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Originally Posted by eric generic

I was thinking more along the lines of This. it's not adding length.

I will try to aim my antennae towards my computer now though. they should be aimed at a 90% angle towards my computer?

no leeching is occurring. I have checked it at random times when my latency went to crap.

Hmm... might as well give the antenna thing a try. Can't hurt anything as long as it isn't physically touching the metallic interior of the AP's antenna. If you're on the same floor with the AP, the antennas should be vertical, 90 degrees to the floor, like the long part of an L. You don't have to worry about angling them towards the 90 degree direction of your computer, as the antennas are omni-directional and the propagation pattern is vertically "thick" enough so that you'll be in the 1st fresnel zone regardless, but by all means, experiment.

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Here's something interesting;
When you're installing windows 7, you could run into the problem that every step takes an awful long time to load. Nothing happens or 5 to 10 minutes and all of a sudden stuf works again, until the next step. I've just been staring at 'setup is starting' for 10 minutes and I figured that I didn't want my whole setup to go that way, so I did some googling.
Turned out the solution is turning off your floppydrive in the bios (!).
People had similar problems with hooked up cardreaders and iPods.
Apparently 7 setup checks for stuff on every drive every now and then. Which is annoying.

So remember that; Slow Windows 7 setup? And I don't mean sluggish, I mean slow as in, nothing happens for long periods of time, no HDD action, no CD action; Turn off your drives with removable storage!

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Originally Posted by s_k

Here's something interesting;
When you're installing windows 7, you could run into the problem that every step takes an awful long time to load. Nothing happens or 5 to 10 minutes and all of a sudden stuf works again, until the next step. I've just been staring at 'setup is starting' for 10 minutes and I figured that I didn't want my whole setup to go that way, so I did some googling.
Turned out the solution is turning off your floppydrive in the bios (!).
People had similar problems with hooked up cardreaders and iPods.
Apparently 7 setup checks for stuff on every drive every now and then. Which is annoying.

So remember that; Slow Windows 7 setup? And I don't mean sluggish, I mean slow as in, nothing happens for long periods of time, no HDD action, no CD action; Turn off your drives with removable storage!

What do you mean, when Windows 7 is being installed into the computer, or when you turn the computer on and the OS is loading?

And people still have floppy drives? O_o

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When windows 7 is installing. The installation itselves is really really slow then.
And what you ask reminds me of another thing: If you have an asus laptop and it boots ****ing slow, check if there's a card in the cardreader

I use floppy drives, yes. I mess around a bit with old Laptops and MSX computers.
And if I remove the floppy drive there's a hole in my computer.
I will replace it with a cardreader soon, though. I'll juse an external usb floppy drive.

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Our desktop computer has a floppy drive, but it's almost 10 years old! I stopped using floppies when USB flash drives became more popular. You can store like 1 million times the information on those things

I may look into getting an external floppy drive, because I have a huge collection of floppies that have all kinds of old, 8-bit type games on them.

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google 'abandonware'.
Thank me later.
When you discover that these old games won't work on later windowses, get yourself a Dell GX1 with a Voodoo III like I have done. It's great .

And I use the floppies only to install old computers.
Haven't got a clue what else I should use them for

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Originally Posted by s_k

google 'abandonware'.
Thank me later.
When you discover that these old games won't work on later windowses, get yourself a Dell GX1 with a Voodoo III like I have done. It's great .

And I use the floppies only to install old computers.
Haven't got a clue what else I should use them for

Cool! All kinds of old games on that site

I really don't know what else you'd be able to use a floppy disk for. A 3 1/2 inch disk can really only hold about 200 MB at maximum capacity.

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Hahaha, oh my goodness I'm growing old, people are forgetting about floppies .
A floppy can hold up to 2mb at a maximum. Usually it's just 1.38mb formatted .
There's no way you're going to get 200mb's onto a floppy.

But yes, that's all I use them for.
To copy old games and software to computers who don't have access to internet themselves.

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Sorry, I meant to say 2 MB's! I guess I was thinking about something else when I wrote that

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You were thinking of loads of MB's .
I hated diskettes from day one. I always had problems with them.
Even a new box of premium brand diskettes always had a few dead ones in them.
5 1/4" Floppies FTW!