Recent content by Brian_180

Sorry for the necro but I just have to say this is the first time in my 20+ years of computing that I looked up an answer and the solution I found actually worked. Thanks guys.

I've posted here before about my networking issues but recently I upgraded from an ancient Netgear wifi router to an Orbi mesh system so I let those old questions die out as I thought the problem was solved. Some issues are gone and new ones have cropped up. Ever since installing my Orbi, I've...

Not really. I used to be but since going to uni to study IT and learning how to objectively look at information better (we all think we do this but let's be real, lol) I've gotten a lot better at examining the minute details, listing out pros and cons, and all that tedious stuff, before making a...

Thank you both! Very useful info, sorry it took a while to reply I don't get email notifications for some reason. Coincidentally I just had a huge test on commands such as ipconfig last week so I definitely see the usefulness now! Release and renew didn't work in my specific situation so I...

Hi everyone, I don't know if this is just a "everyone in the US is at home watching Netflix right now" issue or what but recently I've started streaming some music production tutorials for friends and I lose my connection to the internet A LOT, and it's only my PC. My phone and our internet...

Just responding to what is actually important in the original post and ignoring the unsubstantiated political nonsense: Both of the claims that it's slower and less secure are false on a practical level. The only thing that makes wifi less secure than ethernet is the user. If you're prone to...

If you're asking if it's normal for your upload speed to be that much lower than your download speed, yes. Upload speeds are basically always slower than download speeds for consumer accounts because the majority of home users aren't uploading vast amounts of data at once.

I'm currently a cybersecurity student and very much still learning so take my advice for what it is. :) Since you're connecting the gaming tower via the RJ45, I don't know what your ISP tech was talking about. As Jimmy said above, your router has gigabit transfer ports so with your 200mbps plan...

Good to know about the new cards coming out later this year, I think your advice is spot on... get a good, inexpensive card to last me til then. Thank you!

Hi everyone! I built my current PC last year and went with a RX 580 simply because that's what I could afford at the time. It'd done me well and to be honest still performs great most of the time, but I think mine might be broken as certain games cause a black screen to appear every few seconds...