@yakkoTDI That is how I try to have most of mine, I had to use a Hitron Bonded MoCA 2.5 Adapter to get hardwire in the Far room TV & the rest of the entertainment system is! It works Great!
@Cerridwyn@Kyeh I was once working with a team of outsourced workers in India and they would all use the word “fine” where we might say “ok”…
Can you make a change to x please?
Fine
Would it be ok if I do xyz?
Fine, yes.
Having spoke to them in person and heard their tone in person, I know they were a good group of guys, but their emails always came across as slightly rude because of the word “fine” but it’s just a slight different implication in word-usage… I always chuckled at their emails because I knew they didn’t mean it badly.
Many years ago, a friend tried to end her life. She spent a few weeks inpatient at a psych hospital. She learned that acronym there and it has stayed with me for 35 years. I giggle inside anytime someone says they are ‘fine’
Dropped spectrum in 2023 after about 15 years and moved to tmobile home internet. They offered me a deal that was 1/3 the cost of spectrum. Sofar it’s been pretty good and I work from home
@ironcheftoni we have had T-Mobile for a few It’s been great. The only outages we have had were for tower repair. Three or four total in a fewyears. All fixed same day.
@ironcheftoni
Unfortunately, in our rural upstate NY location, we can only get 1.5 to 2 bars to manifest on the T-Mobile 5G Router regardless of its positioning- so for the nonce, we’re stuck with Spectrum- which does totally suck in every way [including my wallet].
@chienfou
Hey back atcha!
Unfortunately, those 1.5 - 2 bars actually mean that we don’t get it either [in any useable fashion], unless you like seeing a circling buffering cursor show up every 30 seconds of anything you’re watching or doing.
@chienfou@PhysAssist And the monopoly here is xfinity. Hardwired in 1978… yeah lots of problems. Big number ping, often over 180. And expensive. Sucks.
Completely self-designed, installed, and secured, I hope. A dual band WiFi 6 router running WPA2 with a 2.5GBe connection to a Fibre modem. Maybe I said too much.
Annoyingly, as much as I have tried to get my home wired network to be the fastest, it hovers at 342 mbps, while my wifi continues to sit at 900-1200 mbps.
Router on one side of the house feeds a wired link to another router on the other side I use to power my guest network to the pool house. Pick up a signal on most of my acre, which is useful when listening to music while I mow (my cell signal in this small town can be spotty…)
Live in 525 square feet. No need for anything fancy. Stuck with xfinity due to their monopoly (place is hard wired - the other choice is AT&T over the phone at 3 mbps) and the apartment building won’t let us put up a dish so trapped with them. I do, though, finally know a phone number at corporate that actually manages to get things accomplished (so if anyone needs that let me know). There are good reasons why they are the most hated company in the USA.
The best though was calling customer service about an on going problem (that needed corporate involved for local to actually get motivated to fix it) and the guy the Philippines said he had to get off the phone (after he saw the mess going on) because an earthquake was happening. Um nope. Checked that later. No earthquake anywhere in the Philippines that day. Added that to my list of creative excuses. Oh wait. No earthquakes here. At least not recently enough to count as believable.
I’ve got CAT6 hookup in just about every room and anything that can be wired, is wired. So, our wifi works great because not too much interference from too many devices. Also, we’re rural so little interference from other people’s wifis… I would say our Wifi is fantastic…
… now internet is a different story. Spectrum has a monopoly in my area… and they suck. (hopefully 5G internet will be an option someday so I can kick Spectrum to the curb). But wifi between devices in the house is good.
The WiFi on the router CenturyLink provided was OK, but I had some smart locks that would drop every couple weeks, requiring a power cycle to start working again.
After isolating the problem to dropped WiFi, I got a Netgear AX8 extender, duplicated the SSIDs on it, and disabled the ones on the ISP router. All connection issues stopped, and I was even able to get rid of the wall plug repeater I’d previously needed to extend to my smart garage door opener.
Transfer speeds are probably also faster, but I have everything I can wired (consoles, HTPC, streaming device, etc.), so all that is already going over gigabit.
I could have 10/100 mbps NICs and CAT 5 cables, going to an old 10 Mbps switch and my gigabit fiber connection would seem super slow because of the 10 Mbps bottle neck.
The Wifi6 radio on my gigabit fiber connection will provide the advertised 1 gbps speeds to my wifi6 devices, but my 2.4ghz devices will only get 80 to 100 mbps and seem super slow.
You gotta know where your bottle necks are so you can eliminate those first.
Upgrading to a WiFi router won’t help if your TV only has a 2.4ghz radio, or if your ISP only provides 200mbps on an over saturated network.
Wired.
@yakkoTDI That is how I try to have most of mine, I had to use a Hitron Bonded MoCA 2.5 Adapter to get hardwire in the Far room TV & the rest of the entertainment system is! It works Great!
Of course you all know what fine stands for right?
Fucked up
Insecure
Neurotic. And
Emotional.
'Nuff said
@Cerridwyn So you have met my fine ex-girlfriend.
@Cerridwyn Thank You I will to use that statement!
@Cerridwyn
A friend of mine once said "The female F-word is fine.
As in “Oh, that’s what you’re going to do? Fine.”
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh I was once working with a team of outsourced workers in India and they would all use the word “fine” where we might say “ok”…
Can you make a change to x please?
Would it be ok if I do xyz?
