Ryan

First I better describe the Hardware: Acer Aspire 1522LMi (Laptop) D-Link DI-524 (Wireless Router) I have 2 hard wired connectiosn to two computers and one wireless connection to my laptop. This was all working for many months then all of the sudden yesterday my internet crashed nothing worked, so I toke out the d-lnik router to see if it was my modem Bell gave me. After a few hours of playing around with it and many restarts it worked again, but, this time the wireless didn't work. So I went onto my laptop did that thing where Windows goes and repairs the hardware basically resets to defualt

Well I been looking at external sound cards for upgrading my lacking laptop's onboard sound. Now I have leared that a good sound card would have DSP which it's own processor so it doesn't work the CPU and will actaully take work load off of it. Is that true? Also if the above statement is correct that would technically mean in an FPs intense game you "could" get more FPS, and better quality sound. (Would use this external for gaming, music, movies and listening to NHL hockey games over the net.) And is it better for it to be connected via USB 2.0 or Firewire. Also is there any external cards

True, your signal can be affected by a great many things. Ask yourself, what has changed recently? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nothing...it seems like it has great signal gets worse then goes back up now...Maybe it's time taking it's affect on my 30 dollar router?

Sitting right beside the thing I get full speed but at a week ago from anywhere I was getting full speed does the signal get worst as time goes on or something? When right beside I get 54mbps (Routers max) then when I go to where I use to get 54mbps I get 2 - 18 and it sometime has a hadr time connecting and drops sometimes.

Well last few days all of the sudden I been getting really weak conntion signal and it drops alot and sometimes my laptop doesn't decect the wireless siganl for 5 mintues. I got an Acer Aspire 1522LMI The wireless card is:INPROCOMM IPN2220 Wireless LAN Card My wireless router is the d-link di-524 Just this started all of the sudden and I think it's a driver problem...But any suggestions will be helpful.

ISP:Bell Sympatico Last Result: Download Speed: 235 kbps (29.4 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 233 kbps (29.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Wel I was intrested into finding out who made the Hd on my laptop so I dl'ed EVERST Home Edition whihc I have found very useful program anyways I look it's says Seagate the model ete and it says 5400 rpm's then I look at the web site it says 4200 rpm's Heres the website:Seagate Momentus HD How could it say 4200 rpm's for the name and be 5200 rpm's? The EVERST report is the attachment 1.txt

Myself I got a 5400 and a 7500 I notice no difference, but it's there just very minimal. In my opinon it's not worth unless you are building a new computer and plan to play alot of new games.

Yes, but does the Samsung RAM performe better then the Kingston or vice versa or equal?

It's an Acer Aspire 1520 it takes DDR SDRAMPC2700.

Well I've been plaing around with the idea to upgrade my RAM on my notebook and it's already 512 with 64mb shared video. But my local computer store offered me this Samsung RAM But then I went to my local Future shop and saw this Kingston RAM There both the same PC and mhz but there is the difference in price where the KIngston is near 60 dollars cheaper I currently have that exact same stick from Samsung in one of 2 slots Specs:DIMM2: Samsung M4 70L6524BT0-CB3 512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz) But I figured for Samsung to ask for near 60 dollars more their

Id go with the athlon 4000+ with two 6800's instead of one 7800

Very nice, But I agree with whoever said the athlon 64 would be a bit nicer but either way good.

Yeah I'am gonna wait I think it might be better after like 6 months hopefully driver issues will be sorted out by then because almost every review I read of it it says problems with drivers. Also is my computer compatiable with it?

Well I have an Acer Aspire 1520 Notebook which an AMD Athlon 3000+ processor and I have Windows Professional on it at the moment but I was reading about Windows x64 and I was wondering if it is worth the upgrade (ofr the amount of money) or should I wait until more programs are made into 64bit (I'am a bit of a computer noob so I don't know much so if you can explain in easy terms to understand that would be great) And overall does it make a noticable difference well playing games, surfing the net, buring or ripping music? And is it compatiable with my notebook. Here are the specs: Operating Sy