Recent content by chazdraves

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    Wii U Storage Questions...

    Again, even the HDD's are capable of higher speeds than USB 2.0 can support. It's one of those deals where it really doesn't matter what you plug in; it's going to be capped at about 30MB/s no matter what the device *should* be capable of. The upside is that you don't have to spend the extra...
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    Wii U Storage Questions...

    Yeah, but the only way to use the SD card for actual storage on the Wii U is through a USB adapter thus negating the gains... Unfortunately, they don't allow saving/downloading to the SD card without using it through an adapter. Even still, I'm perfectly happy with the read times off the disc...
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    Wii U Storage Questions...

    I'm going to answer my own question in hopes that it might help someone else in the future. Firstly, this has a lot of extensive info on the Wii U which may be relevant: http://gengame.net/2012/07/everything-we-know-about-wii-u/#5 Here they claim that read speeds on the Wii U optical drive is...
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    Wii U Storage Questions...

    Awesome! Forgive my ineptness. What happens if your system goes on the fritz and you have to get a new one... Can you de-register the first console and link your account to a new console and re-download? Also, any thoughts on the speed of an external drive and how that may affect performance...
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    Wii U Storage Questions...

    Well, we made the decision to pick up a Basic Wii U the other day (Deluxes, of course, were long gone). Overall, it seems a nifty device and we've been enjoying it. The inevitable question, however, is storage. On PC, I always prefer to buy games via Steam and love having them available "Through...
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    Thanks for the advice, all; we're going to give Boost a chance. EDIT: I could be wrong, but I think most of their phones are now CDMA...? - Chaz
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    Yeah, I've pondered that as well. I kid you not, the phones we had showed they were off network roughly 70% of the time and yet they always had reception when we pulled them out to check them. We missed so many calls and then called it quits and went to Verizon Prepaid (which got old because of...
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    Well, we've had most of the services in the past with mixed results. We used to have Virgin but the signal strength in the town we lived in then was such that our phones would be off-network and not ring if they were in our pockets which makes me hesitant to go back to Virgin despite an...
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    I guess the bulk of the question is: what (besides the ETF money) would I lose by switching to Straight Talk with our existing phones that would convince me to stay with ATT? - Chaz
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    Yes, roughly to the tune of $500 even, but it looks like it would still save us around $800 over the next two years of school. - Chaz
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    So, if I'm reading this right, we can buy an AT&T SIM for each of our phones, cancel our AT&T contracts, buy a $45 card and be on the exact same network through a different provider with unlimited everything for $70/month less than we're paying now? I read about some issues with picture...
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    Well, we'd like unlimited minutes and texts as these are our only phone lines. We'd like to stay in that $50-$60/line range and have 1-2GB per line for data depending on phones. If we stick with our phones, I'd like to have the data; otherwise, we could probably live without more than a little...
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    Money's getting tight for contract - where to go?

    Well, long-short is that we signed up for our first smartphones under AT&T's wings back in February and then I decided to go to college and leave a good-paying job behind in hopes of an even better future. We're locked into a contract and have a WP7 Samsung Focus S and a Samsung GSII which we...
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    SOLVED - Belkin N600 & Motorola SB6121 - Still slow...?

    Just wanted to close this thread out. The technician stopped by yesterday and gave everything a once-over. Turns out the inbound signal was a little hot, but that wasn't causing our problems. Apparently Mediacom in this area is in the process of switching over to DOCSIS 3.0 and they've been...
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    SOLVED - Belkin N600 & Motorola SB6121 - Still slow...?

    Very good question. The modem/router are located behind a shelf unit that isn't particularly convenient to access for that purpose. I suppose that would pretty much rule out the cause though, eh? The other problem is that these issues occur across multiple devices without an ethernet port...