Howdy! I just got upgraded to the VDSL service of my ISP (branded it “TurboDSL”) but now I tried swedish “bredbandskollen” (webbased tool for measuring the access speed of the broadband). The service should offer up to 20-40 Mbit/s downstream and some 10Mbit/s upstream. I reached a measly 8Mbit/s on the downlink. This is total [...]
It seems I will never be an Ubuntu friend. It has AGAIN crapped on me twice! * My daughters PC is based on an ASUS motherboard, but it seems that the NIC (Network Interface Card) doesn’t work. There are a few more or less complex solutions to it, but it seems no plug and play [...]
OK, I fixed my oldest daughters PC broken. A bit of patching and fixing, wherafter the Windows XP installation was f*cked. Mea culpa – noone else to blame … I installed Ubuntu, mainly to recover her files but it seems she finds it acceptable so it might be that we skip the Windows installation altogether. [...]
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