Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

To respond to this, there are quite a few people who have left RT due to these conversations and we DO get quite a few reports.

EDIT: On the flipside, there are also a few who post here simply because of those conversations, likewise with Chat.

It's basically Seha pissed off about KN always throwing sexy time comments at her lol...

My folks are still using a POS G router from belkin that's like 900 years old. Hopefully I can remedy this soon. Any suggestions to a decent N or AC router?

***, ***, and more bitching.

Seems that's randomly on everyone's minds lately.

Well, I'm going to rant about how awkward it is to type on this dinky *** keyboard that I have on this laptop. Firstly, the backspace button is too far in the upper-right hand corner smack dab next to the flipping wifi button so whenever I play an online game and for the love of helix, I make a mistake and I quickly take my pinky and hit the backspace but also hit the wifi, BOOM! wifi is cut and game lags out of it's connection. After the FUUUUU moment, I proceed to beat up my cat and then stub my toe on my fireproof portable safe that is sitting in the middle of my room because I don't give a ***to clean and then my gf tends to my foot and then randomly starts tickled my foot and go off and stub the same *** toe on my safe again, crawling back into bed after punishing my safe while I fill my bathtub up with water and drown that *** under some water because it's fireproof is a testament of my torturous way. After rolling over, I realize I rolled in cat puke and poop.

I don't even really know who is top of the food chain when it comes to networking anymore. I just picked up a well reviewed Netgear router for myself and called it a day. Been working out fairly well even if my 5Ghz band has meh range.

Takes me forever to type with a touchscreen phone, I enjoyed typing with my normal number pad before that :| Was a lot faster

Asus makes nice routers.
I dont like Belkin.
D-link, Asus and Netgear have worked fine for me.
usually replace a router every 2~4 yrs

ASUS RT-N66R best router i've ever had. automatic DNS flushing and error correction, I haven't had to reset it a single time in a year and a half.

Is your wifi button on a function key? If so, you can usually switch the order of either the F1-12 working or the alternatives working with the press of the key, mine came with the features working without Fn being pressed, I changed it in the bios as I found that annoying.

It is it's own button.

There is a remedy to that last part.

As for routers:

eww dlink, and eww belkin.

There's some good and bad routers of each brand, but between the old WRT54GS that's upstairs that's been running for about a decade (needs replaced I'm pretty sure a few caps are bulging in it and I don't feel like replacing them), it needs reset every now and again, and once in awhile it does a factory reset on it's own, which fortunately I have the settings file backed up, also have Tomato running on it.

I personally cascade routers, and mine is a E3000 with Tomato, I *** love that thing, aside from the power flickers or moving it, I never have to touch it.

Another note: depending on the house you live in and the distance you cover, there's advantages to 2.4 over 5.0 ghz signals.

IIRC AC is 5ghz only, while N can be either, so a dualband N could effectively give you the best signal (range, handles low interference and can handle thicker walls).

Basically 2.4 can be more prone to interference, and a lot of things run on that range, but it has a longer distance, and can go through solid objects easier.

Which sounds like more of the issue than the straight throughput, or just a bad AP/router, and or how many devices are on it. Could run a few network tests to see what the issue is, or if it's something else.

I usually test by streaming from a wired device on the same network, with no real tools but it narrows down what the issues could be.

While normally I prefer such things, but I can see how that's annoying.

Most of the one's I've seen where it's stand-alone is a switch on the side, which isn't too bad.

Mine is on a bar above the keyboard along with an energy saver toggle, music buttons, mute/volume + & -, and some other button that I THINK swaps display to the display output port.

(I also have Harmon/Kardon audio...which is odd since I usually use headphones.)

Yeah all that crap is in my F1-10 keys, and I have an "Fn" button.

I rarely use them...

my wifi is like ctrl+fn+f3 so realy hard to turn off on accident

A few pages too late, but wtf...

"Horizon in the middle of potato"
"Potato no Stigma"
Potato no Shana

I miss Headstrong. :<

See her online sometimes but never says anything

"I eat faster than you do!"

The arguments Aelius and I have.

I have come to the conclusion nobody will argue with me lol cannot pick a fight to save my life today