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This https://www.flyteccomputers.com/product/20818/Ubiquiti-PowerBeam-ac-PBE-5AC-500-4Units-5GHz-airMAX-Bridge-25km-450Mbps-25km-2Pack- is the leading prospect for the bridge link. The leading router, which will be in my house, is probably the critical one. I'm not concerned with wireless...

Well, the time has finally come to upgrade the router. It's an old WRT54G, that has been running DD-WRT for over 10 years. It's worked well for me, but I need more wireless bandwidth and gigabit wired ports. It's also probably a good idea to get up to current wireless security standards...

Thanks. It is definitely a different experience. I never had a complaint with my 19's at 1280x1024 until I saw what newer looks like. I think I'm going to take some time to observe this before buying the next piece. I have noticed some things I did not anticipate. The high resolution makes...

I thought something like that would be a possibility. I can't find a definitive answer as to what HDMI specification the card meets. It's an XFX card, and since they've gone to AMD instead, all reference to nVidia cards seems to be deleted from their website. Most likely, next month, I'll get...

I'm working on upgrading the monitors on my triple monitor machine. I quit gaming years ago, and I'm a long way from being current on hardware trends anymore. This is just a 3 headed web browsing machine, but it suits my needs. It's pretty old stuff. It was 3 19" 4:3 monitors at 1280x1024...

Not far. 50, maybe 60 feet at most. Whatever will reach from the switch to the far end of the house and up through the wall. Far too many people consider me a "computer guy". My current (10 year old) spool of cat5 is about gone. I have the tool to make my own length cables. I'm definitely...

Thanks. That's exactly the kind of details I was looking to learn about this kind of cabling. Kind of analogous to when I wired the house for satellite. RG6 quad shield with solid copper conductor is best, but many out there if they don't specifically say "solid copper" are copper clad iron...

I'm looking to install some ethernet lines in the house. Getting TV's, stationary streaming devices, and other bandwidth hogs off the wireless... I presently have a 10/100 router & switches. This is adequate for now, but I want to wire for Gigabit for the future. I have everything I need...

When did nVidia's Geforce cards start supporting 3 or 4 outputs simultaneously? I have 3 monitors on a computer using a GT240 and a Geforce 210. I'd like to free up the second PCIEx x16 slot, and I'd like to do so with a single card with 4 outputs, and the capability to simultaneously use...

I have Centurtylink DSL (10Mb). It's not much, but it's the best available in my rural area. I own my own DSL modem so that I don't get ripped 5$ a month to rent a $50 piece of hardware. My aging modem is on it's last legs. It drops out a lot, and reading the log file on it indicates it...

Quick question. I know this is old stuff, but the objective here is a free build with leftover parts I have available. It's a dell 780 small form factor pc. It's just a little web browsing/light gaming computer for the kids. Onboard graphics are adequate for what they're doing. I have...

I have to give credit where credit is due. They made good on the warranty the second time, and sent me a new fan/heatsink assembly when the fan broke on the old one.

I thought I had nothing to lose, so I went back through their support website and reported the fan failure, despite the fact they declined to service the card a few years ago when the capacitors failed. There is supposed to be a replacement fan coming in the mail now. I will wait and see what...

At that time, the cards were advertised with "lifetime warranty". I don' think they do that anymore. However, you had to register it online with them within a short period of time (maybe 30 days) for it to be valid, or the lifetime warranty was reduced (to either 1 or 2 years, I don't remember...

I hate XFX's shady lifetime warranty all over again. They wouldn't honor it last time the capacitors died, and I held on to the card thinking I'd recap it someday when I had time, and a use for it. Now it's recapped, but the fan is broke. That's twice failures that should have been...