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Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
October 07 2015 18:28 GMT
#11221
Does anyone know how you do reduce wlan range? I dont like I can have acces to ~20 fritzboxes (from all neighbors) in my attic. I have tested and still got acces 5 houses further from same router... horrific range imo.
I am installing a fritzbox tomorrow (finally one) for me because I have to replace my analog stuff and ancient technology. I see signal from fritzbox 7490, 7390, 7170, 7330 etc whatever else I see on my smartphone right now -.-
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
WonnaPlay
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands912 Posts
October 07 2015 18:39 GMT
#11222
On October 08 2015 03:28 Dingodile wrote:
Does anyone know how you do reduce wlan range? I dont like I can have acces to ~20 fritzboxes (from all neighbors) in my attic. I have tested and still got acces 5 houses further from same router... horrific range imo.
I am installing a fritzbox tomorrow (finally one) for me because I have to replace my analog stuff and ancient technology. I see signal from fritzbox 7490, 7390, 7170, 7330 etc whatever else I see on my smartphone right now -.-


Why would you do that? Can you edit the settings yourself on the fritzbox? Just rename it, to anything you like.
Also, if you just save the network and remove all other links you have with any other wifi, there should be no trouble..

In the case of interference, try and check if your devices can see 5G networks, then set your router to 5Ghz mode and there should be 0 interference, since it has much shorter range (through walls) and more channels than the standard 2.4Ghz networks.

Maybe this reply is not what you mean, in that case, I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish here.
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany12060 Posts
October 07 2015 18:59 GMT
#11223
And, in you home you usually have 5 bars network to your own Fritzbox (also renaming is useful), and 1-2 star to all of your neighbours, so yours is easily identifiable. And since you have a gigantic password on it, it really doesn't matter if anyone can see it.

If you really want to be shielded, cover your walls in something that conducts electric current (Tin foil should actually work, and that is not even a joke). A faraday cage is very good at isolating electromagnetic radiation, and that is how wlan works.
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
October 07 2015 19:54 GMT
#11224
thx for replys. I dont like if you see my/any router 5 houses along (ofc with stars). All I want that I have my internet within one house. If you go outside, no internet access.

wlan ranges from fritzboxes are just OP. ~15walls or ~150m away and you still have internet. I am not talking about my fritzbox but all other in my environment.
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
WonnaPlay
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands912 Posts
October 07 2015 19:57 GMT
#11225
On October 08 2015 04:54 Dingodile wrote:
thx for replys. I dont like if you see my/any router 5 houses along (ofc with stars). All I want that I have my internet within one house. If you go outside, no internet access.

wlan ranges from fritzboxes are just OP. ~15walls or ~150m away and you still have internet. I am not talking about my fritzbox but all other in my environment.


But noone can connect to your fritzbox if you have a good password on it, so why does it matter?
What is so uncomfortable for you?
I understand you might think that it is "unsafe" or "easy to hack into", but WPA2 is not that easy to crack if you have a decent randomized password.
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany12060 Posts
October 07 2015 20:09 GMT
#11226
In that case, your only choice will be to coat the outside walls of your house in a faraday cage.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-08 02:02:59
October 08 2015 01:51 GMT
#11227
If fritzbox has it, you can disable SSID broadcasting. Unconnected devices won't "see" the network as a result; you'll have to manually enter it to connect a device (usually through a "connect to hidden network" option).

On October 08 2015 02:49 waffelz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2015 09:18 Craton wrote:
Definitely get something ~1080p and not e.g. 768p. You'll hate life programming on small res (pretty much double the lines of code vertically).

Yeah my current laptopscreen is 12.5" 768p. I initially got it for a different subject and got used to it but I know the struggle which is why I won’t simply replace the screen but rather get a new laptop. I am surprised that prices seem to be much more stable than for desktop hardware though. I dropped about 1k on my current laptop 4 years ago and expected to easily get something much better now in the same price range, but apparently I was mistaken.

I got my XPS 12 "used" on Amazon for ~$850. Full price was $1700s. Might've been a refurb, I don't remember.

