Recent content by FrankS

Final update. I followed the advice of Ghot & purchased a Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter, USB to RJ45. Internet speed is 320Mbps up & down - actually faster than my ISP's advertised speed. Thanks for your advice.

Yeah, that would work but a Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter, USB to RJ45 would be neater & cheaper for my purposes. Thanks anyway.

That's interesting & doesn't cost much at all. I may invest in one of those. Although since I'll only use ethernet when relatively close to the router & since WiFi is up to speed anyhow perhaps that'd be superfluous. Thanks for your help.

Ah, well that's a disappointment. Luckily the WiFi is up to speed & I guess that's one less cable. Thanks for help.

What are you saying? That the NIC is not up to the task?

Here’s mine

The laptop is about 3 feet away from the router & the Ethernet cable is a new 3 meter cat 6.

I recently upgraded to FTTP (300Mbps). I’ve noticed that on my laptop WiFi up/down load speed is a lot faster than Ethernet speeds. Ethernet: approx 100 up & down WiFi: 175 down. 330 up I would have expected the opposite. Why might this be?

Thank you. That's solved it.

On Windows 11 at the Bing Home page the search dialog box has a black background and the font is very dark also. As a result I'm unable to read/see any responses. How do I change it to black font on a white background?

Thanks. I'll give those a try.

On Windows 10 when an application is running it's icon on the taskbar expands, clearly indicating that the app is running. However, on Windows 11 this has changed & now the only indication that the app is running is a tiny, hardly visible underline on the app's taskbar icon. Is it possible to...