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I will go up to 4tb for further SSD purchases myself, to even out write wear, to have multiple sizes, and to conserve PCI slots.

I loaded up on a few Samsung SSDs already, got a 2tb and a 4tb, also upgraded my CPU/MoBo about a year ago, so skipping this round for personal stuff.
I will likely buy a couple of Dell desktops to replace my brothers' older office PCs, I keep them on ~5 year rotation as cheap workstations.
I may ...

Congrats, enjoy it for a looong time !!!

Not sure, they've updated some of the settings and I don't see the search for a specific site in the settings > "cookies/site data" anymore, I feel like it was there in earlier builds.

I know in the chrome://history/ page, you can SHIFT+Click to select multiple lines, so you don't have to ...

My best guess is that site history is different than site data (cookies, cache, etc.)

You can manually delete sites from the History menu, not sure if it can be automated.
chrome://history/

One can reset TCP/IP and Winsock to the Windows defaults from the File menu in the Optimizer

Looks like Trump won.
I think there was no real evidence to support the "voting fraud" claims, even pres. Trump and the MAGA crowd should agree now that he won (even if it's a bit self-serving ;) )

Now let's see if he can balance the budget and stop the money printing presses, maybe even save the ...

I would try 8 queues with a separate PCI brand name NIC like Intel I suppose, but 4 queues is perfectly fine.

One of the candidates is not ready to concede, so it will be "interesting" for sure, I hope there is no crisis, and people are able to move forward together, regardless of party affiliation. I'm independent, and kind of tired of the divisiveness.

I am expecting issues tonight, Pennsylvania and potentially some other swing states will report results late, so I don't know if we'll have a clear winner tonight at all.

I will be watching, will try to tune-in later as I don't usually go to bed before midnight anyway.

I would just use fewer queues if it works better for you, it is also dependent on the NIC driver and other factors, not necessarily only the cores.

I've seen a lot of those stand alone teapot/water heaters in the EU, they seem very handy if you drink tea especially. That said, we don't use half of the more complex kitchen gadgets we have collected over the years. We use the microwave for warming stuff/water. Sometimes wifey uses a rice cooker ...

Was he trying to dehydrate plants in there? JK, looks like a steal for the price.

Looks wonderful

Welcome to SG. Interesting work, thanks for sharing.

I don't know exactly "how much weight" should be given to the db difference between channels. I imagine it would depend on the width of the ingress frequencies, it may affect a couple of channels, and not others. Modem manufacturer and DOCSIS ...

Looks nice, glad you found a good place. Inland is pretty safe if you're not in a flood zone. The coastline appeals to me as well, but not flood insurance and wind impact, heh. Ideally I'd like to live on a protected intracoastal somewhere, but I'm too cheap for that, boating is good enough for me ...

Cat, I'd also consider flood zones before buying a place with these recent hurricanes, it helps not to have to pay flood insurance.
https://www.augurisk.com/city/Florida/E ... 8675779863

I bought the wifey a 2024 Honda HR-V a year ago, has about 9k miles on it now. Smaller than the Pilot, but excellent mileage, and since kids grew up we don't seem to need a bigger SUV anymore (well, I do have a 6-cyl older 2011 BMW X3 with a tow hitch that can pull a boat).
I like the Honda HR-V ...

Very easy to see color, hehe

I prefer my cars silver/gray.

I do have a 2003 Harley Softail Deuce with only ~20k miles on it, but I don't get to ride much lately. I do call it my smart car, it does 40+ mpg, but treadwear on tires is much lower than cars, we're comparing Harleys and oranges.

Thanks Brian

Thank you! Went down to Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach to celebrate with some friends and listen to live rock music, it was good.

Mechanical keyboards are cool, the only drawback (for me) is they are kind of loud

1000 (1s) is plenty for a timeout on current broadband connections.

Yeah, anything to do with "fairness" would slow down your connection to be more "courteous" to neighboring traffic flows.

It may require reboot for it to take effect, but yeah, probably obsolete setting that current Windows versions don't consider.

Interesting find... It suggest that setting it to zero disables decisions of whether TCP Window Scaling (RFC1323) is on or off. In most current broadband environments it is set to ON, so I doubt it will make any noticeable difference, not sure if the setting is applicable to Windows 10/11 either ...

Yeah, I'd keep it an Normal. "Experimental" uses too aggressive of a TCP Window, it used to have issues even in LAN environments with transferring large files and local Windows file shares.

No, the test just gives you a lower score if your TCP Buffers are larger, because there is a potential that when nodes are congested you may oversaturate their memory with your packets, then they may start dropping your packets to slow you down. So the test recommends you to use smaller buffers, and ...

Maybe the TCP Optimizer is reading the setting from a different network adapter in your particular case, not sure why. It reads them from a Registry hive, I'd have to look into it further.

I wouldn't recommend that on a broadband connection though, you're limiting your throughput in order to MAYBE reduce packet loss and retransmissions IF a node near you is congested AND it starts dropping YOUR packets in THEIR buffer, which is not normal conditions scenario.

We still prefer CTCP for the optimal setting, but you're probably correct it should be added as an option.

Are you starting the TCP Optimizer "As administrator"?
When you click on the "Apply" settings in the TCP Optimizer, it shows exactly what Registry entries and PowerShell cmdlets are executed. You can then open PowerShell and view the settings and confirm they're changed with Get-NetTCPSetting

To ...

Sounds terrible what happened to the west coast down there. Despite the devastation, they will rebuild.

I think Englewood, North Port, Sarasota, etc. are somewhat more vibrant and touristy areas than north of Crystal River, up there is a much older, sleepy part of Florida.
People will rebuild, one ...

Thanks for checking in Brian, furniture and stuff can be replaced, glad you're ok. Hope you have electricity and there is not much property damage.

That was definitely very rough couple of weeks for the FL west coast. The flooding from hurricane Helene in St. Pete was extensive, higher than people ...

Yeah, hopefully no direct impact, good that you boarded up though. Didn't realize there is 28' above sea level in Clearwater, that's good at least. My brother lives in Temple Terrace, I have friends in St. Pete who mostly said they'll shelter in place, I only have one friend from Tiera Verde driving ...

Just like last week a hurricane is headed to Florida.. This one, however, if it follows the predicted path will hit Tampa Bay directly, something that hasn't happened in over 100 years. Tampa bay metro area is a very populated area, home of ~3.3 Million people along a low coastline. St. Petersburg ...

Hello Philip :)
The goal for the tweaks and the TCP Optimizer app was to help a wide range of broadband users. I had some help with the TCP Optimizer app from a friend that does more C++ development than me, but yeah, we tried to make it work simply on many OS variants.

As to the questions, you are ...

Updated to reflect that info.

Resetting TCP/IP and Winsock should not be necessary to increase network performance, but is it an option in the "File" menu of the TCP Optimizer.

Happy Birthday Immy!!

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