Can consider doing that to save a lot.
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Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-10 17:16:07
October 10 2015 17:14 GMT
#11228
my fritzbox 7490 doesn't offer to disable 5Ghz band?! I remember from other fritzboxes that you can disable it at fritz.box/
My TV has this problem, it prefers to connect 5Ghz and 3% signal than 2,4Ghz and 20%.
20% signal is enough and stable in my case (40mbit/s possible). You can see all informations on fritz.box/
edit: 3% is an imposition while 20% is fluently.
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
BlackCompany
Profile Joined August 2012
Germany8388 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-11 19:48:39
October 11 2015 19:46 GMT
#11229
Don't know if this is right here, kind of a website feedback-ish thing i guess i am gonna try anyway!

So i got a problem with Firefox while browsing teamliquid.net. If i have Addblock disabled (which i usually have), the memory usage of my adobe player just sky rockets when i am on TL. But only when i am on TL. Works fine with other websites. It goes higher and higher till my Firefox crashes. If i enable addblock or just stop loading the website at some point (When you can see text etc but Advertisements and graphics are not loaded yet) it works, altough a little slower. Does anyone have an idea what causes this (i guess some Adds do?) and how to fix it?

Edit: It's actually the video player (adobe player) that has increasing memory and crashes, forcing firefox to crash as well
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
October 11 2015 21:22 GMT
#11230
@BlackCompany
This has been reported several times. I have this problem since videos (as ads, O2 player) are showing on right sidebar. My Chrome and FF have strong problems with it while IE works fluently.
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
BlackCompany
Profile Joined August 2012
Germany8388 Posts
October 11 2015 21:42 GMT
#11231
On October 12 2015 06:22 Dingodile wrote:
@BlackCompany
This has been reported several times. I have this problem since videos (as ads, O2 player) are showing on right sidebar. My Chrome and FF have strong problems with it while IE works fluently.

Ah okay, thanks for letting me know!
I hope it gets fixed somewhat soon then haha
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
October 12 2015 12:39 GMT
#11232
Is there an easy way to fix boot errors on Windows 7?

My brother in law filled his SSD to capacity, which I think caused the boot errors. I plugged the SSD into my computer and removed a lot of the videos to make space. Now I'm wondering if I can repair it while it's plugged into my computer or alternatively by booting his computer from a windows USB and having it automatically fix. Any advice?
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
October 12 2015 17:27 GMT
#11233
Not really sure what you mean by boot errors. You can try booting through the windows CD and running the repair tool there.
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jbui
Profile Joined May 2010
United States193 Posts
October 12 2015 20:02 GMT
#11234
Can I reformat my hard drive using a Windows 10 media drive and the product key given to me for my free upgrade to windows 10?

Or do I need my old windows 8.1 key to verify that I had Windows before I can re-install Windows 10?
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
October 12 2015 20:09 GMT
#11235
I tried that and the auto repair didn't work. Wondering if I have to reformat or if there's some other way to fix it. I get the boot error, "No bootable media something" on a black screen when trying to boot from the SSD.
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-12 21:24:39
October 12 2015 21:22 GMT
#11236
On October 13 2015 05:02 jbui wrote:
Can I reformat my hard drive using a Windows 10 media drive and the product key given to me for my free upgrade to windows 10?

Or do I need my old windows 8.1 key to verify that I had Windows before I can re-install Windows 10?

Last time I looked into this, I found that Microsoft's activation servers learn about your particular machine when you upgrade to Windows 10. If you then in the future want to re-install Windows 10, you do so without entering a product key. Windows 10 will activate after the installation completes because the activation servers will recognize your machine.

If you want to install the "free" Windows 10 on a different machine, you first have to install Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 and then do the upgrade to make the activation servers learn about that different machine.

On a desktop PC, the motherboard is supposedly what's used to identify your machine. The other parts can all be changed and the activation servers will still recognize the PC as being the same machine.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-12 21:33:58
October 12 2015 21:24 GMT
#11237
On October 13 2015 05:09 Durak wrote:
I tried that and the auto repair didn't work. Wondering if I have to reformat or if there's some other way to fix it. I get the boot error, "No bootable media something" on a black screen when trying to boot from the SSD.

There are command line tools to maybe fix things on the installation media. Search for "fixboot" and "bootrec" to try to find a guide for that stuff.

