Techy Stuff Help!

[The Bear]

You can get a Powerline WiFi extender for £40 off Amazon.

Plug the main one in by the router, and the secondary unit into the plug socket in the dead zone room. You get a WiFi signal broadcast from the second unit plus an ethernet port as well for any permanent devices in there.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-WPA4220...iguration-UK/dp/B01LXOZ4EN?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1

 

[leedswolf]

Yes, it's a proper living area.

As long as the room 230V socket is on the same ring main as your router ethernetconnection you can use a power internet adaptor which uses the copper in your electricity cable to send a signal.

 

[Tom Hark]

You can get a Powerline WiFi extender for £40 off Amazon.

Plug the main one in by the router, and the secondary unit into the plug socket in the dead zone room. You get a WiFi signal broadcast from the second unit plus an ethernet port as well for any permanent devices in there.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-WPA4220...iguration-UK/dp/B01LXOZ4EN?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1

Thanks, but the dead zone has a separate power supply (it's a granny flat), so I don't think that will work.

 

[Tom Hark]

Any chance of running a cable? Mesh networks can be flaky and expensive if it's a bit place with thick walls.

That's the last resort I was trying to avoid, really.

 

[Tom Hark]

As long as the room 230V socket is on the same ring main as your router ethernetconnection you can use a power internet adaptor which uses the copper in your electricity cable to send a signal.

Sadly, it's not.

 

[b3h]

Ha ha being a toal dummy how do i tell the difference?

Acestream is a program to watch streams on, you'd know if you had downloaded it. So I guess you would be on a random website, so Flash?

 

[Tom Hark]

Ha ha being a toal dummy how do i tell the difference?

If you're watching it in your browser, it's Flash. Acestream requires a separate player.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

If you're watching it in your browser, it's Flash. Acestream requires a separate player.

Thanks guys, i'm on the browser so i'm Flash.

 

[leedswolf]

Flash.

A-ah!

 

[Deleted Cyber]

Leeds

You're just impossible.

 

[darlowolf64]

Techy stuff or help me...It's all the same I guess.

Over the last week I've noticed that my open pages are "flashing" quite regularly, showing the laptop picture and it is very noticeable, almost like you are taking a screen-grab.

I have run anti-virus scans and Malware and it's all showing clean as well as checking everything is upto date.

Any advice?

 

[t3ch]

what is flashing? Just specific windows or are you saying the entire screen? are you saying there's a quality degradation? apologies I don't quite understand what you mean.

 

[The Bear]

He means the entire screen is flashing like taking a screenshot on a phone. Sounds odd.

 

[Tom Hark]

Graphics card on the blink (no pun intended)?

 

[machin05]

Techy stuff or help me...It's all the same I guess.

Over the last week I've noticed that my open pages are "flashing" quite regularly, showing the laptop picture and it is very noticeable, almost like you are taking a screen-grab.

I have run anti-virus scans and Malware and it's all showing clean as well as checking everything is upto date.

Any advice?

Can you plug it into an external monitor, or your TV via HDMI and see if it's doing the same thing on there?

 

[Alan]

Yep, sounds like a bad connection to me. Depending on the laptop that can be a really simple fix or literally impossible.

 

[t3ch]

if you do indeed mean the entire screen, then a bad connection is certainly possible. generally not going to be fun to troubleshoot on a laptop, but some ribbons are easily accessible and might be checked without much effort.

as mentioned plugging into another output to see if it does the same thing is a good option. one thing you can do that's 1) free, 2) no hassle, 3) good to do anyway, just update your graphics drivers. worst case it doesn't work and you have new drivers.

 

[darlowolf64]

what is flashing? Just specific windows or are you saying the entire screen? are you saying there's a quality degradation? apologies I don't quite understand what you mean.

So I've got one of the wonderful fixture list pictures on my laptop, thats all fine.

When I'm on Google Chrome with the forum open (just as an example) every few minutes, sometimes more often, the screen flashes so that I can see the wonderful fixture list picture then back to what I'm looking at

 

[t3ch]

what are you doing when this happens?

win10 has a feature that does this if your mouse is in the lower right hand corner. it's possible you might just happen to be moving the cursor there when reading something, then taking your hand off the mouse? you should be able to easily replicate this just by dragging your cursor as far right/down in to the corner as possible and leaving it for a sec, which will trigger transparency all the way to the fixtures background. once you move the mouse again, it'll bring all your previously open windows back to the foreground.

or is that not quite sounding right?

 

[darlowolf64]

Nope... It happens when the mouse is central, it happens when I'm not touching the mouse.

I've done a windows update but how do I specifically see if there is an update for the graphics card?