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Sun Oct 7, 2012 5:25 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"John Masters" joemastersk
Thanks Les,
I think I'll get one. I had heard the Hitachi drives are excellent but didn't know that G-Tech used them.
On 7 Oct 2012, at 12:29, Les Streater <lesstreater@marpubs.demon.co.uk > wrote:
> I have three G-Tech externals plus a G-Safe Raid, rate them very highly. They contain Hitachi professional level drives.
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> It's a shame G-Tech have stopped the G-Safe, this was a superb product.
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> Alternatively look at the Glyph drives, these are getting some very good reviews lately.
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> Les Streater
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I think I'll get one. I had heard the Hitachi drives are excellent but didn't know that G-Tech used them.
On 7 Oct 2012, at 12:29, Les Streater <lesstreater@
> I have three G-Tech externals plus a G-Safe Raid, rate them very highly. They contain Hitachi professional level drives.
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> It's a shame G-Tech have stopped the G-Safe, this was a superb product.
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> Alternatively look at the Glyph drives, these are getting some very good reviews lately.
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> Les Streater
> www.lesstreater.
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Sun Oct 7, 2012 5:40 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Noel Vetter" crankeegeezer
Yes.....I have purchased Mac games from them over the past several years.
Believe they are in Paris, France, but not sure. Had one small problem
with one of their games and never did hear back from support on the
problem. Games are great, support stinks IMHO.
Crankeegeezer
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Believe they are in Paris, France, but not sure. Had one small problem
with one of their games and never did hear back from support on the
problem. Games are great, support stinks IMHO.
Crankeegeezer
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Sun Oct 7, 2012 6:20 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"pat412255" pat412255
My situation is much like what David described in his post. I use an Airport Express to extend my network from my house, which has very thick walls, to my office, which is a trailer, a little over 100' away with excellent results.
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> I had an older airport extreme base station. I upgrade to a newer one to enhance our service. In our new house in Phoenix it would not consistently work to the back patio. We also had a long house. Also every so often it would go to a orange light instead of green. I decide to try and expand my system using the older airport extreme.
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> Called apple support. Found out that I needed to update the software(orange light). Did that & the tech worked me thru setting up the extension also. The older unit is sitting on a book case at the far end of the house. Now we have WiFi all over the back yard & thru out the house. No cable hooked between the two base stations.
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> Jus my opinion but I would get a new expert. I have a router from cox cable in our current home ONLY because it supplies both Internet & phone. Then there is a short cable from cox-box to 1st Apple Extreme Base Station. Then at least 50' to 2nd base station. No physical connection. ;-)
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> David
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> On Oct 6, 2012, at 10:41 AM, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@..
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> > You say you have a long house. That could be the problem. Imagine in you mind the path the WiFi has to travel to get from the router or the antenna to the receiving laptop. If it has to go through more than a foot of studs or other solid objects that may be the problem. A brick firewall, refrigerator, circuit breaker box or wall full of water pipes and plumbing vent stacks could be the problem.
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> > What is your house constructed of?
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> > Yes, a combination of WiFi base stations & repeating units could fix your issue. You might be able to configure it with an Airport Express or two to give you good signal strength throughout your home.
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> > Airport Express is a cheaper solution if all you are going to do is use bridge mode to extend your range. I would talk to another local "expert". Small Dog Electronics is in your neck of the words, and they may be able to help or at least get you started by phone.
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> > On Oct 6, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Joan B. Sax, Ph.D. wrote:
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> > I just had a computer "expert" come to my house and install an extender that had to be linked to my router so it was only a foot or less from the router. It improved slightly reception in the most distant part of the house as long as I was standing in the hallway (I have a long single story house with the router and modem at one end of the house where our desktop computers are), but not when I went into the dining/kitchen area or the living room. In other words, it really didn't do what I wanted. The only other solution offered by this person was to connect some sort of device by cable to my router, a distance of over 50 feet, requiring drilling through wall, etc. I have spent about twice what I wanted to spend because I had to pay for the tech's time and I don't want him in the house again!!
> > So here is my question, with my current wireless router connected to a modem at one end of the house, could I use Airport Extreme at the other end of the house and have it increase the wi-fi signal without having to connect it via a cable to the router? What I want is to be able to use my MacBook Air and my iPhone (and maybe, some day, an iPad) at the other end of the house and have a decent wi-fi signal. Would Airport Extreme do that for me?
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> > Joan in Vermont where leaf peepers are somewhat disappointed because the leaves didn't wait for their arrival to fall.
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Sun Oct 7, 2012 8:22 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"John Mills" jsm5320432
I tried one of the Bear Extenders for Mac on an old ibook which had a failed airport card. It worked well and now the old ibook is able to access the internet on our local Airport Extreme network.
I also tried it on my MacBook pro. You must turn off your airport in your computer to make it work and in our network, while it improved range in picking up other networks - some nearly 1/2 mile away, it's connection speed is slower by about 30-40% than the built in airport card.
So, my assessment is they can extend your range to pick up a network, but they are slower.
John
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I also tried it on my MacBook pro. You must turn off your airport in your computer to make it work and in our network, while it improved range in picking up other networks - some nearly 1/2 mile away, it's connection speed is slower by about 30-40% than the built in airport card.
So, my assessment is they can extend your range to pick up a network, but they are slower.
John
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