I think it's actually all the same issue that never quite get all the way fixed. I suspect that somewhere there is a particularly stubborn virus/spyware or whatever that I keep barely in check. I taken it in to be professionally looked at before. Worked for a while.
Part of my problem is that I'm not a very savvy computer user, so I don't know all the ins and outs of protection the system, and I'm also stubborn. I hate to be limited by being scared of something, so I charge ahead on the internet probably more than a person should.
I have no idea with the routers, though. My house eats routers. I'm on my third one. They all work for a while, then slowly stop funtioning.
1) Make sure they ain't in a place that gets hot. They need lots of room to breathe (why they don't have active cooling on routers, I'll never know).
2) Check what kind of line voltage you're getting out of your outlets during evening hours.
Routers should not die as quickly as yours seem to die. They will die, over time, in exactly the way you describe... just usually not as fast.
As for the PC thing, I reinstall Windows from scratch every year to 18 months. Usually that's due to my rolling upgrades. I got a nasty virus last year (while being stupid on the net) that basically took the system down. I got it working, but the virus was still generally there, so I nuked it and started over. It's really the only way to be sure. PCs are great (and cheap) but they do require a fair amount of coddling to perform reliably. Macs, like pretty much anything else, work until they don't. I know less about fixing Macs than PCs, which dictates my choice.
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it's so weird.
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Part of my problem is that I'm not a very savvy computer user, so I don't know all the ins and outs of protection the system, and I'm also stubborn. I hate to be limited by being scared of something, so I charge ahead on the internet probably more than a person should.
I have no idea with the routers, though. My house eats routers. I'm on my third one. They all work for a while, then slowly stop funtioning.
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1) Make sure they ain't in a place that gets hot. They need lots of room to breathe (why they don't have active cooling on routers, I'll never know).
2) Check what kind of line voltage you're getting out of your outlets during evening hours.
Routers should not die as quickly as yours seem to die. They will die, over time, in exactly the way you describe... just usually not as fast.
As for the PC thing, I reinstall Windows from scratch every year to 18 months. Usually that's due to my rolling upgrades. I got a nasty virus last year (while being stupid on the net) that basically took the system down. I got it working, but the virus was still generally there, so I nuked it and started over. It's really the only way to be sure. PCs are great (and cheap) but they do require a fair amount of coddling to perform reliably. Macs, like pretty much anything else, work until they don't. I know less about fixing Macs than PCs, which dictates my choice.
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