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Picking the right TV is important. Right behind your health, and your family, and world politics. But face it, it's up there. It beat world peace once in a survey--seriously.
Anyway, this week the Top 5 tells you the best TVs you can get. And you have a chance to win a Star Wars space shooter. Watch the show, answer the question in the comments below, and you could get a free thing. And that's important too.
It's our international show with an Australian phone, U.K. laptops for life and bandwidth troubles solved for a South African.
Watch the show on CNET TV.
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Charlie in South Africa sent a video about bandwidth metering. There are a lot of filtering programs out there meant for protecting children, but that can be used to password protect Internet access. For more advanced Internet control, try Traffic Shaper XP. I found it referenced in this article here. You could also try third-party firmware for the router like dd-wrt or Tomato.
Alex needed some help getting a printer connected to Vista to play nice with a Mac. Brian Tong recommended Bonjour for Windows, which allows a Windows machine to network easily with the Macs Bonjour networking protocol.
Roberto just wanted to say thank you for winning an iPod Touch on the Holiday Help Desk last Friday. Your very welcome Roberto!
Your calls
Steve called back with woes regarding his Actiontec router for Verizon Fios which constantly loses connection. Molly noted this is a common complaint of Fios users and suggested switching channels to see if you can avoid interference, and also suggested that Steven turn off his 2.4 GHz phone which may interfere with the Wi-Fi router. There's also a thread on DSLReports.com about other users trying to replace the Actiontec router.
You can use an old TV with component cables and 5.1 or optical audio just fine. The only video issue will be the lack of 1080p for high-definition content. But otherwise it will work well.
Want a good TV with 120Hz refresh rate? Take a look through our recommended top LCD TVs.
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Whether it's a regular text note, or a recorded video question, you can send it to cnetlive@cnet.com. Keep your videos to 15 seconds or less, post them to a Web site like Youtube, and then e-mail us the link.
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