Wireless connectivity on PC boot up - solved for ...
I solved my Wireless connectivity problem. Apologies if this is a well known solution but I switched off BT FON. My wireless connection now works everytime and after a long weekend checking it out, its 100% stable. Don't say this will work for everyone or anyone with wireless connectivity problems but I thought I would re-post to share this result as my original post was moved to the Infinity forum.
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I’m getting wireless connectivity problems between my PC and the BTHub3. After booting the computer I find I have no connectivity at all. The message I receive when attempting to manually connect is
‘The settings saved on this computer for the network do not match the requirements of the network’
This hasn’t always been the case. The issue seems to have started within the last month. Normally connectivity would be made almost instantly. Frustratingly, I can connect to other (unsecured) BT networks in the neighbourhood. Other local networks (secured and unsecured) even appear to have a stronger signal than that from my router, if the number of bars are to be believed.
I am using a Linksys wireless adapter. Settings for security are WPA2 Personal and Encryption type AES.
I have systematically tried
- deleting and recreating profiles
- re-entering passwords
- rebooting the Hub
- rebooting the PC
- changing channels
- changing the BT hub ( new hub, vanilla settings)
Nothing appears to make an impact. If I wait anything between half an hour to an hour eventually everything connects even if I have not touched a single setting. Initially I believed it was a PC/PC adapter issue. But I took a look at the connectivity on my Blackberry and also my Kindle – same issue. So I now believe that something is not set correctly in the router (or unbelievably two routers have failed).
But where to look – Suggestions?
If it supports PPPoE, and has a WAN port, or the facility to map one ot its LAN ports, then you could use it.
It may also be possible to use the device as a wireless access port.
I am moving this to the Infinity board, as you have an Infinity and not an ADSL connection.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.
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Ok so after two days of trying to register on this site, the 50th activation email finally worked...
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You can get that here and it explains it and the settings to choose. I had to break up the link as the forum would not let me post the link. Maybe a mod can fix the links.
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If one SSD fails, you lose the data on both SSDs.
In your case, you lose 128 GB.
Period.
You continue to argue on silly things and you miss the main point:
RAID 0 on SSDs does not make any sense.
RAID 0 (striped volume) has been designed for spinners.
It's a workaround to reduce the access time (a few miliseconds) caused by the mechanical parts of the HDD.
For a SSD (with a few microseconds access time) does not bring any boost.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-10.html
On contrary: shorter lifetime for both SSDs
So (for the last time) the best solution in your case is:
Put the OS on the first SSD (drive C) and the other programs/games on the second one (drive D).
There is no need to kill both SSDs at the same time (for nothing).
And finally, talking about this silly "fast boot" of yours:
5,10,20, or 30 seconds is something irrelevant.
Simply because you get the max speed on an "empty" OS only.
With every installed app (most of them come with bloatware anyway), your boot time is getting longer and longer.
On the other hand, who cares if it takes 10 or 20 seconds?
Only someone with mental problems needs to boot up the computer all day long.
99.99% of the users boot up the computer once or twice per day.
From my point of view, this topic is closed.
You're free to think and do anything you like.
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The way you originally worded it made it sound like you thought RAID 0 only uses the capacity of one drive... I was trying to clear that up by saying it uses the capacity of both drives and ends up being 256GB capacity but I guess you couldn't wrap your head around what I was trying to say.
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I am getting the error:
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