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Absolutely, laser toner doesn't dry out, and they beat Inkjets for consumables too.

I lile Laser printers as well, I've had a couple of Brother printers in the last 20 years that saw some heavy use from the wifey. I use a printer/scanner that is wired via Ethernet, only connected to a switch/router. Wireless clients can still find it on the LAN and print to it, and the toner lasts ...

By planning for volatility and tariffs, heh.
There are some pretty huge shocks to the economy/market for sure.
I am more into defensive positions, waiting it out, diversifying. This kind of cushions the blows, but still. I expect the whiplash huge up/down movements to continue, market may trend ...

If this started after you reformatted, it may be related to your PC and the OS, however, latency is usually caused by the feed your ISP provides.
The Asus AV7 and Duron is 20-year old gear, what type of Operating System do you run?
How is your PC connected to the DSL router, Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi ...

I've been using Ghostery for over a week, and I like it better than uBlock Origin Lite. It skips Youtube ads (mostly), rather than having to wait for the time to pass. The only small gripe I have is the Off button, I have to go through a pull-down menu to turn it off for banking and trusted sites ...

You're right. Also, for all those small engines if you leave them for a few months with regular gas in them, the carburetor can easily get clogged, I always try to use Ethanol-free fuel.

It's a wonderful thing :) Honda makes some of the best small motors.

My wife's sister once cleaned up the garage while her husband was out of town... and took to the curb a couple of lawn mowers that were working. One of them was my old Craftsman lawnmower that I had lended him, and another one was ...

Interesting, I'll have to try Ghostery.

Re: Passed CCNA and ENCOR knightmare wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:11 am

knightmare wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:11 am

What is the advertised speed of your Internet Connection?

Just choose the "Optimal" setting in the TCP Optiser, apply it and reboot, this covers most basic tweaks.

If you want to do something more, I'd look through the Network Adapter optimizations here: https://www.speedguide.net/articles/network ...

Knightmare? Hey dude, just PM or email me if you want to restore your old/original account and you can't login! (seems you were registered with some insightbb email address)

Newer versions of Windows don't let us tweak the RWIN setting, it is "auto-tuned" by the TCP/IP stack.
The TCP Optimizer "Optimal" settings are good set for Windows 10/11 if you want to try that. You should NOT have to reinstall the OS if you want to revert settings.

NIC optimization is useful, see ...

If it's working you're ok. Windows 11 TCP/IP tuning is pretty well optimized to boot.

Clever... I will look into a similar rule.

What I do with my influx of hundreds emails per day, is:
1. Setup antispam on the speedguide mail server (Weighting based on Bayesian score, DKIM, SPF, From country, From domain reputation, and a number of other checks), and move spam to a "Junk" folder ...

Just have the Apple Store reset your phone, and check for hardware issues.
Uninstall apps you don't use.
Change passwords on Uber/etc.

Emails can take a while if you are sending to a different domain, especially if it does not have some of the antispam protections schemes (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), it is not whitelisted by antispam databases, etc. Email is kind of a complicated/convoluted scheme that was originally intended for text, and ...

Click on another "tool" button would be my guess

Whoa, 2001

Nice to see some of the old timers around. I purged some old inactive accounts, but kept those with multiple posts.

Good luck with the Broadband Bulletin Dustyn, it's all about the community, I'm glad that someone is trying to help the DSLReports crowd.

Welcome back to SG! Sorry to hear about the DSLReports forum actually.. Hope they bring it back up, there was a lot of useful info there compiled over the years.. I may go and post in their reddit or something, most of the members probably don't know about SG

2k for a video card sounds crazy, you're right, heh. Some people have crazy gaming setups though, with multiple 4k-8k displays and want frame rate in the 100s on highest game settings...

Intel actually came up recently with good mid-range video cards that are beating Nvidia for the price, the "Arc ...

and Happy New Year!!! Health, lots of joy, and let 2025 be great for you

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!

There are not many players in the HDD space anymore, I just buy some WD reds for storage. Double up on the data, and you will be safe :)

I have an old low-power PC running Linux with a network share and a few HDDs. I have it run a periodic script that syncs the data between identical size drives ...

Sounds like a bit of an escalation on the trade war... Government has a hard time keeping up with all the technology and it creates a problem, especially with foreign/chinese-owned companies. The list of companies/hardware/apps/software not allowed on government computers keeps growing, just like ...

You are talking about browsers though, not ad-blocking extensions.

From what I read:
Firefox-based: Floorp, LibreWolf
Chromium-based: Brave, Vivaldi (streaming services and workspaces may be a bit better supported, if you care)

What is your default browser? Some of them may have built-in "security" as in DNS, VPN, etc. that shows your geolocation somewhere else. Could be a security extension too.
Another option is that the geolocation of your IP address from your ISP extends into Mexico, not sure, heh.

Happy Birthday and all the best!

Absolutely will open up doors. Japan, interesting, never been there but planning to visit some day. I am too settled/comfortable/lazy/married/old to gather up and move anywhere, but maybe I will try to spend summers in the EU in a few years when I slow down from work.

Since my kids grew up I opt on the side of money (cash, Amazon gift cards), or some electronics that they really need to upgrade (but don't have the budget for), like cell phones... Thanks for the reminder though, I have to find/buy this perfume for the wifey that she likes, it totally slipped my ...

Good to see ya around Paft !

A new house, "relashionships" and a puppy, whoa, big life events.

Agreed, FISCAL responsibility of our recent government in this millennia has been terrible, and is one of the major driving forces of inflation imho. Let's see if they actually do something.

It is a very good thing that you are following up on this path, and you're consistent. Congrats on taking the test! Getting one of those security certs will definitely make you more valuable in any corporate/government setting. Do you use this knowledge in your current job, or what's next?

Happy Birthday!

Bike tires is like investing in yourself, sounds like a good thing :)

I bought a dehumidifier for my daughter, some bathroom faucet from Amazon that I have to change, and some other small stuff (Anker USB3 hub, extra wi-fi security camera with sd card) but nothing expensive this year. I looked at ...

Not sure exactly.. All I can tell you is the Analyzer reads it from the TCP/IP handshake.

The Analyzer has not been changed recently, it just reads what your connection to the Analyzer server advertises.
It really depends on the path, most likely some modem/router/node near you may be advertising the smaller max packet size to fit PPPoE encapsulation.

I have my cousin and my sister in-law with their families coming in two hours, turkey is in the oven, mashed potatoes are done, warming up a bunch of sides I bought pre-made, cooling some Prosecco and beer.

We are starting early this year (around 2pm) and should theoretically be stuffed before ...

Happy Thanksgiving and all the best to everyone!

For those in the US that celebrate it today, I hope you're spending it with family and people you care about.

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