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Here is my situation:

Xfinity router in the basement that serves as a wifi router. This is the only place in the house that the internet can be setup.

When just this router is on: DL speed is 35 Mbps and UP is 12.

However... there is bad connection upstairs since router is so far away. So I have an ASUS RTac68r router on the middle floor. When this router is on is dumbs down the speeds to a horrible 3 DL and 2 UP for both the ASUS connection and xfinity connection.

I tried turning the xfinity wifi off and leaving the ASUS router on... Still get horrible speeds.

I really want that 35 Mbps DL speed to reach around the whole house, what should I do?

So I finally realized PC gaming is the way to go, But I have very little knowledge in what good specs are for the price you pay. So I call upon all you techies out there to help me! Here's the details:

Around $500 price limit

I want Windows 8

I want to be able to smoothly run the following games:

Rust, Skyrim, Cod: World at War and possibly Black ops 1, Counter-Strike: GS

I really want to focus on the "smoothness", right now I try to play CS:GO on my laptop: it's playable but I lag everytime I see an enemy player and die almost everytime. If I could eliminate that I will be very happy. And obviously I want decent graphics so I can enjoy the scenery in games like Skyrim.

Links to prebuilt PCs would be wonderful but if you want to inform me on what specs I should be looking for too that would also be great! I'm not knowledgable enough to build my own pc though. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!

Also be honest with me, if you feel like I'm not going to be happy with the performance from a $500 PC... Let me know!

My friends and I want to throw a "rave concert" on New Year's Eve in one of my friend's old barn. The floor in there right now is thin dirt that would create a huge cloud of dust if the barn was filled with a lot of people dancing... Does anyone have a good idea what we could do to get around this? Like a cheap way of covering the dirt?

Also, I have already searched on Craigslist for cheap old carpet but I couldn't find any listings.

Thanks!

I rented Titanfall from redbox the first day it was released only to find that the servers were down. So I want to rent it again today, but first I want to make sure the servers are actually working...

Here's a problem you can't find an answer to on Google: My xbox 360 disconnects from live at exactly 10:35 pm every single night. I'm usually watching Netflix or Hulu at this time and it gets annoying having to sign back in when I am in the middle of a show.

Anyone got anything? Too lazy to call xbox support...

I am leaving for Ireland and Italy tomorrow, I live in America and I am 18 years old while my girlfriend is a little younger than I am. I always seem to have trouble finding good souvenirs for people when I go on vacation. But I'm going to Italy for Heaven's sake, there has to be something thoughtful/romantic I could bring back! Keep in mind my age and her age (not too expensive/not too seriously romantic). Any help would be great!

I'm 17 year old male and currently weigh 135, 5' 9" is my height. Last summer I remember weighing 150 which means I have lost 15 pounds in one year. This is not good because I was actually trying to gain weight and muscle. I'm a baseball player and I have done a lot of running in the past year. I also did some light self-motivated work outs of my upper body and core occasionally throughout the year. (I would say 3-4 times a week) I would normally finish the workouts with Whey Protein Shakes. In the summers I normally skip breakfast because I sleep in. And before baseball season started I had a job and would sometimes skip eating a healthy dinner because I got home so late. But NORMALLY throughout the past year I would have 3 meals a day. Recently I have concluded that I have a loss of appetitie. McDonalds and other fast food joints no longer interest me and actually disgust me. so I rarely eat fast food anymore. last summer we traveled alot for baseball so i remember eating alot of fast food. Also I have a pretty sedentary lifestyle, as I just had surgery on my shoulder. For the past 2 weeks I've been mainly just laying in bed watching Netflix. I weighed in at 135 before surgery, and 2 weeks later, after eating and doing barely any activity all day, I still weigh 135.

So the obvious answer is to make sure I have those 3 core meals a day. But is that really going to help gain back the 15 pounds that I lost? Any advice I would greatly appreciate!

My goal in life is to improve the standard way of living through improving technology itself. I want to improve the technology in home appliances such as washing machines, fridges, sinks, stoves, etc. i watch alot of "future technology" concepts on youtube and im very interested in creating stuff like that.

Heres some concepts that i'm looking into: (this should help you guys decide which major/degree i need)

Mirrors that display news and information while also acting as a mirror

Holographic devices

Windows that can display certain artificial weather

I'm also thinking of a central home brain (similiar to the iron man's computer in iron 1 & 2) that can be accessed simply by speaking its name or passphrase and then could literally turn on, run, start up anything within the house.

So, what college is best for this and what should i major in? I live in Indiana and going to a school here would be alot cheaper. Any advice, information on this topic would also be greatly appreciated!

(i know some of these ideas are pretty crazy but they are just concepts)

Me and my friends were chilling on a deck out on a lake gazing at stars. We spotted out the big dipper and orion's belt. Then all of a sudden the top star in orion's belt started slowly moving towards the right side of the sky. At this time we were all freaking out and we realized it couldn't be a shooting star because it was moving extremely slow. It was also not a plane because we have spotted planes earlier before and it looked nothing similiar. Then all of a sudden it dissapeared. I literally just witnessed the destruction of a star. What could this be. Theoretically if it wasnt a plane or a shooting star, could there be an explaination for this? Also some other notes: the star that im talking about was sitting in the same spot in the sky for a while since we noticed it. It may hve not been orion's belt but it was 3 stars in a row and the top star did move and dissappear.

I got an Asus K53U laptop during December and right when I started using it, it ran abnormally slow for a brand new computer. I would make the assumption that it is probably running slower now than what it was before (3 months earlier). I have never done anything to try to speed it up, but now I am getting impatient and aggravated at the speed of the computer, especially since its fairly new and was running slow at a brand new condition. I have Norton Security Suite which says everything is protected and there are no viruses.

Some specs are:

AMD E-350 Processor

1.60 GHz

3.6 usuable RAM

64-bit OS

I am currently trying to download a windows update called windows 7 service pack 1, but it will not download for some reason. I remember reading somewhere that someone with this same computer could not download the SP1 either.

What do I do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a software/program that lets you take certain instruments or vocals out of a song? I need to take the guitar and vocals out of a led zeppelin song to study and hear the drumming better.

For my graduation present, i get to go to any reasonably priced country in the world. Im part italian and really appreciate the ancient roman culture, Renaissance era, and italian food. So what would be the best cities in italy to visit for an 18 year old boy with his parents? I will be visiting more than one city. If anyone has been to italy i would greatly appreciate any ones advice or suggestions, thanks!

I have a dodge chrysler minivan with multiple power outlets. The power conventer can take up to 350 watts with a 700 peak and 110v outlets, but its been used many times for a couple years now. The ps3 slim requires Only 250 watts and 100v i believe. When i try to turn on the ps3 system it beeps and then immediatly shuts off. Also the car isnt that old but its not new.

I'm selling something on eBay, and the reserve price is $70.99. The bid right now is exactly 70.99, so are the bidders able to see that they have hit the reserve price?

They were all scheduled to premiere tonight starting at 8.. and my local fox channel (fort wayne, IN) is showing a movie called glory? Why is this happening?

Obviously it comes out Tuesday for the disc but does anyone know when it will be able to be downloaded from the Marketplace? If its on tuesday.. does anyone know what time?

I might be adding a line onto my verizon account to get the iphone 4. Once i go into the store, pay for it, and sign up for the $30 data plan...how would I switch the iphone 4 AND the data plan on to my original phone number?

I don't really care about hard drive or anything all I want is a Desktop Computer (Tower only) that has wireless internet and a HDMI output.

Is there any for under $400?

And with the HDMI output would I need a better graphics card?

I am already on a 2 year contract and want to get the iphone when it comes out. But i want the 2 year contract price for $199. So i have resolved that the only way to do this is add a new line but i dont know much about that so can someone tell me the benefits and disadvantages to doing this? will i be able to keep my original number somehow?