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OriginalGriff wrote: If I could get cable, I would.
Great for internet but the TV is poor. Was thinking of ditching the TV part and getting Hulu/Netflix but I wouldn't really save any money.
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I was going to mention that. The price at that speed is unheard of in most of Norway. I pay around 28£/month for 230 KB/s, and that's pretty normal, and I cant get more. 
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0.23 Mbps? 
I didn't realize that Norway was a third world country... 
That's terrible! How can your businesses get anything done?
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Ehm, 0.23 Mega Bytes per second, not 0.23 Mega bit per second. Its still bad, but not a disaster.
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Phew! 
So around 2 ~ 2.5 Mbps? That's not bad - borderline for streaming movies, but it's not too bad for surfing at all.
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Yes, its multiplied by 8 isn't it? Surfing in general is fine, but for watching movies its a bit low. I have to turn down the quality a bit to make them watchable.
I think its the geography of Norway that's the problem, that and the fact that 20% of the population demands to live in places that are unassailable by fiber due to the price.
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8-ish...it's packet data, so there are overheads to add to the message data bit count, plus the ACK / NAK stuff - I generally work on bytes = bps / 10 as a rule of thumb.
It was easier in the old days with framing sent with each byte! 
(But a damn sight slower)
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Ah yes, I keep forgetting that data is transmitted in packages, and does not claim a line like the phone does. More flexible, but a little slower for each person. 
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BTW: that may change: the cost of materials for fibre is typically 1~5% of that of copper - so if the world copper price continues to rise, they may start laying fibre in order to reclaim the copper and sell it! It's currently around US$5000 per ton, and it doesn't take much cable to run up that much...and of course, they can charge you for the upgrade as well.
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That would depend on the labor cost I assume, and the depth the cable is buried under. The state controlled Telenor company is currently arguing about the depth the new cables should be at, they want 40 cm maximum, while the local municipalities want it to be at 60 cm due to road maintenance issues. Case in Norwegian[^]
Don't think they are planning any such feature, I assume they think its money out the window. It seems they would rather want people to use wireless 4G, as they get more money for that and its cheaper to upgrade.
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So I take it you have fibre optic from the exchange ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yep! Fibre optic from the exchange to the "final distribution" box and then copper to subscriber premises. Which means in my case about 50m of copper in the entire run.
And that copper is brand spanking new, having been fitted last summer after the old cable was cut. So I should get a pretty good speed, with any luck.
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Can't you invest in 50m of fibre to finish the job off ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Lucky you: I can't even have 0,64 Mbps (yes, lowercase "b") with copper and the line service refuses to bring me any cable at all - since the cabinet is full I can't even have the phone.
And the price would be ~50£/month for that amazing speed... Now I'm connected throug a radio bridge that gets to 7 Mbps, normally I'm able to substain 3.2 without major problems. Except for the rainy or windy days it is reliable too, much more than fiber/copper providers in Italy.
Of course we have only mobile phones, which is not bad as we can skip the base price of 25£/month for the privilege of having the phone in 2015.
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Hello all!
Yesterday I went to my inlaws house and I spent half the afternoon solving the GPU issue, after discovering the BIOS was already updated  I got a PSU and installed it into that computer, then the steps that were in the youtube video posted by @KornfeldEliyahuPeter and @Paul-S-Wilcox helped a lot, definitely it was the motherboard what was impeding the system to start as I was even able to start it with the original 300W PSU following the steps depicted on the video... after all I've changed the PSU for a brand new 600W one and everything is ready.
during this week they'll meditate if waiting two minutes to start the computer while pressing keys at specific moments will be ok or not... if it's ok I'm ready, if it's not I'll have to change the mobo... 
anyway, thank you guys and gals, you've really helped me, as always!
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I somehow was expecting a report about a computer goes in flames...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, I was thinking that we would appear in the evening news... you know, building demolished caused by a PSU short circuit...
Wait for the next week when they decide what to do regarding the mother board... if they decide to get a new one... dismounting the current one will work for sure, assembling the new one should not be a problem... the only thing is scary is the thermal paste thing... I've never done it in the past... So don't worry your report will come sooner or later...
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Thermal paste isn't a problem: a little goes a long way!
But...quality of the paste is important.
See here: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/geek_tested_17_thermal_pastes_face[^] - it's worth looking at the results summary on page two and the different in temperatures they got with the different pastes. Especially once dust starts to build up in the fans and the efficiency of the air flow drops.
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Glad to be of some help. If it's possible, you may find that exchanging the nVidia card for an equivalent AMD card may cure the problem.
I have an nVidia GTX750Ti card and although I've had no hardware incompatibility problems on my rig, I've had plenty of problems with Linux either not installing or driver problems. It seems that something has radically altered on these newer cards compared to the older nvidia ones.
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Haven't had a haircut in ~5 yrs so even though the second one looks interesting the first one would be my choice.
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My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Haha, oh well, just for your general knowledge! 
I don't live in America myself! so...
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I just noticed, Syncfusion is offering a community license of all their controls for free, http://www.syncfusion.com/products/communitylicense[^] The page says they liked what Microsoft did with Visual Studio Community, and decided they would do the same. It is crazy what has happened for individual and small teams of software developers in the last couple months.
modified 24-Jan-15 23:46pm.
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Thanks downloading now and going to kick the tires.
Need to add this to the Free Tools forum!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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