The average broadband speed across the UK is 6.2Mbit, where as the average advertised speed is 13.8Mbit, so most people are getting less than half the speed they are paying for. However, in some other European countries the average speed people are getting is over 16Mbits; in Germany and in Holland they are getting over…
Read MoreAs of 31st of March 2011 the amount of people using the internet passed the 2 billion mark (2,095,006,005 to be exact) or about 30.2% of the world population. Asia makes up 922 million with Europe the next closest at 476 million and North America at 272 million. North America may only have 272 million…
Read MoreYou expect the latest laptops, phones and a few desktop PCs to have Wi-Fi, but manufacturers are starting to make more and more devices with Wi-Fi built-in to make our lives easier. Things like printers and scanners being Wi-Fi make it easier to all use the same printer on different PCs or Apple Macs. HP…
Read MoreHaving used Apple Macs for over 16 years, today was the first time I have ever seen a Mac infected with malware!
Read MoreAn illustrated repair guide on popular Tech site Toms hardware has appeared giving people help on repairing their computer. As we are your friendly PC PAL Engineers we thought we would share this guide with you… see the link below: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/the-oatmeal-how-to-fix-computer,12618.html Did any of your find that helpful… NO… I didn’t think you would so…
Read MorePacket loss occurs when one or more packets of data (a web page, an email…) travelling across a computer network (the Internet, home network…) fail to reach their destination. Most online gamers will have come across this at sometime, high pings and packet losses tend to show up more in online games. There can be…
Read MoreThings have come a long way in 30 years since the first commercially successful portable computer the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 weighed 10.7 kg (23.5 pounds) with 2 5.25" floppy drives, a 5" display, a 4MHz Z80 CPU and 64KB RAM all for roughly $1,800 (£1108) when new. Other notable portable/laptop/notebook computers since the…
Read MoreIf you ever wanted to know what it is like actually being a PC PAL Engineer, now you can! We have just published our “Day in the Life of a PC PAL Engineer”. Take a look….
Read MoreThose free apps your kids download on the iPod/iPhone/iPad sometimes aren't so free, when they have extra items to make the game bigger and better, but that cost you money, charged through your iTunes account. Well Apple listened to the parents around the world who'd had rather large amounts of money charged to their credit/debit…
Read MoreMicrosoft's digital crimes unit and US marshalls took down computers in a number of US states last Wednesday, that were controlling millions of computers that have been infected with Rustock malware. I have noticed a drop in spam I'm getting from 10-20 messages to only 1-2 over these last few days. Some reports say Rustock…
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