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post #1 of 20
5/12/04 at 8:39pm
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So what happened? I haven't been able to access the site for over a day. Was this a planned outage?
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post #2 of 20
5/12/04 at 8:43pm
Yes, it was down, same thing with pctorque.com. Why is this in the Dell section?
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post #3 of 20
5/12/04 at 8:49pm
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Originally Posted by fiction1337
Yes, it was down, same thing with pctorque.com. Why is this in the Dell section?
Knew it was down since yesterday...just wondering why and if other outages are expected. Kinda missed the place
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post #4 of 20
5/12/04 at 8:51pm
I havent been able to access these forums for 2 days now. Glad its up
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post #5 of 20
5/12/04 at 8:52pm
I was going through withdrawals. These forums have been my source of sanity while waiting for my iXPS to arrive.
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post #6 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:04pm
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I took it in stride. I've been meaning to upgrade my wireless from D-link's propriatary 22MB/s 802.11b up to Linksys 802.11g router w/Dell 1350 Mini-PCI on all three notebooks. What's up with the signal strength of the new 1350? It only reads between low to good regardless of notebook location. I was getting excellent receive levels with the older D-Link Mini-PCIs.
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post #7 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:09pm
I was kinda grateful that it was down cause I have finals, and have to study. Usually I check up on these finals at least twice a day out of curiosity of what's going on. And yea, right after I get over my withdrawel the forums comes back online. hehe.
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post #8 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:10pm
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I took it in stride. I've been meaning to upgrade my wireless from D-link's propriatary 22MB/s 802.11b up to Linksys 802.11g router w/Dell 1350 Mini-PCI on all three notebooks. What's up with the signal strength of the new 1350? It only reads between low to good regardless of notebook location. I was getting excellent receive levels with the older D-Link Mini-PCIs.
is it just me or this is Off topic??? JK
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post #9 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:11pm
o crap, spiike took my place
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post #10 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:11pm
Somms, cool wallpapers linked to in your sig. *bookmarks*

I have my site hosted on Lunar Pages too.
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post #11 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:14pm
hey, just editing pre-last message, i notice it was a lot faster....
have you notice it??? or is it just me?
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post #12 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:17pm
Well at least I know it wasn't just my connection now
stu
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post #13 of 20
5/12/04 at 9:20pm
i thought it was my connection, until i saw somms post in Dell forums, funny i never go there, but i went so see if any of you would mention anything....
somms did!!!!
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post #14 of 20
5/12/04 at 11:04pm
Apparently the guys/girls over at pctorque (who provide these forums) had a major 'hardware failure' the pctorque website was also down.
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post #15 of 20
5/12/04 at 11:11pm
Wel im very happy this is back up. i love this community. I felt a little lost with out it. right now at my job im really not doing much so i just say on this for my 8 HR shift at my job. is what keeps me busy or i play game on my 8600 (hoping i dont get busted).


But this forums are missed pretty much. i thouhgt they had forgot to pay the bill or something and that y it was down. LOL
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post #16 of 20
5/13/04 at 4:22am
I dunno what I'd do....... maybe go back to the dell forum? Since coming here I prefer it so much and post a lot less on the Dell forum. Community is better here
stu
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post #17 of 20
5/13/04 at 12:58pm
but you still go to the dell forums sakor1
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post #18 of 20
5/14/04 at 2:41am
Yeah, but as I said, I post a lot less there now, especially compared to what I post here........... but yeah I still post.

Why? There are more interesting topics, and a better variety IMO, raised here and it has more of a sense of community.

At the Dell forums you can find some good posts..... but you have to dig through 10'000 of the same thing every day where they could easily have used the search function or looked through the first page. Eg:
- Can you upgrade the video in the i5100? (If I see that one more time....)
- Why is my CPU only going at 600MHz (Speedstep questions out the wazoo)
- System suddenly slow, HELP!

Sure, we get stuff like that here occasionally, but generally people here are much better at looking before they ask so I don't mind.

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the Dell forums but the shine has worn off and it seems to be going downhill.

Just my two cents anyway,

stu
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post #19 of 20
5/18/04 at 1:00pm
Exactly my same thoughts havent seen you around there for a while sakor but then i havent been there in months.
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post #20 of 20
5/18/04 at 8:47pm
I'm still there, but I only post a couple of messages a day there so I can understand if someone thought I was gone completely.
stu
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