yeah, as long as you have two finger scrolling and three finger tapping/dragging I don’t like sounding like a broken record that much (even as this was one of those massive things that people who refused to touch a mac just had garbage to work with for years and years), but it’s still pretty night and day tbh
just like the way apple implements ACPI sleep on their notebooks
no comparison, oh well
eagerly watching CES 2020 coverage so I can see yet another expo go by with no forthcoming mass market cheap ITX case that isn’t “ATX tower but small” or “a fucking brick”
really glad Intel came in and made up their own thing for the new NUC and now everyone is circlejerking making cases for that while also conveniently withholding prices because they and I know the things are going to start at 1500-1700 bucks
okay, here’s a fun one.
My windows 10 PC is connected to a mesh network node via ethernet. periodically, the internet will just stop working on it. it says it’s connected, but no service that uses the internet will work.
it starts working again after a little while. then everything’s fine! other devices on my network do not experience this. it happens infrequently, maybe once or twice a day.
i can’t tell what triggers it, and it seems to resolve itself given a few minutes, but it’s a real pain. are there any tests i can run next time it happens to determine what might be causing it?
Like some public wireless mesh? Or some Ubiquity APs running WDS?
My guess is your DHCP lease is renewing and congestion is not letting your locally-attached base station get enough airtime to send/receive the discovery/offer/request/acknowledge packets. You could test this by releasing/renewing the lease (I forget the commands for Windows, probably ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew), checking the DHCP server’s logs/lease database, monitoring trading on the APS to spot congestion.
Is it 2.4GHz? Do you have a microwave nearby??
oh, personal home network. we’re using a mesh wireless network in the house.
i will try these things when it happens next! (so far, not today)
i was brushing up on some webdev stuff, my first paid work as a lad was making websites for local businesses cash in hand but i haven’t really kept up with it since
the total reliance on bootstrap nowadays seems depressing
i know this is a hardware thread but it’s the best place to moan about/sneer at anything vaguely computer related right
I would be so happy with a dedicated let’s complain about the state of web development thread.
reliance on bootstrap is bad, but not as bad as reliance on jquery, which isn’t as bad as reliance on wordpress
webdev is a mess but I mean building and maintaining websites is hard, I kind of understand why people rely more on ready-made solutions which are at least cheap and fast.
the other side of the coin is that in fact, bootstrap, jquery, and wordpress are all totally fine as tools if used properly and with care but literally no one does that.
so really what difference does it make lol
(fwiw tho most of the enterprise world has moved on from that particular technology stack and uses stuff like vuejs, react, or angular which, while all annoying in their own way, at least enforce somewhat better practices and coding discipline)
OK, on this warning, I ended up splurging on a Netgear AX12. I mainly want the signal strength right now but I don’t really want to have to upgrade again to get the AX later.
Now I have the top half of Darth Vader’s TIE fighter, but at least it’s not a robotic spider
congrats, can’t wait to hear how satisfied you are with your ridiculously powerful router
I’m not blown away by the setup experience so far. Steam downloads were mysteriously failing with the default configuration of NAT-inside-NAT (my ISP forces me to use their router). Switching to “AP mode” (buried in Advanced -> Advanced menu) fixed it but made the mobile app and the http://routerlogin.net/ thing stop working entirely, so I was struggling to figure out the new address of the router to do further configuration.
I’ve never had any problems before with NAT-inside-NAT with my previous routers so I’m not too impressed with this.
You can look in the dhcp leases of your main router, though really you should give the ap a static ip imo
Nat inside nat seems really gross and full of headaches but I can’t say I’ve ever tried it. Even if the isp says I have to use their shit I’ve always found a way around it
most ISP routers can be toggled to a bridge mode to totally disable the routing and make them act like standalone modems
your router address is almost certainly 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1, but you can also just do a route -n or whatever to see what comes up as your gateway (just like if you were, say, trying to hit the in-flight wifi redirect on a Linux that was failing to trigger it)
also if you wind up being equally unimpressed by the signal strength on 5ghz ac, see if it’s defaulting to a non-UMTI3 channel; those sometimes have lower broadcast power hardcoded for legacy reasons and some routers will default to them as “good behaviour”
I ended up factory resetting the router and setting in AP mode with a fixed IP address this time. Checking the DHCP lease list would’ve probably been faster but I didn’t think about it before resetting.
My ISP’s router doesn’t support passive bridging. It doesn’t support changing the DNS server it broadcasts to DHCP clients, either. One appeal of NAT-inside-NAT for me before is that I could fix that especially to avoid the gross search results page it presents for invalid DNS addresses. (I just now found how to disable that on AT&T’s website, though.)
Googling “UMTI3” turns up bupkis so you might need to spell out that acronym
sorry, I meant U-NII-3, UMTI is something else
it’s the 149-165 range
NAT inside NAT typically isn’t too bad in terms of latency or other edge cases, it just makes port forwarding a pain in the ass
It’s 153, looks like that’s U-NII-3 according to Wikipedia
I don’t understand why that’s not “auto” like the 2.4Ghz channels but anyway
2.4ghz channels are functionally equivalent to one another, 5ghz channels have been released in waves and have a lot of associated political blahblahblah
I set up a Microsoft Family Account for my son’s computer and an hour ago, when I know for sure he was nowhere near the computer (and hasn’t used it today at all, pretty sure), Microsoft lets me know that he purchased an app. Okay, it’s the HP Smart app, which is Free, and we do happen to have an HP printer sitting on the same wi-fi network. When I check in his activity in the Family Account page (which the email advises me to do so if I want to see the purchase), it cheerily informs that nothing has ever been purchased.
So, uh, what are the odds that Microsoft and HP tag-teamed to automatically install a printer app over our wi-fi? While weird, it seems more likely to me than somebody maliciously going into a Family Account and downloading an app that would work with our brand of printer. Maybe somebody trying to joke print? Joke’s on them in that case, there’s no paper in there.
Windows has been pushing DCH drivers since the 1903 update and those require UWP apps from the Microsoft Store for support apps (eg, in the case of NVIDIA drivers, the NVIDIA Control Panel). I’m guessing the HP printer has DCH drivers which pushed the HP Smart app.