TheFlyingGerbil Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 I missed out on the goodbye coin so got these instead: which is a set of two coasters. The coins certainly didn't last long until they sold out but I'm sort of glad as it made the decision for me and while I liked the idea of the goodbye coin it would just sit in a cupboard so is a bit of a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Picked this up for pre-order alongside a UU keyring. Should be nice to fill a large white void on my wall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Due later this month. Then my old phone goes to step-mum to replace her super ageing LG P960. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Is that the colours you chose or a stock photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Colours I chose, it gives you a live preview as you build it: https://www.motorola.co.uk/products/motomaker/FLEXR6UK?accent-color=OP106012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 It was on sale. I use hand me down WD Green's in my NAS. It was time. This will eventually be part of at (least) a 3/4 disk array. Next one is HGST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 How is a NAS HDD different to a normal HDD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 I'm not sure on Seagates range, cos in my experience they're one of the worst after Maxtor and since Maxtor has gone bust (and then bought out by Seagate). But I know Western Digital do a range of specific hard drives: Black - Top end stuff, higher RPM, larger cache, higher power use, might as well get a SSD though Blue - Standard hard drive, nice amount of cache, regular speed Green - (which I picked up) Useful as a back-up drive, slower, larger, will go to sleep more often but means it's quieter and less power hungry Red - Designed for NAS, which means it'll last a fair while for back-up purposes and be good for multiple access. Purple - designed for continuous writes for CCTV use and similar. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/- here's a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 4, 2015 Report Share Posted October 4, 2015 How is a NAS HDD different to a normal HDD? By "normal" do you mean desktop? Desktop HDDs are only rated to run for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. NAS HDDs are meant to be ran 24/7. I'm not sure on Seagates range, cos in my experience they're one of the worst after Maxtor and since Maxtor has gone bust (and then bought out by Seagate). Seagate desktop drives are shit. So are WD Greens (what I'm replacing) and Blues. Class is what matters and unfortunately WD has a convoluted setup where they have a bunch of different desktop drives. Brand loyalty is a joke. Hell, WD Reds aren't even 7200 RPM and actually aren't that good for multiple people using it at once. Only the Red Pros are. Reds are best suited for media. One of the reasons I'll be switching between HGST and Seagate for my NAS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 The 500GB version is $139.99 on sale at Amazon today, so I finally pulled the trigger and paid for it using credit card reward points. Going to migrate my OS and newer PC games over to this for the improved load times. Considered getting the 1TB drive for $269.99, but I couldn't cover it with the amount of reward bucks on my credit card. I'm hoping it will also help with pop-in in open world games, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 Well, I did the same. Now I'm going to figure out how to migrate my OS without losing all of my video game progress. I'm excited to get it going! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 There's quite a few cloning tools on the market. I've found some games aren't as blazing fast as I'd have hoped, Witcher 3 could take a while on initial load though I guess it's a pretty huge world. OS boots up like a dream though, especially compared to work PC (both on Win10) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 I really like how fast my Win10 laptop with an SSD boots. My desktop takes a few minutes to fully get up and running, even after I disabled a lot of the programs that would launch on startup. It was also just time to get a new main HDD. MBM - I think there are some posts in the PCs for dummies thread about how to migrate the OS and games to a new, smaller SSD even if all the programs on your current HDD wouldn't fit on the new, smaller drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 I still buy CDs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 My new t-shirt arrived 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 (edited) So I got a Steam Link. The Steam Link itself is totally fine by my standards since it streams great while wired. Some games though seems to act weird and might downright crash. Overall though it is pretty sweet to have my Steam library along with my desktop in my living room. Though I do got 2-3 1 gripes. Gripe one is really the whole UI where a connected mouse is needed. I don't think just having a controller connected will do however I guess this isn't a huge lost since there is certainly more than enough USB/Bluetooth connections for a M+KB. Gripe 2/3 might be unique to me due to some quirkiness of my home network setup. In brief my home network setup is hacked together. My modem is connected to wireless router #1 in my room. This provides wired and wireless internet access to one half of the house. Then router #1 is wired to router #2 to provide wired and wireless internet access to the other half of the house. For the life of me I cannot get a unified SSID between the two routers without router #2 not being able to connect to the internet and be stable. So the routers are running under different SSIDs. I guess technically they are two different networks even though router #2 internet connection is reliant to a wired connection to router #1...? The Steam Link is connected to router #2. My computer is