Same reason why you can only do ethernet up to 325 feet or so. The signal gets weaker the farther it goes along the wire. There is a certain amount of resistance.

Being an ex renter with comcast, one reason why I bought my own was that when mine went out (as they frequently did after the first one failed) it would take them days sometimes to get me a replacement. I waited 4 days for them to "next day ship" me a replacement.

No, they won't. At least they never did for me. In fact when mine went bust after a few years they sent me an exact replacement for it. Even though they had newer models available. I got sick of their cheap crap and just went out and bought my own higher end one. Then a month later bought another to keep on my…

I talked to my boss about the constant 60-70 hour work weeks I've been having to do for months now. He just looked at me and pretty much said "tough. Work harder and try to get caught up" as he was getting ready to take off early for the afternoon. Hence why I'm interviewing with some other companies this week and…

I haven't tried the 30 dollar device yet, but moving mine to the top of my TV did make some difference. I hooked it up this past weekend to keep the kids busy during thanks giving and boy was that thing a hit. Not only with the kids but with the parents as well, their kids were kept busy after the meal, and most of…

The car advice may not work. A common tactic in our area is these car lots will sell to each other at what they bought the car at so they don't have anything sitting on the lot for more than a week or 2. And some of them that own multiple lots will just shuffle the cars around from week to week so people don't think…

Standalone, probably VMWare player or VirtualBox. If you are going to run a few networked VMMachines, VMWare Workstation, the network management is second to none.

People still use hotmail?

I ask in all seriousness, there are still people that use hotmail for something other than spam dumping boxes? I gave up on it years ago.

Kinda limited on how many you can upload each month unless you pay the yearly 24.95 fee. Still not bad though.

I think VMWare Player is free. I don't use it so I don't know that much about it. I know VMWare ESX server is free, but that might be more then you want to get into. I use VMWare workstation to set up virtual labs at home to try things out on and study for certifications with. I've even got mine set up so all the…

I love OpenDNS. I use it on my DD-WRT router at home and haven't had a single issue. I use the basic service for filtering webpages and typo correction. I tried google for a while and noticed a bit of a lag when finding my pages. And I'm not sure I want google to know that much about whats going on in my house.

I got into the testing for this a few weeks ago and have been really enjoying it so far. Though I don't use the facebook or twitter app. And why do people keep complaining about having to have a Gold member ship? If you want to play online, then get it. If you want to only play the single player then don't. …