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Belkin Powerline AV 200Mbps Networking Adapter (F5D4072uk)

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Anybody who watches HD content, will know that streaming this across a wireless network is virtually impossible. My upstairs network is wired, however downstairs (my Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3) are all wireless. This has been fine for gaming, web browsing, and everything else I normally use the Internet for downstairs, however it’s just not quick enough to stream HD content. I’m a bit of a AV snob, and like the Video and Audio quality to be the best I can get. I like most people download TV episode from the web (just seems easier than recording via Sky, plus … Continue reading Belkin Powerline AV 200Mbps Networking Adapter (F5D4072uk)

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Windows 7 Beta, a couple of weeks in.

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I’ve now been using windows 7 beta on my spare machine for a couple of weeks, and it pains me to say, I’m impressed.  It’s rock solid, and not fallen over once. The machine I’m running it on is a Dell Vostro 220 that I bought toward the end of last year. The Spec is as follows 2Ghz Core 2 Duo 2Gb Ram 2 x 150Gb Sata Hard Drives ATI 3450 256Mb Dedicated Graphics Onboard sound All driver I’m using are in inbuilt Windows drivers, apart from the ATI drivers which are beta. I’m currently running, Tversity, Utorrent, MKV2VOB, Imgburn, … Continue reading Windows 7 Beta, a couple of weeks in.

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Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive

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I’ve added to my toy collection, I’ve bought (as the title would suggest) a new NAS Drive. I’ve has for the pass couple of years a 500Gb Western Digital MyBookWorld, which as ….well ok, well, slow, unstable, and over heats all the time. I had quite a manual process to back this up too, I had to keep a machine on all the time, to run a scheduled task, to sync all the contents on the NAS drive to an external 500Gb hard drive, this was effective, however kind of overkill for a simple backup solution. btw, the reason I’m … Continue reading Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive