Will NAS work better than USB?

I have an Extreme (non gigabit) with a USB drive plugged in. I constantly lose connection between the drive and my Macbooks. I am thinking about using a NAS drive connected directly to the Extreme instead. Before I go and spend a heap of money I would like to know what you guys think. Will this be more reliable?

I would doubt it. If the wireless link is unreliable it doesn't matter how the drive is connected to the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS).

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Will this setup work better than my iMac?

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Go to the CS5 Benchmark http://ppbm5.com/ and review the results
To allow for future expansion (more ram and added hard drives) my PERSONAL choice would be a larger power supply
The computer I built is described in http://forums.adobe.com/thread/652694 - with an 850w power supply

Why does my $40 wireless phone work better than my airport?

I have a $40 wireless phone... ge... 2.4ghz... that works in any room in my home.
I have an $200 airport that doesn't work more than 10 feet away...
What is the difference that makes one work so much better than the other?
Are they completely differenct technologies, and if so, why wouldn't apple use the better one?
Don't get me wrong, I love apple and I love the airport when I am in the same room with it, but just don't understand why it can't work through a wall.
agp g4 1 ghz - titanium powerbook - airport Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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There are several things that affect wireless technology all through the spectrum of Bluetooth, LAN's, WAN's
Here is a site that covers all aspects of the technology. This should answer any questions you have.
http://wireless.utk.edu/overview.html
Don

One USB port works better than the other

I have a brand new 2011 MBP i5. I just bought a Microsoft USB mouse and noticed that it works significantly better when plugged into one of the usb ports verses the other. Any idea on if this is a peripheral problem or a MBP hardware problem? Thanks!

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Host Controller Location:          Built-in USB
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PCI Revision ID:          0x0005
PCI Vendor ID:          0x8086
Bus Number:          0xfd
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Product ID:          0x2513
Vendor ID:          0x0424 (SMSC)
Version:           b.b3
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Location ID:          0xfd100000 / 2
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          2
Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0:
Product ID:          0x0745
Vendor ID:          0x045e (Microsoft Corporation)
Version:           6.34
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Manufacturer:          Microsoft
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Current Required (mA):          100
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Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version:           0.16
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Current Required (mA):          100

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An 867MHz CPU should work just fine.
A 933MHz will work slightly better. If you buy it through eBay, do not buy the one from Hong Kong for $9.99. That is the overclocked 733MHz that lacks the L3 cache. Instead, look for one where the seller specifically states that it has the L3 cache or displays a screen shot shewing the L3 cache - usually on the 'About this Mac' panel.
A dual 1GHz is much faster than both, although it's hard to find - and runs about $100 as opposed to less than $50 for the 933MHz. (I just missed one). Be sure to get the dual CPU heatsink with its little "I'm hot" decal; (they run distinctly hotter than the single processors).
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Printer will only work connected with USB direct to computer

A few weeks ago I was printing a long document. In the middle of it, it went on hold. Since then I cannot print wireless with either of my computers. If I plug the USB direct from the printer to the computer the printer will work. I cannot print wireless. Do I need a new Airport?

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+Do I need a new Airport?+
Try a simple reset of the printing system as follows:
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Not to try a LV2013 app and see if a control with key focus will change value with a two-finger swipe (mouse scroll).
Disclaimer: I am not a Microsoft employee, but I have done work for them.

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I'm trying to use the USB-6009 through Ethernet with a USB over IP adapter (http://www.startech.com/Networking-IO/USB-PS2/10-100-1000-Mbps-Gigabit-1-Port-USB-over-IP-Device-Ser... but NI Max doen't find the device. It does it if it is directly connected through the USB port. You mention a "USB-to-Ethernet adapter for UDP" that you are using. Have you had any success with it? If yes, please, could you recommend me which device you used?
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Why does my PS work better than my Lightroom 5 exporting jpegs from raw files?