connected to router #1. They cannot talk to each other, wired or wireless (Steam Link to router #2). While I can totally unhook router #2's wired connection to the Steam Link to get it connected to my computer but then I lose wireless connection/strength to half of my house. If I have guests over and we're playing with my Steam Link and they want (a strong) internet access, they're hosed. I'm hosed since data reception at my place, especially in the living room where the Steam Link is at, sucks. I'm sure I'm just not configuring my network correctly... if someone can configure a university to have a singular SSID and have a network that spans the whole campus then it should be possible at my house. tl;dr: The Steam Link is mostly great for my needs but some network problems on my end might hinder its usefulness thus justification for its purchase. See following post for my revelation and spoiler for my problem. Edited November 20, 2015 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I'm sure I'm just not configuring my network correctly... if someone can configure a university to have a singular SSID and have a network that spans the whole campus then it should be possible at my house. I'm not a network engineer and overall it confuses me*, but I'm pretty sure there's a vast difference in cost and hardware between a home router and a university network. Like Ford Focus to Formula 1 orders of magnitude. What I am thinking is maybe a line to follow if my memory serves me is: pursue DMZ Oh and obviously post long term thoughts in Steam console thread. Not that I'm overly interested in it atm since I'm find gaming at my PC, gota TV hooked to it anyway. *I did manage to jerry rig something up when I was at uni to allow my PS3 to connect to the campus network (this is in days before wi-fi was pretty ubiquitous). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 (edited) Holy shit, I just got it working because I cleared up a misconception on my part: The wire from router #1 to router #2 goes to a LAN port (blue), not the WAN port (yellow). Sure the wire from the modem to router #1 goes to the WAN port but from router #1 to #2, it's from LAN-LAN (blue to blue). Previously in my head I saw the WAN port as the "In" port and the LAN ports as the "out" ports. It's kind of correct (reason why my jerry rigged network worked) but not really when connecting up a network. My jerry rigged network actually made a network within the network. From what I understand, the differences between the WAN and LAN ports is really subtle to laymen like me and most people I know. Same plug and shit, so whats the difference right? My jerry rigging made a client bridge when I wanted a wireless access point. God fucking damn, this problem that has vexed me since middle school has been conquered. Since I could always get the client bridge AKA my jerry rig working, I assumed that it was either my hardware or provided software that didn't enable me to pull this off. The only odd thing now is that the switch between routers is not seamless. There seems to be an area in the house where wireless devices get confused and refuse to work until you turn the wifi in your device on and off. No biggie because I got this shit to work (at 3 AM)! And for sure I'll post some long term thoughts about the Link later. tl;dr: WAN port =/= "In" port and LAN port =/= "Out" port. Edited November 20, 2015 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Yeah, WAN = Wide Area Network (aka, The Internet, as well as say campus intranet and such), LAN = Local Area Network (aka home/office network). The big difference being how it deals with IPs. The Internet has like all the IPs (even more with IPv6), but LAN is usually on 192.168.0.#, from 1-256 (which obviously limits the amount of devices, and we've counted and at home we're only like at least a dozen at anyone time up to a good two dozen and beyond if we have a party). It uses "subnet masking" which I only know enough of to say that to make sure that if your phone for example requests access to this site, your phone gets the site and not your roomies. In your case your 2nd router was acting as a phone would and making requests as a 192.168.0.# IP, and not making requests as your home IP. I largely avoid networks and printers though, they're the work of the devil. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 You should also be able to go into the firmware settings on Router 2 and change the WAN port to behave as a LAN port, that way you still have the same number of ports. That's how mine's set up at home. Now that you've got them both on the same subnet the wireless issue should be as easy as just giving them the same SSID and password. That's also how mine is set up at home and it behaves just like the campus networks you're describing, where it's transparent from my end which router my device is actually connected to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Wasn't even actively looking for one of these, but for £5 figured it'd be worth a bit of fun to try out: Was a bit fiddly to make mind, and largely held together by the tension of the velcro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Mine's not even supposed to ship for another 3-5 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Scratch that, it just shipped. Yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 My laptop's trackpad buttons don't work as well as they used to and I don't want to use a wired mouse with a laptop so I picked this up for 20 bucks, which was a pretty good deal as it usually costs 40. It's comfortable, the dongle is tiny and unobtrusive, and it has extra buttons that I like to use for navigating webpages. Not too shabby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Today I purchased an iPhone 6S. It was $50 new! My iPhone 5 was getting old, and this sure is slick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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