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Former Member
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this machine has a 'netgear' wireless adapter and driver.
i just noticed it takes 4% of CPU even when no browsers are open on my DSL connection. is this normal? |
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Former Member
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Never noticed any cpu usage with my WG111
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Former Member
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yes it is a WG111 v.2
----------------------------------------http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/wg111v2.asp on windows vista home 2wire router from phone company [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 2, 2008 2:42:00 AM] |
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Former Member
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My wireless adapter is online in the bedroom.....I will try to remember to have a look in task manager in the morning.
(missus will kill me if I go up and turn monitor on now) |
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Former Member
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update:
----------------------------------------google earth was open and showing 0% CPU (vista), but somehow causes the wireless adapter to use 4%. when i closed google earth, the adapter went back to 0. strange. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 2, 2008 11:15:43 AM] |
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Sekerob
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Vista networking is horrible slow moving files around on the LAN and don't even think of opening Excel files across or you'll be twiddling thumbs.
----------------------------------------NASA now has video software that uses a little of your CPU and disk to share streams out to others, but only when watching! Not Rel. but is your wifi router wired to the computer? Mine is away in cabinet. No strings attached other than the telecom.
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I'm also using Windows Vista Home(premium) on my HP notebook. I do a ctrl+Alt+Del and check Task Manager - Performance - Resource Monitor - CPU,DISK and Network usage. It seems SVCHOST.EXE(local) is communicating and sending data to: 239.255.255.250 among a couple other addresses.
I did a Google a while back and found this. 'Although it's a valid IP address, it's not a valid Internet address in the traditional sense. According to the RFCs, valid Internet IPs range up to 223.255.255.255. Higher addresses are used for multicasting, or, in this case, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). UPnP is a network protocol that allows devices to detect and automatically configure each other, similiarly to the way hardware Plug and Play works in a PC, or more to the point, the way a DHCP server automatically assigns IP addressing information. The idea is that UPnP will simplify network configuration.' So possibly, windows is communicating with my wireless router? Maybe, windows is communicating with your USB wireless stick? This is strange stuff to me also of which I was not aware of until Windows Vista came long. |
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Has anyone tried any form of automatic peripheral switch? I am using the e-on adapter. This a BS socket adapter. I am afraid it is unsuitable for any other type of mains socket, so unless you can put a BS plug each on your computer cable and your strip socket lead, you can not use it. Someone should have produced something similar for other sockets.
It consists of a block with BS pins and three sockets, one of which is the master socket. Plug your computer into this and your peripherals (except your router if you have intranet) into either of the other two. When you power down your machine, forget about it until switch-on time. Meanwhile, as the computer switches itself off it will also switch off your monitor, printer, sound system, desk top lamp and anything else you have plugged into it and switch them on again next time it completes the start sequence. |
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