So,
I'm editing some raw files with Lightroom 5
but when I export the jpg file, the result is terrible, it looks washed out, loses contrast, noise levels are higher than the edited file on suite
However, if I do the same thing using camera raw through PsCS6, the exported jpg is perfect. Any reason for that to happen?
've been reading a lot about color spaces, and I don't think is the case, since the same doesn't happen with photoshop.
Also, it might be worth mentioning I'm exporting B&W images
Thanks!

ok
just to illustrate the problem a little better, here's the actual difference
this is what I have in Lightroom after editing:
and here's what I get after exporting

ACR 3.7 works better than 4.2 with RAW NEF - Why?

I've got CS3 with ACR 4.2 on my Mac. When I open RAW camera files in ACR 4.2 they end up desaturated. The reds in particular have mostly disappeared, but all the colors are annoyingly pale and wan. I then have to punch up the saturation, and often go into Camera Calibration to reinstate colors that have gone.
If I take the same images to my PC and open in CS2 via ACR3.7, the images have proper color saturation. I've checked the preference settings and they don't seem to be any different. And no, I'm not using the NEF plug-in on CS2 (which isn't available for CS3).
So why do my images end up so much better via 3.7 than via 4.2? Anyone got a theory? Is it because the default camera calibration in 4.2 is narrower than 3.7? I'm shooting with a Nikon D80 and a D200.

Tony, Tony, Tony
 
 Got your four images.
 
 First, there's the issue of the one you
erroneously claim to have converted in ACR 3.7 on your PC, especially since the metadata reveals it to be a NIKON SOFTWARE conversion and it has a NIKON profile embedded (Nikon sRGB 4.0.0.3001) as does the one specifically named Nikon View NX.JPG, yet the ones converted in ACR have sRGB IEC61966-2.1. embedded.
 
 The truth is that that image was NOT converted in ACR 3.7 at all.
 
 There can only be two reasons for that egregious error:
 
 1. you are being disingenuous, which I do not want to believe; or
 
 
2. you had the Nikon plug-in installed on your PC, which overrides ACR, and you were using the Nikon plug-in all the time without realizing it. Even though you thought you were using ACR, you were using the Nikon software all the time in Photoshop CS2.
 
 That has happened to many, many Nikon users. The Nikon plug-in sort of looks like ACR with a "simplified" interface, as users have described it. Nikon software installs that plug-in behind your back.
 
 In any event, without the RAW image as I've been suggesting from the beginning, all I can tell you is that your images look a lot more natural to me in the ACR conversion, and the oversaturated two developed in Nikon View NX (again no Raw Converter metadata) are within the parameters I would expect.
 
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 In short, Tony, you are NOT seeing a difference between two different versions of ACR (as the title of this thread suggests) but ONLY between "the over-saturated, over-contrasty and over-sharpened images that appeal to most amateurs generated by the camera manufacturer's software", as I've been saying all along, and ACR's more natural rendition. Noise is also hidden by compressing the shadows so you don't see much of the noise inherent in the image.
 
 Adobe Camera Raw, ACR, on the other hand, comes with default settings designed to give you the most detail possible (even if this sometimes means revealing some of the noise hidden by the camera manufacturers in their RAW conversion software), as well as the most natural images.
 
 That being said, you can calibrate your camera to ACR and come up with your own settings to produce exactly what you want, including the JPEG-look of the camera manufacturer, and save that as your profile.
 
 The key is to learn how to use ACR properly and to calibrate your camera to ACR.
 
 
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 The ACR defaults are nothing more than a suggested starting point.
 
 The color temperature won't necessarily match either.