Having spoke to them in person and heard their tone in person, I know they were a good group of guys, but their emails always came across as slightly rude because of the word “fine” but it’s just a slight different implication in word-usage… I always chuckled at their emails because I knew they didn’t mean it badly.
@Kyeh @OnionSoup
Many years ago, a friend tried to end her life. She spent a few weeks inpatient at a psych hospital. She learned that acronym there and it has stayed with me for 35 years. I giggle inside anytime someone says they are ‘fine’
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @OnionSoup
https://meh.com/forum/topics/ask-irk-how-are-you-2
Dropped spectrum in 2023 after about 15 years and moved to tmobile home internet. They offered me a deal that was 1/3 the cost of spectrum. Sofar it’s been pretty good and I work from home
@ironcheftoni I gave up Verizon FIOS TV, cost way too much after been with them for decade +
@ironcheftoni we have had T-Mobile for a few It’s been great. The only outages we have had were for tower repair. Three or four total in a fewyears. All fixed same day.
@ironcheftoni @geometry dash Me too my friend :(( I also gave up Verizon FIOS TV
@ironcheftoni
Unfortunately, in our rural upstate NY location, we can only get 1.5 to 2 bars to manifest on the T-Mobile 5G Router regardless of its positioning- so for the nonce, we’re stuck with Spectrum- which does totally suck in every way [including my wallet].
@PhysAssist
Hey… At least you have 5g. Here in rural Central Alabama that’s a no-go from my local tower.
@chienfou
Hey back atcha!
Unfortunately, those 1.5 - 2 bars actually mean that we don’t get it either [in any useable fashion], unless you like seeing a circling buffering cursor show up every 30 seconds of anything you’re watching or doing.
@chienfou @PhysAssist And the monopoly here is xfinity. Hardwired in 1978… yeah lots of problems. Big number ping, often over 180. And expensive. Sucks.
@PhysAssist
Off
It’s a combo of wired/weird…
Completely self-designed, installed, and secured, I hope. A dual band WiFi 6 router running WPA2 with a 2.5GBe connection to a Fibre modem. Maybe I said too much.
@hchavers Let us analyze the strength of your password for you.
My hotspot SSID is Network Not Available, and the PW is really long. It doesn’t get a lot of use because both of our phones rely on 5G anyway.
@werehatrack I run an Asus mesh router pair because otherwise the signal gets weak in the other half of the house.
Annoyingly, as much as I have tried to get my home wired network to be the fastest, it hovers at 342 mbps, while my wifi continues to sit at 900-1200 mbps.
Sometimes people freeze during teams meetings if I am in my bedroom. My bedroom isn’t far from where the router is located.
@kittykat9180 They freeze because of what they see?
Router on one side of the house feeds a wired link to another router on the other side I use to power my guest network to the pool house. Pick up a signal on most of my acre, which is useful when listening to music while I mow (my cell signal in this small town can be spotty…)
1700sf condo, 3 mesh WiFi points with wired backhaul to each, MoCA to the streaming box. Solid as a rock.
I have 5 PoE+ APs around my house mounted to the ceiling. There are NO dead zones.
Live in 525 square feet. No need for anything fancy. Stuck with xfinity due to their monopoly (place is hard wired - the other choice is AT&T over the phone at 3 mbps) and the apartment building won’t let us put up a dish so trapped with them. I do, though, finally know a phone number at corporate that actually manages to get things accomplished (so if anyone needs that let me know). There are good reasons why they are the most hated company in the USA.
The best though was calling customer service about an on going problem (that needed corporate involved for local to actually get motivated to fix it) and the guy the Philippines said he had to get off the phone (after he saw the mess going on) because an earthquake was happening. Um nope. Checked that later. No earthquake anywhere in the Philippines that day. Added that to my list of creative excuses. Oh wait. No earthquakes here. At least not recently enough to count as believable.
I’ve got CAT6 hookup in just about every room and anything that can be wired, is wired. So, our wifi works great because not too much interference from too many devices. Also, we’re rural so little interference from other people’s wifis… I would say our Wifi is fantastic…
… now internet is a different story. Spectrum has a monopoly in my area… and they suck. (hopefully 5G internet will be an option someday so I can kick Spectrum to the curb). But wifi between devices in the house is good.
@OnionSoup starlink
@Ptaco slow and unreliable. It’s only really good as an option when there are no other options
The WiFi on the router CenturyLink provided was OK, but I had some smart locks that would drop every couple weeks, requiring a power cycle to start working again.
After isolating the problem to dropped WiFi, I got a Netgear AX8 extender, duplicated the SSIDs on it, and disabled the ones on the ISP router. All connection issues stopped, and I was even able to get rid of the wall plug repeater I’d previously needed to extend to my smart garage door opener.
Transfer speeds are probably also faster, but I have everything I can wired (consoles, HTPC, streaming device, etc.), so all that is already going over gigabit.
I could have 10/100 mbps NICs and CAT 5 cables, going to an old 10 Mbps switch and my gigabit fiber connection would seem super slow because of the 10 Mbps bottle neck.
The Wifi6 radio on my gigabit fiber connection will provide the advertised 1 gbps speeds to my wifi6 devices, but my 2.4ghz devices will only get 80 to 100 mbps and seem super slow.
You gotta know where your bottle necks are so you can eliminate those first.
Upgrading to a WiFi router won’t help if your TV only has a 2.4ghz radio, or if your ISP only provides 200mbps on an over saturated network.
I keep reading this as “How’s your wife at home?”
@ybmuG the final option bar covers the “B” in bad now so it just looks “Sad”