...And just to touch on the whole "health" thing—your phone pulls about 2 watts while a router sits at maybe 0.1 watts. But you aren't pressing a phone against your ear all day, right? So, you have to realize the EM field from your phone is basically 2,000 times stronger than the Wi-Fi router sitting just a few feet away.
Like my buddy already mentioned, just send over those specs so we can figure out how to get your internet up and running through the router..
ps: Honestly, not a single long-term study has ever proven any link between EM radiation and cancer cells. Most of these scares are just being pushed by "scammers" trying to sell you overpriced phone stickers, special wall paint, or "protective" mattresses... LOL
...or maybe the wires right where the cord meets the mouse just finally gave out after years of heavy use... you could always just trim back that section of the cable if you know someone who’s handy with a soldering iron.
...for me, it just happened naturally...back when I was in elementary school, people were running torrents until their hard drives were basically choked out, but I never dropped the cash to burn CDs or upgrade to a bigger drive 😁 By the time I hit middle school, I noticed nobody even had BitTorrent installed anymore...most of them had actually made a little pocket money over the summer...so I asked, where's the BitTorrent? ...they tell me they don't need it...if they want a movie, there are tons of sites where you can just stream everything without downloading, and if they ever actually need a program, they'll grab it without needing BitTorrent....basically, the problem solved itself 🙂
...look, we're talking about kb/s here, not Mb... there isn't actually any downloading happening, it's just a constant "handshake" between your router and your PC
...if you pulled the heatsink and the CPU fan off to clean things out... maybe you didn't seat them back down right? It could be overheating and just shutting itself off because of that.
That’s exactly why your connection feels like it’s crawling whenever a system update starts downloading... honestly, just let it rip. Let it finish the download and even if you shut down, it'll handle the installation. When you boot back up, things might feel a little sluggish while the OS settles in (and yeah, it’ll probably nag you to restart the PC at some point). Once those updates clear out in a day or two, your computer will actually feel snappy again, and your internet won't be fighting for its life against that massive download. Some people try to block the installs to save time... but I wouldn't recommend it. You really want those security patches and the latest drivers running smoothly.
Ever tried laying those router antennas flat? Like, pointing them horizontally instead of up? You might actually get double the signal strength on your floor.
Think of those little stick antennas on your router like a lightbulb. They don't just shoot light straight up or down; they cast this glow in a big circle around them. Most of that signal is pushing out sideways, while there’s pretty much nothing happening directly above or below the tip.
It doesn't say which motherboard we're talking about here... Like I said before, if you just wipe the drive, delete those partitions, and start fresh—and make sure you try a full format, even though it takes forever—you shouldn't be seeing any errors during the install. Once the OS is actually up and running, that’s the only time 😁 you should be using Internet Explorer to grab an antivirus and a better browser. Get those updated, run a restart, and then move on to drivers and other software. If everything seems solid, go ahead and create a restore point, then start moving your photos, videos, and music back onto the machine. (If there's any malware hiding in your files, the antivirus should catch it then...) ps: Personally, I'd also throw Malwarebytes on there and maybe some disk utility tool to check the drive's health.
...I’d never touch something like that with a ten-foot pole... I just hope it actually lives up to the price tag, because honestly, it looks like your run-of-the-mill gadget with zero better alternatives out there. It's just "made in China," and let's be real, those marketing gurus just cooked up that "General Electric" title to sound fancy... meanwhile, the actual power is only 100mW. LOL
??? Is it a USB Wi-Fi adapter or some kind of 3G dongle... what kind of thing is it exactly? Does it have any labels on it? And does everyone else get the same connection when they're standing in the same spot you are?
So, if you run ipconfig, that’s just going to show you the local IP address your PC is using to talk to your router... but once you actually hit the open internet, your DSL modem is broadcasting a totally different address that websites see when you're browsing ..for example, you can check out what that public address looks like over at http://www.whatismyip.com/
Try to hunt down an online manual for that router you ordered.... some of those models let you toggle the operating mode in the settings, like switching between Annex A and Annex B... if you get lucky with the one you picked.
I don't get why everyone is overthinking this... I already laid out how to fix the issue, and we all saw she stepped up and confirmed it was sorted. Why bother running a bunch of extra installs and scans when everything is working perfectly? Or is the rule here "why take the easy route when you can make it complicated"? 😢 Look, I'm no rookie. I've been messing with computers since the days of the original IBM PCs, and honestly, I've been at this for well over fifty years now.😁
My bad... I just assumed there was some antivirus issue going on, and she mentioned it was just the homepage that changed. So, basically, just switch it back to what it used to be... you know, Google.
ps: ...seriously, how can you just tell someone they're talking "bullshit"... where's your class?
It’s not really about the distance here... the guy making the antenna literally says it has a 50-degree beamwidth. That means you actually have to point it directly at the device you're trying to link up with. You could easily pull off a solid connection from over half a mile away, provided you've got a clear line of sight between your antenna and the other gear. Also, just a heads-up: if you're living in a crowded city area packed with WiFi signals, any nearby routers sitting on the same channel—basically anything closer or stronger than your target—are going to drown out your signal. That's what causes the lag or the whole connection just dropping out entirely. Same goes for anyone in the house hogging the bandwidth by jumping on that same WiFi with their phone, laptop, or tablet 😢
Judging by the photo, if this thing actually had decent WiFi, you’d be looking at maybe a 10 dB boost. But honestly? Between the length of that cable—which I haven't even identified yet—and whatever signal loss is happening along the way... everything you gain gets swallowed up by the cord before it even hits the router 😢 ...The only real upside here is the antenna's directionality and the fact that you can mount it outside the house 🙂
shadowgardener12 said:It’s established that 50 Hz electromagnetic fields can trigger both double and single-strand DNA breaks in occasionally exposed human fibroblasts, suggesting potential genotoxic effects. (ADLKOFER ET AL. 2002).
Translated from a dissertation at Munich University, 2004
*fibroblast - a connective tissue cell vital for synthesizing intercellular substance and tissue healing
But what about those studies on workers who spend their entire careers working in electrical substations and don't show any increased tumor rates compared to everyone else?
For those of you absolutely convinced this stuff is dangerous... just rip out the AC from your houses and switch to DC... it doesn't radiate.🙂