Does light room work better than Photoshop for raw conversion

What is the difference between photoshop and lightroom conversion from raw camera files. It seems that lightroom is putting my images in more of a middle of the road type of post production, where photoshop tends to be all over the place. As a professional photographer it is good to have a style, but do you think that this middle of the road approach will end up getting us all to conform to a single style rather than being individuals? If I change settings and take control then more images fall out of the bell curve and don't look as nice. http://www.blue2green.com here are some sample images. I am curious if anyone else is experiencing the same concerns

What Geoff said is accurate. I used to use Adobe Bridge/Photoshop ACR for camera RAW processing. But since LR has the same engine I use LR much more these days. And most times I don't even go into PhotoShop with my images and just print from LR -- LR is very powerful, especially since the release of LR4 and I find that I rarely need to use an outside editor like PhotoShop or NIK and OnOne plugins to do any post processing.

Comic Life Whine Fix - Works Better Than Photobooth?

Just curious about something. The Photobooth whine fix never really worked for me. As soon as I quit it, the whine came back. But Comic Life... I would open that and quit it - and the whine disappeared forever (well, at least until I open iChat). However, I did note with this fix, the processor usage stayed at zero (if I wasn't doing anything).
I'm just curious if others have had the same effect with Photobooth. I've heard people say that a lot of the other fixes were no good because they upped processor usage.
However, the Comic Life fix seems to not suffer from this problem.
Thoughts?

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If you have an ipad2 with 3g, would a mobile wi-fi device work better than 3g?

Would it make more sense to purchase a mobile wi-fi device instead of activating the "built-in" verizon or at&t 3g component since so many people are experiencing problems? The wi-fi component of my IPAD2 works perfectly....I have not activated the Verizon 3g component.

I bought the ATT 3G iPad 1. I use wifi all the time and wanted the 3G for those rare times that I'm on vacation without wifi or am abroad. I did activate ATT for one month to be sure it worked - it did. Then I deactivated it; haven't reactivated it since. Since I don't have a smartphone, and I didn't want to get a long term plan with a mifi unit, I feel that my ATT iPad is right for me.
If you see no possibility of ever using 3G, then get the wifi iPad. If you plan to get a mifi (is this what you mean by "mobile wi-fi device"?) then you won't need a 3G iPad.

Do ATI Display adapters work better than NVIDIA?

hi all,
this is a question that has been pointed to in this topic:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b79682
As long as so many users got problems with their fullscreen preview on a secondary monitor at nvidia cards or trouble with their latest drivers I wondered, if there a less problems with ATI cards.
Does anyone uses such a display adapter and can tell us more about this?
spreeni

The jury is still out over here. I used 2 different ATI cards over the course of 6+ years with very few problems, and now I have a top-end (?) Nvidia card - the GTX 280. I've had some minor issues with a few apps, but I can't say if the Nvidia card is involved, or if it's just Vista, 64-bit, or a whole host of other changes. Time will tell.
One thing Nvidia has all over ATI is the driver update process. It is completely painless. I rarely, if ever, updated my ATI drivers because the update process was so painful and time-consuming. Uninstall existing driver. Reboot. Install new driver. Reboot. Put your desktop back together like Humpty Dumpty after the update.
With Nvidia, I launch the installer, wait for it to finish, reboot, and I'm done. No muss, no fuss.

My old iPhone works better than 3G with Exchange!

So my battery dies after about 4 hours with Exchange Server and Push enabled.
I configured my old, 1st gen iPhone with exchange and push.
I configured my new, 3G iPhone with exchange and push.
Sitting them side by side, I noticed something peculiar:
The 3G iPhone was checking for mail about once every 15 seconds. The old iPhone didn't! When I sent mail to myself (from another account to Exchange), both phones got it at the same time.
What gives? They're both running on the same version 2.0.1.
No wonder my iPhone dies so fast, it's checking 4 times a minute!
Help!
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Update for those interested:
I spent roughly 2 hours on the phone with support - which, by the way, was a very nice experience. After going through a variety of different options, it turns out that I simply had a defective phone. It should never be checking with Exchange Server every 10 seconds. The tech, Neil (sp), was very nice and setup an appointment at my nearby Apple store and that was it. Just went there and exchanged it - everything works perfectly now.
Thanks Neil.
Sajji

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