Rick's Daily Tips

Q&A: Can I share my Internet connection with a nearby building?

Posted on November 5, 2023

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Question from James: My wife has accepted an offer from her employer to work remote from home.

She will be setting up her office in a small 12′ x 15′ detached guest cottage that’s approximately 75 feet from our house.

Our cable modem and router are in our living room.

Since the cottage is separate from our living space we do not have the ability to just run a long Ethernet cable and phone cable from the router to that space.

The cottage gets a very weak Wi-Fi signal from our router but she has to have a wired Ethernet connection in order to use the devices she has.

What essentially I’m asking is should she set up her own internet service in that room and have the ISP just hardwire the space? [Read more…]

Q&A: What is overclocking (and can I do it to my laptop)?

Posted on November 3, 2023

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Question from Brenda: I heard a couple of kids talking about overclocking their computers to make them run faster.

What exactly do they mean by overclocking? And it that something that I can do to speed up my HP laptop?

It’s a pretty slow machine and I’d love to overclock it if you think it’s would really help.

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Scam alert: Beware this dangerous iCloud related phishing scam

Posted on November 3, 2023

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Well, the hackers and scammers of the world are once again targeting unsuspecting Apple customers.

This latest Apple-related scam is a variation of this recurring scam in which the scammers call you from out of the blue and tell you your machine has been infected with a virus or is experiencing some other serious problem that needs to be taken care of right away.

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