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How to: Does Ethernet over Power Lines work well for home networking? #it #dev #computers

How to: Does Ethernet over Power Lines work well for home networking? #it #dev #computers

Does Ethernet over Power Lines work well for home networking?

I am considering putting a computer in my garage (geek alert) and my wireless signal is simply to weak to get through all of the concrete, steel, etc.

I’ve seen products at Fry’s for Ethernet over power lines, but have not tried it. Is this a good solution for home use?

http://www.netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/PowerlineEthe…

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Answer: How do I set up a proxy server for home with bandwidth control, download limit options? #dev #solution #computers

Answer: How do I set up a proxy server for home with bandwidth control, download limit options? #dev #solution #computers

How do I set up a proxy server for home with bandwidth control, download limit options?

3 room mates share a single 2 Mbps connection. Have a 40GB per month download limit beyond which speed drops to 256Kbps which is annoying.

One of the roommates abuses the connection by downloading beyond his quota limit. I have a Netgear WNR1000v2 Wireless router + ADSL Modem to connect to the internet. We…

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Answer: Picasa 3.5: how to share the tagged faces from one PC to another #solution #it #answer

Answer: Picasa 3.5: how to share the tagged faces from one PC to another #solution #it #answer

Picasa 3.5: how to share the tagged faces from one PC to another

At home, we share our photos from a server. I’ve been tagging the faces in Picasa 3.5 in one PC, but in the other PC the same photos needs to be retagged.

Where is this info stored so it can be shared between computers?

Answer [by John T]: Picasa 3.5: how to share the tagged faces from one PC to another

Picasa stores face tag…

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Answer: 500 Mbit/s powerline network, only 3.5 Mbyte/s transfer speed? #fix #dev #it

Answer: 500 Mbit/s powerline network, only 3.5 Mbyte/s transfer speed? #fix #dev #it

500 Mbit/s powerline network, only 3.5 Mbyte/s transfer speed?

I have a TP-Link 500 Mbit/s Gigabit Powerline Adapter linking two computers (one Windows Vista and one Windows 7) in different rooms in the house. As in:

Computer <-Ethernet cord-> Adapter <-Electrical wiring-> Adapter <-Ethernet cord-> Computer

I’m trying to transfer 100 GB of data through this network (there are reasons why I…

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Solution: Unable to ping local machines by name in Windows 7 #development #programming #it

Solution: Unable to ping local machines by name in Windows 7 #development #programming #it

Unable to ping local machines by name in Windows 7

I’m having a strange (and persistent!) problem with pinging local machines on my network by name. I believe my machine (Windows 7 64-bit) is the only one having this issue. This is over a wireless connection.

As an example, consider a device on my network by the name of WDTVLiveHub. It’s a Western Digital Live Hub (surprise!). If I go to my…

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Resolved: Windows 7 Homegroups not working? #programming #computers #dev

Resolved: Windows 7 Homegroups not working? #programming #computers #dev

Windows 7 Homegroups not working?

I’ve got a homegroup set up, and only the accounts/machines where the user and password is identical can see/share files. I thought the setting to let homegroup control the accounts would make that requirement unnecessary….am I missing something?

To be clear: I can see the other machines/user accounts in my homegroup listing, but I can’t see any of the files in…

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Solution: How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points? #fix #development #it

Solution: How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points? #fix #development #it

How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points?

I need to upgrade my existing wireless infrastructure and this time I want 2 access points to cover my house, since I get blind spots no matter what with a single AP. I have physical cabling to my central network available for both access points.

I would really like these two to interoperate seamlessly as a single SSID. How do I do this?…

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