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To update this thread: I have recently upgraded to the fibre network which I mentioned in earlier posts and found exactly the same problems as before. I took all the advice given earlier in relation...

Apologies, I seem to have sent two reports in my last post. The first was my original report, the second of the two, at the bottom, is the "fresh report" as of this morning.

With regards to...

Thank you. Here is a recent wireless_info text.
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In relation to traffic on channel, would that not also affect Windows performance as well? I know very little about wireless networking so a...

Hello again. problem has reappeared this morning. Wifi worked fine initially but then it slowed down for no obvious reason. Here is the present content of iwlwifi if that is of any help.

Hi thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I am only visiting this house and do not want to start changing their router settings. I had already set IPv6 to ignore to little effect. I will try the...

here is the result of the Wireless info script256971

Sorry should have mentioned I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and have an Intel(R) Centrino(R) -n 2230 wireless card

Hi I'm visiting my daughter who recently had a fibre network/ router installed. It's working fine for window users including myself with my dual booting laptop. The problem is that when I try to use...

Many thanks for your reply. I am still not 100% clear on the distinction between upgrade and dist-upgrade but that does appear to be what the update manager does.

I have been meaning to ask this question for a long time now. I usually use the terminal... apt-get update&apt-get upgrade command to check for updates every morning. Some times, as this morning,...

This is what I thought was the case. I will try the cryogenic approach as a final straw.

Thanks for all you help.

This is as much information as I can find about the external hard drive: Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive.

I have...

Again many thanks, your explanation is perfectly clear and will be very useful for this task and for my further studies of ubuntu terminal.

If your career is not in education at the moment you...

many thanks, that worked perfectly. I have been storing my photos on an external hard drive and then deleting the originals from my laptop over 6 years. Now the hard drive beeps a few times but won't...

Hi,

I want to search through hard drives from old laptops for jpg files. I can connect the hard drives through a usb port and look through each folder for the files but it can be a tedious...

The problem was that the latest package in Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager is 2.4.

I have been trying to install the latest gimp help with little sucess until this morning. I downloaded gimp-help-2.6.0-html-en.tar.bz2 and extracted gimp-help-2. In this was an "install" text file...

I have solved this problem. I was plugging in the dongle too soon after the desktop appeared. If I wait a little while (1 minute or maybe less) and then plug it in it works perfectly.

Why this is...

I am having a problem when I connect a recently bought usb mobile broadband dongle.

When I plug in the device the led flashes once or twice but then nothing happens i.e. it does not connect to the...

Yes it is:)

Thanks again.

I have found the solution and everything is working normally again.

I clicked on advanced tab in Thunderbird preferences and then edit config. Set disableipv6 to true as with Firefox and...

Thanks for the reply. The problem is not with the server I can connect through Windows without any delay.

I have finally upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 and getting used to the new setup. One problem which I now have is that Thunderbird email is taking up to 30 seconds to connect to the server. I may have had a...

If you enter -v after ssh i.e. ssh -v user@address or even ssh -v -v user@address it may show where the problem is. (-v stands for verbose and helps in debugging.

Have you configured the...

Hi,

3 days and no reply? Can't answer your query specifically but maybe move it back to top of posts for someone who can.

I recently set up ssh to a remote imac which runs on Darwin Linux so...