EDIT: New PCs use "UEFI" boot and adding that to the search might be important to not find guides that are only for old BIOS and "MBR" boot problems.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
xeo1
Profile Joined October 2011
United States429 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-13 03:11:59
October 13 2015 03:10 GMT
#11238
I have a problem with the screen being black with cursor showing when launching windows, after deleting nvidia drivers. The mobo screen shows, however. Went like this:

After getting the latest geforce driver required for star wars battlefront, the game crashed. Then I tried playing csgo, and it kept freezing when I joined a game. So I deleted nvidia drivers, except for audio/physicx because they didn't uninstall for some reason. I reinstalled the driver version I had before. Csgo still froze. So I finally deleted audio/physix, still froze. Then I reinstalled the same driver, this time with corresponding audio/physix. Still froze. Then I changed value.txt stuff, disabled multicore rendering, still froze. Then I deleted drivers, and restarted PC. This is when the screen went blank. I tried taking out and jumping CMOS, booting safe mode, booting with onboard gpu, cleaned PC, and even did the shift spam on blank screen and windows + u to try to get to control panel, as well as ctrl + alt + del. Any ideas on fixing it?
WonnaPlay
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands912 Posts
October 13 2015 10:50 GMT
#11239
On October 13 2015 12:10 xeo1 wrote:
I have a problem with the screen being black with cursor showing when launching windows, after deleting nvidia drivers. The mobo screen shows, however. Went like this:

After getting the latest geforce driver required for star wars battlefront, the game crashed. Then I tried playing csgo, and it kept freezing when I joined a game. So I deleted nvidia drivers, except for audio/physicx because they didn't uninstall for some reason. I reinstalled the driver version I had before. Csgo still froze. So I finally deleted audio/physix, still froze. Then I reinstalled the same driver, this time with corresponding audio/physix. Still froze. Then I changed value.txt stuff, disabled multicore rendering, still froze. Then I deleted drivers, and restarted PC. This is when the screen went blank. I tried taking out and jumping CMOS, booting safe mode, booting with onboard gpu, cleaned PC, and even did the shift spam on blank screen and windows + u to try to get to control panel, as well as ctrl + alt + del. Any ideas on fixing it?


It seems you have tried alot of things, which are not the cause of the issue
It's quite possible you have messed with the registry.

The cause for the uninstall error is unknown, you have done alot of things, which could cause issues so the best thing you can do is revert back to an older working setup. (preferably before you installed the latest drivers).
To do this :

During boot press F8 --> Advanced boot options --> Repair your computer --> System Restore --> Date from XXX time ago.
Or
During boot press F8 --> Advanced boot options --> Last good known configuration.

Also try and run malwarebytes(.org) & your virus scanner for a full sweep, since the black booting screen cán be malware aswell (although reviewing your case, it is probably not in this instance).
xeo1
Profile Joined October 2011
United States429 Posts
October 14 2015 01:07 GMT
#11240
On October 13 2015 19:50 WonnaPlay wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2015 12:10 xeo1 wrote:
I have a problem with the screen being black with cursor showing when launching windows, after deleting nvidia drivers. The mobo screen shows, however. Went like this:

After getting the latest geforce driver required for star wars battlefront, the game crashed. Then I tried playing csgo, and it kept freezing when I joined a game. So I deleted nvidia drivers, except for audio/physicx because they didn't uninstall for some reason. I reinstalled the driver version I had before. Csgo still froze. So I finally deleted audio/physix, still froze. Then I reinstalled the same driver, this time with corresponding audio/physix. Still froze. Then I changed value.txt stuff, disabled multicore rendering, still froze. Then I deleted drivers, and restarted PC. This is when the screen went blank. I tried taking out and jumping CMOS, booting safe mode, booting with onboard gpu, cleaned PC, and even did the shift spam on blank screen and windows + u to try to get to control panel, as well as ctrl + alt + del. Any ideas on fixing it?


It seems you have tried alot of things, which are not the cause of the issue
It's quite possible you have messed with the registry.

The cause for the uninstall error is unknown, you have done alot of things, which could cause issues so the best thing you can do is revert back to an older working setup. (preferably before you installed the latest drivers).
To do this :

During boot press F8 --> Advanced boot options --> Repair your computer --> System Restore --> Date from XXX time ago.
Or
During boot press F8 --> Advanced boot options --> Last good known configuration.

Also try and run malwarebytes(.org) & your virus scanner for a full sweep, since the black booting screen cán be malware aswell (although reviewing your case, it is probably not in this instance).


The last good known config also led to blank screen. The system restore says to remove media before continuing, even though only peripherals and monitor are plugged in.
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