Erik/Burrito,
Glad to give you the reminder, I guess?
Well, I just bought Asus Xonar U3 for my laptop. Amazon (or more specifically Asus) is doing a $10 rebate program on the item so I figured why not? I also bought Bayonetta for my PS3 for $20 and change. Did that guy ever figure out how to use the U3 for 3D sound?...
On the other hand I also bought a bunch of cables from monoprice.com. They charged me almost $10 for UPS...
I bought a long ass ethernet cable 100 ft which is honestly probably more than what I need, but like they say,
mejor que sobre y no que falte. I'm finally going to be able to plug in my PS3 for some decent download speeds...
Am I "that guy," or somebody more qualified than me? I don't know how to get surround (it would just be 2D, there's forward/back but sadly no up/down) with a U3 from a PS3, unless it works just by plugging it into a USB port. Haven't tried it, but good luck man! Wouldn't it be weird if it just tried to make the chat audio into surround? 0.o I always wanted Bayonetta, if the urge to get DMC (the new reboot) becomes too strong I'll deflect it by joining you in hair-clothes gaming action
100' of Ethernet cable will be pretty heavy... Shipping price seems fair to me. I had a 25' Ethernet cable run around my living room, up over a dresser, out into the hall, up the stairs, and into our router/modem, and I STILL had slack. I think, with 100', I could run a cable from my basement to the
neighbor's router, lol. [I'm just jealous your house is so big]
I never understood why people want a 300mbps wireless or 1gbps Ethernet connection to their router, when all that awesome bandwidth will be bottlenecked by a 20 Mbps "high speed" Internet. What's my bandwidth performing at now anyway? [Edit: weaksauce, it's 1:30am and we only have 12 mbps, tested twice. why did we pay extra to upgrade from 15 to 20mbps if i cant get even 15 in the middle of the night?] Now I do believe a better wifi signal and a better router help saturate a connection and work more efficiently (making it more likely to get host), and a wired connection is less finicky.
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Mad,
Duck face! ^^3
But yeah, I see a resemblance. Winter 2013 fashion trend or a repeat of the Denon/Creative shared design? I doubt they sound the same, but I dunno.
You could go to speedtest.net and measure your connection, but most likely either your PS3 has a weak wi-fi connection like you said, or PSN just doesn't have very fast servers.
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Impulse,
You make me hungry. DAMN YOU! I worked the crap outta myself at the gym and a whopper sounds like a delicious setback. Thank goodness I probably wouldn't make it to a BK before they close in 20 mins.