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James Young commented on Calgary Guru's blog post 'Speed up your internet connection? Read on...'"This applies if you have on computer behind your router. Most people don't use the full bandwidth allocated to them anyway."
Calgary Guru posted a blog postSpeed up your internet connection? Read on...
After some trouble with my old "g" class wireless router, I went back to just directly connecting my cable modem from my ISP to my computer with an ethernet cable.My connection problems went away, but out of curiosity, I chose to check my download speeds when there was no extra device between the computer and the cable modem. I used http://www.speedtest.net/ and checked about a dozen cities.Imagine my amazement to see that my peak download speeds had…See More
Calgary Guru replied to Calgary Guru's discussion 'Where to buy your geek gear' in the group Calgary Geeks"Wow, now in six locations including Winnipeg, Manitoba!
I still wish I had the prices seen at http://www.canadacomputers.com/ where I lived at one time."
Dawn-Ann Kirkpatrick replied to Calgary Guru's discussion 'Where to buy your geek gear' in the group Calgary Geeks"Memory Express is the only place I go to these days, and the only place I ever recommend to anyone."
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- Why do you consider yourself a geek?
- Elec. Engineer, Apple-trained tech., all-round tech. guru
- How did you find out about our Geek community?
- From Chris Pirillo somehow... I forget now! Probably a twitter tweet he made.
- What are your "geeky equipment" specs?
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Apple Mac Pro 2.8 GHz - 8 core - 10 GB RAM
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Power Computing PowerCenter 150
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- Do you mean "What DID I want to be?" I'm already grown up!
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- Time spent with family
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- Designed and built a computer-controlled test machine for a factory.
- What do you do to entertain yourself?
- Should I write what I think SOUNDS good or the truth?
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- Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Queen, but also Jazz... the usual geek sci-fi movies and television series... Books?
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Speed up your internet connection? Read on...
Posted on February 1, 2010 at 8:00pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
After some trouble with my old "g" class wireless router, I went back to just directly connecting my cable modem from my ISP to my computer with an ethernet cable.
My connection problems went away, but out of curiosity, I chose to check my download speeds when there was no extra device between the computer and the cable modem. I used http://www.speedtest.net/ and checked about a dozen cities.
Imagine my amazement to see that my peak… Continue
My connection problems went away, but out of curiosity, I chose to check my download speeds when there was no extra device between the computer and the cable modem. I used http://www.speedtest.net/ and checked about a dozen cities.
Imagine my amazement to see that my peak… Continue
What da heck?
Posted on September 3, 2008 at 7:19pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
So, what's this all about, eh?
Saw it in passing, and thought I better register... not like I'm going to make any use of it though!
I've been almost off the grid for three months ( 26.4 kbps dialup )... almost like not being on the internet.
I'll have to discover what this is all about in time!
Saw it in passing, and thought I better register... not like I'm going to make any use of it though!
I've been almost off the grid for three months ( 26.4 kbps dialup )... almost like not being on the internet.
I'll have to discover what this is all about in time!
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 1:09am on December 15, 2008, Calgary Guru said…
- Wow... Google search for calgary guru (no quotes) gets me for top seven of eight results. Now that's good ranking!
I must be doing something right!
- At 7:35pm on November 29, 2008,
TECHTECH2 said… - Cool. very cool nice to see someone hear born from the Hat!!
Merry Christmas!
- At 9:51pm on November 23, 2008, TECHTECH2 said…
- Hey i live just down the road in Medicne Hat. Cool!!
- At 2:00am on September 7, 2008,
Chris Pirillo said… - I don't think Leo even knows it exists yet. :)
- At 10:30pm on September 4, 2008,
waltip.com said… - calgary when you have the time take a look at http://waltip.blogspot.com Its my start up blog leave me a comment when you have the time . Thanks
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