I just bought a new wireless setup, consisting of a Cisco E2000 router, Edimax 7718un USB adapter for my laptop and an Edimax 7728in PCI adapter for my HTPC (which isn’t in a location I can run cat5 to). I have to stay in the 2.4GHz band because I have an iPhone and a Wii…
Here’s the thing: I have a cable modem router (Thomson TCW710) with wifi-g that I rent from my cable company. I would like to use a wireless-n router (D-Link DIR-655, that I received for free) with it in order to take advantage of the faster wifi. I basically need advice on how to architecture my…
A Windows update a couple of weeks ago broke miracast on my laptop (Dell XPS13 9350 / i7-6560U / Iris 540). It broke on v1703, and the v1709 update did not fix it. My machine automatically installs all updates from Microsoft. I depend on miracast, at home and work, and this has been pretty painful….
Can most enthusiastic users (even if they are not professionals) use well-known techniques to break through the average home router’s security? Some basic security options are: strong network password with various encryption methods custom router access password WPS no SSID broadcast MAC address filtering Are some of these compromised and what to do to make…
I have cable broadband, and as such the router has to be attached to a cable modem which also has to connect to the TV. That means the router is stuck in the corner of my house. This is good when I’m in the street at the front of the house, but not in my…
Very confused. I’m using inSSiDer, WiFi Overview 360 and Wifi Analyzer apps to try to determine the best wifi channel to use. Assuming all channels are in use and there are about 20 different users in close proximity… Q1: Signal Strength If all channels are in equal use, do you select a channel where…
I have a cell in Excel, to which I want to pull data from another cell that is defined as a value in a third cell. For example: A1=5A2=10A3=insert syntax here, using A4 as source for cell referenceA4=user-input selection When A4 is set to “A1”, then A3 should return 5. When A4 is set to…
Suppose my cell A1 in an Excel spreadsheet holds the number 3.If I enter the formula = – A1^2 + A1 in A2, then A2 shows the number 12, when it should show -6 (or -9+3) Why is that? How can I prevent this misleading behaviour? Solution: Short answer To solve this problem, just add…
Here is my scenario: I have to populate list with dates and some metadata of upcoming events for the following year in my Excel application. Some of the events are occurring on the same day each month, e.g. the 3rd day of month. So the question is: Is there any function so that I can…
I have this conditional formatting set but when I move/delete/copy/cut/paste/insert a cell/row/column my conditional formatting becomes like this The rules have duplicated themselves, the “Applies to” now is broken up and from the little bit you can see one of my blue rules has an altered Rule. Sometimes I make mistakes when making an Excel…
