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What more could a city do? In an effort to woo a Google high-speed internet project, the Kansas capital of Topeka last year changed its name to Google, Kansas, for a month. Like, actually changed it. By a Link Removed due to 404 Error. Apparently that wasn't enough. The search giant on...

An ostrich stolen from a farm in Romania showed homing pigeon skills after managing to escape from her captors to run all the way home at 40mph. The big flightless birds, native to Africa, are famous for their ability to run at high speeds but are not so well known for their homing...

Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 leverages both PC hardware and Windows 7 to provide a speedier and more colorful experience. Link Removed

Internet Explorer 9 provides the best web experience for Windows. Here are the top reasons why you should get it today. ➀ It's all-around fast — hardware-accelerated text, video, and graphics speed up performance and make websites perform like programs that are installed on your computer...

A U.S. man high on methamphetamine drove with his wife on the hood of their minivan for more than 40 miles, hitting speeds of 100 mph, according to police. The woman climbed onto the hood early on Saturday morning, outside the couple's home in Manteca, California, because she wanted to keep...

New 510 SSD series takes advantage of high-speed SATA bus interfaces on new Intel Core platforms Computerworld - Link Removed a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that are based on the serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 specification, which doubles I/O throughput compared to previous generation SSDs...

I have my laptop win7 using the my new N Router. When i look at my connection speed, it is 130 Mbps. Before I connected the N Router my connection speed was 54 Mbps Is this normal or is something amiss? My Verizon Router is a G and I had the Geeks come to the house and hook up the router...

Full steam ahead! Cyclone Power Technologies founder Harry Schoell and Chuk Williams, head of the U.S. Land Steam Record Team, stand in front of a car designed to set a land speed record for steam-powered vehicles. We usually think of steam powering things such as old-fashioned...

Hi I was wondering if it would be practical to run a wired connection from my router to my wifes lap top in the kitchen. It's on wireless now but she never moves it from it's present location. It is always connected at half the speed that my direct connection is and stops working...

If you are still trying to squeeze more speed and performance out of Windows 7, here is a tip that will accelerate the display of menu items. Link Removed

Solid-state drives are wicked fast. SSDs start and shut down fast, and they perform read operations (especially random reads) at speeds that blow the doors off conventional hard drives. In the first installment of this series, I gathered the numbers to show just how much faster you can expect an...

Does a solid-state drive make a difference in the performance of Windows 7? In a word: Yes. I’ve been measuring startup times and disk reads on three Windows 7 PCs to see just how fast they really are. The results are impressive. More...

Hi, Well, when I copy files on my external HDD, it's going fast, until the 1st file is done, after the 1st file, it doesn't really freeze, but stops for like 4-6 secs, and then it suddenly moves on again, with low transfer speed which increases. This happens for each file e.g. Copying...

Hi guys, I have a problem with my wireless connection on my desktop PC. I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed and a 10/10Mcit connection. The problem is that the connection only works at about 20% of its capabilities (about 2Mbit). I had a linksys internal WiFi card installed (with that...

This morning I woke up to find that I had a 10Gb/s internet connection, I only noticed because my 3GB Call of duty: Black OPs and a torrent download of 5GB Dowloaded in <1minute, then 5 hours later I get a phone call from Testra Our ISP, finding out why we had been downloading so much in so much...

I am running Windows 7 (x64) for I have that stupid RED X on my wireless connection; however, I am able to get on the internet. It's slow but I can get on. I tried everything on the web. I unistalled all my drivers, I system restore, and I did a lot of run as admin and I set have that RED X on...

Folks, Few weeks back, the mobo on my HP xw8200 blew up. Nothing else was wrong, but when ordering the "new" mobo for it, I also got more correct RAM and two 3.6GHz Xeon CPUs. Got the guts back into the pc and fired it up. I almost cried when I saw the Windows 7 logo appear. AWESOME!!! Now...

Hi, I have been working on an Emachines E627 w/Win7 and have noticed my wireless speeds around around 10x slower than on dell laptop running XP. I have verified the slower speed using speedtest.net, also I have updated the driver for Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter and the Microsoft...

Hello, ive used these forums before for searching stuff but this is my first post. I am having problems with internet connectivity. the internet will be going fast as usual and download 700-800kbps then out of nowhere drop to 2-3 kbps and web pages will barely load and connection timeout error...

Howdy gang, I'm trying to transfer files over my LAN between two 2 computers (both connected through Ethernet) but the speed is very slow. The top speed is : 3MBps Desktop: Windows 7, wired Laptop: Windows 7, wired Modem/Router: Aztech DSL605EW I've tried a couple of things already: 1...