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Fairfield Inn & Suites Laramie Wyoming – Hotel Internet Review

Monday, 2015.09.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I travel frequently for business and as such good internet access is a top priority. For my work, a fast and reliable internet connection is absolutely essential. As such, I make sure to test the connection each time I stay at a hotel and make notes for future reference. Here are the results from my recent stay in Laramie Wyoming at Fairfield Inn & Suites: Ping 18ms Download speed: 1.04Mbps Upload speed: 1.07Mbps Ping times were good. However, for this day and

Pantum 2502W, 2500W and P2200 driver downloads

Monday, 2015.09.21 J.D. H. 42 comments

Q. Can you help me find a driver that works for my Pantum printer? I do not have the driver DVD and their site is down 🙁 A. Here is the direct download link for Pantum printers: 🙂 dl Mac [download id=”10508″ format=”1″], dl Windows [download id=”10510″ format=”1″] Last updated [date format=”l F jS\\, Y”] There are mirror links (above) if the Pantum site is down, otherwise here are additional links to the Pantum driver site: Pantum P2200-P2500 Windows Driver ZIP Microsoft

Wifi bridge from old house to new house

Tuesday, 2015.08.25 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Recently I setup a wifi bridge between our old house and our new house. This setup is surprisingly difficult since there is considerable foliage in between the two houses. Also, once the signal gets to the new house I wanted to rebroadcast it so we had nice full home coverage. Thankfully, TP-Link has some very nice (and inexpensive) wireless access point/bridges available. Two of them made quick work of the problem and now we are enjoying our old internet at

AT&T Unite Pro admin password login [SOLVED]

Wednesday, 2015.04.01 J.D. H. Leave a comment

If you are trying to access the settings page on an AT&T Unite Pro wifi hotspot, you may need the following default password: attadmin 🙂 Top Search Terms:at (247)att unite pro admin (62)att unite att admin (54)att unite pro admin login (44)attunite admin login (29)attunite admin page (26)attunite/login (20)att unite pro login (18)attunite homepage (10)attunitepro (10)

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Fix Dell XPS 13 5GHz wifi speed issues [SOLVED]

Saturday, 2015.03.14 J.D. H. 2 comments

When I first connected my Dell XPS 13 to my ASUS router I was quite impressed by the 893Mbps connection speed. However, a few days later and I could not even see the 5GHz wifi network. 🙁 I was stuck at 144Mbps and not loving it. After experimenting with the drivers, I determined that an automatic driver update had effectively disabled the 5GHz capability of the internal wifi card and that by reverting to the original (stock) Windows 8.1 driver

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Speed test on Royal Caribbean

Sunday, 2014.12.07 J.D. H. Leave a comment

This speed test result is from December 2014 on Royal Caribbean, Freedom of the Seas cruise ship. The speeds are fairly terrible but the connection is solid. So, reading the news and uploading photos is doable as long as you are patient. Also, Royal Caribbean now offers two unlimited internet plans for cruisers. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1073657581 Top Search Terms:speed restriction on royalcarribbean (1)speed restrictions royal caribbean (1)speedtest on cruise ships (1)

We’re sorry, but you are attempting this transaction during a restricted time period set by your wireless account

Sunday, 2014.11.02 J.D. H. 2 comments

If you get an error message like this: We’re sorry, but you are attempting this transaction during a restricted time period set by your wireless account owner. http://redirect.ac.sl.attcompute.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi Then my suggestion is to restart your phone or reboot your wifi hotspot. That will likely resolve the issue for you 🙂 Top Search Terms:http://redirect.ac.sl.attcompute.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi (6)redirect.ac.sl.attcompute.com (3)http://redirect.ac.sl.attcompute.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?msg=2 (2)we're sorry, but your message could not be delivered because you are in a restricted time period set by your wireless account owner. (2)redirect.ac.sl.attcompute.com/ (2)data

Unknown network adapter PCI\VEN_168 Windows 8 [SOLVED]

Sunday, 2014.08.10 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Q. I have a Network adapter with device ID PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0036&SUBSYS_020E1028&REV_01 and I cannot find the correct driver for my Dell laptop with Windows 8.1 A. That is a Dell Wireless 1707 wifi adapter. You can find the appropriate driver for Windows 8.1 here: (dl link) Top Search Terms:pci\ven_168c (47)pci\ven_168 (12)pci ven_168c (5)pci/ven_168 (5)ven_168 (5)pci ven_168 (2)ven_168c (2)dell ven_168 (1)dell ven168c (1)dell 1707 wifi adapter not working (1)