All Posts Tagged With: "netgear"

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I Built A New Home Theatre PC This Weekend

One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet over the weekend is I’ve been building a Home Theatre PC, which when finished will totally solve my HD video issues.
It’s just about finished (read about my problems below) and it looks very cool in the Antec Fusion case pictured, although I’ve decided I need to buy [...]

15Apr2007 | Everton | 14 comments | Continued
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What Are My Options For A HD Media Center?

My regular readers know that I love my modded Xboxs running XBMC. However, the problem I’m facing currently is that my poor old Xboxs don’t have enough power to handle HD content.
I bought a Xbox 360 in 2005 for two reasons, to play Halo 3 and to get a new HD media centre.  [...]

16Mar2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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My HD Plans For 2007

I read 3 stories yesterday that have helped to shape my HD plans for this year. At the moment I have a great setup for music, pictures and normal DVDs and movies with my media center PC which has oodles of storage, and my Xboxs running XBMC which are connected to my my Plasma [...]

6Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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What New Gadgets Did You Buy In 2006?

I was tidying up some old posts, and I spotted a post I wrote this time last year asking what gadgets were on reader’s shopping lists, and also making my own purchase predictions.
My own predictions proved to be fairly accurate, although I did pick up a few extra bits and bobs I wasn’t expecting. [...]

2Dec2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Competition: CustomPC Will Overclock Your Machine

Three lucky readers of CustomPC will get their PCs tweaked and overclocked by their resident overclocking aficionados, Gareth Ogden and James Gorbold.  In addition, any upgrades will be thrown in for free so expect some goodies if you’re the lucky winner.
I’ve entered my machine as I think it’d make a nice little project because of [...]

24Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Building My First PC Was Easy - Everyone Can Do This

One of the projects I’ve been working on over the Christmas break is building my first PC as my old PC which was over 4 years old started acting up. It’s gone really well and I’ve run a few tests to compare the performance between the old PC and the new machine and there [...]

8Jan2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Netgear WPN-824 RangeMax Mimo Wireless Router Review

I decided over the weekend to replace my D-link DI-624 router when it had problems connecting again, which also lead me to have a nice ‘dispute’ with PCWorld. The signal strength was fluctuating too much making it hard for me to get anything done. It was time to get a WPN-824 which has [...]

8Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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WPN-824 Review

Found the first detailed review of the WPN-824 which has MIMO technology built in and utilises 7 antennas for maximum range and strength.
My dodgy router is being repaired by DLink at the mo. If it comes back still not working properly, I think I’m going to go for one of these as I think [...]

28Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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MIMO Technology

My wireless router is on the blink so I’ve been looking at what new products have come onto the market, and I’ve just come across MIMO technology for the first time. I’m considering buying the Netgear version, the WPN 824, when it hits the UK in May.
I think MIMO, with its increased range could [...]

16Mar2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued