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Hi,

I hate consumer access points and routers, they always seam to be plagued with problems. Once it is set up you shouldn't ever have to loggin, reboot, or generally fiddle with the thing to try and make it work again. Well thats my opinion anyway. Then you have some acces points not agreeing with some computers and you just get occasional disconnects.

Do the 'comercial grade' brandnames like cisco also suffer from these problems? I've heard from one source that they don't.

Can anybody recomend good quality wireless access points and seperate routers?

Thanks

Yep, though my maestro card doesn't have an issue number

I am asking specifically about Maestro branded cards(ie: vs Visa, Mastercard, Switch). Has anybody successfully made payments to play.com with one?
 

 I am trying to ascertain if this a problem with my individual card so I can ask my bank for a new one.
 

 Thanks you

Bit of a long shot but has anybody else successfully used a maestro card with the AA or play.com?

Thanks, Play.com says they accept Maestro. I think they are exclusivly debit cards too

Hello there,

Quick question, I got a new Maestro debit/service card recently, but I'm having problems with it. Works fine in an ATM (if thats anyway related to the maestro part of the card) but I tried buying from play.com and theAA over the internet/phone and it wouldnt work with either. Got card rejected and invalid number (but im certain I put in the right number). It worked with paypal though.

Do some cards give problems? Phoned the bank and the guy said he can't see any problems and to try purchasing in the shop... Otherwise phone back and they will send a new one.

Thanks for all the input

Hello there

Is it legal to resell games?
Steam games
PC Games
Console games /Xbox 360, Wii

I know the likes of Valve don't make it easy for PC games.

Any ideas on this topic?

Is quicktime and realplayer necessary? I have someones new computer here which they asked me to 'turn on' and see everyhting is alright for christmas.

I hate having to install quicktime and realplayer. They are both intrusive and hit startup performance I think.

Are they really necessary? I can't think of any site that requires realplayer at the moment, could I get away with not installing it?

Should I remove their 3 month trial period of Norton and install AVG?

OpenOffce.org was already installed on it I was glad to see.

What do you put on a new PC for those who know nothing about PCs?

Well hope there isn't to much damage. But I also would have expected their network to have more reseliance. Imagine the millions of steam games sold that nobody can play. What are they doing with all that money?

I can't wait to try this out
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=922&

yep, thanks I'll have to try it out

When they come to your house there are two paired wires. A third wire is added for the ringer at your master socket, so that makes one unpared wire running around your house. I have read it can pick up intererence easily. I'm wondering if an unpared wire is more likely to cause inteference in other wires next to it.

oh yea lol

edit: though it would be cheaper if I could just use the spare wires in the Cat5 cable if it didn't cause problems

So i could run a telephone extension down the same cat5 cable without the unpaired ringwire causing interference?