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Upgrade from 9 to 10?
I’ve been away from this forum for quite awhile and just found out about the 10 release.
Simple question: Is it worth the price of the upgrade?
Is there a cheaper place to get than the Sony website?
While I have your attention, I have an off-topic question. I just switched from DSL to a Comcast cable modem. The modem works on my Vista machine, but my Windows 7 laptop doesn’t see it. I’m connecting via ethernet cable. I’ve search for a solution, but can’t find an answer that applies to me. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks.
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I think it’s definitely worth it but I recommend that you download the trial and see for yourself.
If you have an existing version, the upgrade is only $140 direct from Sony and you can’t get that price anywhere else. -
Re: the Comcast cable modem question….
The modem will only communicate with one PC per power cycle. You cannot unplug one PC and plug in another without power cycling the modem. This is because it will only talk to one MAC address at a time, and it forgets the MAC address when it is power cycled.
To use two PCs with the same modem, you need a router. The modem sees the router as if it was a PC, and your PCs see the router as if it was the modem.
If this does not address your problem, make sure that the ethernet port in the Win7 laptop is detected by the system and is not shown in Device Manager with an exclamation point after it. Also, try power cycling the modem AND rebooting the laptop.
Paul
Paul Goelz
Rochester Hills, MI USA
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Hi Mike:
Could you provide a link for that $140 price? All I see is the $239 upgrade here:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/upgrade/vegaspro
Thanks!
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Here you go Nathan.
Vegas Pro 10 upgrade price
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Wow! We need to be friends so I can get the insider deals. 🙂
Seriously, thank you very much, that’s an outstanding price.
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I agree that it’s a great price for what is, IMO, one of the best releases of Vegas in a very long time.
I wish I could say that it’s an insider deal but anyone who signed up with Sony to receive their emails got the notification.
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Doh! I UNCHECKED that box when I registered to cut down on junk email. That could have cost me $100. Time to change my account preferences.
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I get very few emails from Sony (and most of them are quite useful, especially the newsletters) so this is something I don’t worry about.
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Most broadband modems will only communicate with one device at a time, and you may have to power-cycle the modem to get it to communicate with a different PC.
Ideally, you want to add a router… this is a small device that will present as a single Ethernet device to your modem, but allow any device on your network to communicate, using various tricks such as Network Address Translation (NAT). Routers can also offer some degree of firewall protection to the devices you have connected, they offer various controls over kinds of things that happen over the net, etc.
If you don’t want to buy a router, you can sometimes use a PC to do the same job. Microsoft has a built-in “Windows Connection Sharing” function, which lets one device act as a router. You do need multiple Ethernet ports for that (or one Ethernet, one wireless). A better solution, if you have Wireless and Windows 7, is to try Connectify (free download), which has a number of improvements over WCS. The only problem using a PC as a router is that, if you shut it down, all of your other devices lose their connection.
-Dave
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Check out the new Asante 600N model router at https://www.tigerdirect.com. Watch the four minute video. The Asante 600N programs itself, and appears to be truly ‘plug-n-play.’
FWIW.
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
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