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speed

Sticky problem

August 23, 2011
Sticky problem

Q: I had always been under the impression that all USB sticks were of the same standard until I recently purchased a new 8GB stick. The new one, a different make from my other, performs much better speed wise, why would this be? Another puzzle, [...]

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Days of speed

August 9, 2011
Days of speed

Q: Perhaps you can explain what is a mystery to me and appears to be a mystery to the telephone help people at both BT and TalkTalk? For the past five years I have been a customer of Tiscali, and fairly satisfied, the speed did [...]

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Fibre diet

July 15, 2011
Fibre diet

Q: There has been much in the media about ISPs overstating broadband speeds (News item PCU130). Indeed, when my ‘up to 8Mbps’ BT contract ran out recently, I signed up to a new BT contract at ‘up to 20MBps’. Whereas I previously got about 3.6MBps at best [...]

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White lightning

July 30, 2010
White lightning

System: AMD 3000, Gigabyte GA7NNXP motherboard, 2GB Kingston PC2700 DDR Memory, PNY 6200 GeForce 512MB graphics, 160GB Maxtor 7200 hard drive, Samsung SyncMaster 245B Monitor Q: I have searched all through the back issues of your magazines to help me find a solution to my [...]

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More speed!

February 18, 2010
More speed!

System: Intel Celeron 2.40GHz, 760MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, LG GCE-8525B CD writer, Sony DRU-V200A DVD writer, Windows XP Home SP3 Q: I purchased my computer in 2004, therefore now it is classed as being old and slow, which is very true. However, I would [...]

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