still via that upstairs router so our pings were again through the floor. Downside, I can only pull 0.3mb downloads over this houses wiring on homeplug and the ping to the downstairs router via homeplug also tends to climb a little.

What I was now hoping to do as we LAN game a fair bit now was see if I could get windows to prioritise external network traffic via wifi and local via ethernet. By default in windows you can only choose whether you are using ethernet or wifi as the primary connection though. Set wifi first, it will still try to use that for the LAN game with housemate. Set ethernet first it will be throttling internet speeds over the homeplug adapters.

Was going to try overruling the windows IP routing table to force the gateway (downstairs router) to always be wifi and all other addresses to be ethernet, sadly the 192.168.0.0 entry for the general network address overrules 192.168.0.1 for the gateway address and so it always uses that one instead :/ FFS, cant win.

If I could, I'd just run an ethernet cable from downstairs to upstairs and have the upstairs router slave off of that.

Maybe I'll try chucking both routers downstairs instead, see if housemate and I can both get a good enough signal to it (its older g spec wifi, its ancient) for LAN gaming without major bandwidth throttling over homeplugs...
--- Post updated ---
Ok remove the homeplug from the power extension cord that was required and we suddenly get 4mb downloads over it. Stupid house, wish I could just punch an ethernet cable through the wall and be done with it.

 

So Apple is having an event today and are allegedly announcing a smaller alternative to the iPad Pro...

..they already make that, it's called the "iPad".

 

... And a smaller iPhone, an alternative to the 6s/6sP

... they already make that, it's called the "iPhone 5s"

 

I thought it was a smaller iPhone with a new chip and the features.

 

There's one of those too.