it turns out the fix was turning the HDD power option on and back off
I love computers
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Are those Mesh Wifi Hotspot systems worth a shit?
Directly between my Cable Modem/wifi router and my TV I’ve got:
- A full on brick Wall
- A Refrigerator
- A Microwave
- A Tiled Bathroom
My devices in the living room (PS4, Smart TV) will show a good 4 bar connection but it seems the connection will get interrupted or something, so streams will stutter every 5-10 minutes. I’m about to run 300ft of cable to at least try and get the router on the other side of the brick wall, but if there’s another option available to me I’d love to hear it.
yeah they’re good, you have to spend though if you really want at least three (genders) that can go around brick
and if I were investing that much at this point I’d want to wait until ubiquiti makes wifi 6E hardware which is still probably a few months out
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There’s also powerline ethernet adapters and coax ethernet adapters, you could use those to get ethernet to the room in question and set up another router or access point
powerline tends to max out around 200mbps at the best of times though, it’s not great compared to modern wifi, it’s only really better than 2.4ghz
Yeah the coax ones are much better. Still, it’s an option that isn’t just blast 2.4 over your neighbors or try to run cable somehow.
just cable it. but that’s almost the max length for a single run (90m + a bit for patch cables each end)
Because your setup is borderline close to working through the walls already, maybe having a stronger receiver on the client side would help. You could get a second wifi router and configure it in receiver bridge mode (some but not all routers support this) and then plug your PS4 and smart TV into its ethernet ports, instead of using their built-in wifi. That’s a relatively cheap thing to try because you can probably find $50 routers that support this, and maybe you already have one in a box somewhere.
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Thank you for all of the replies! I guess I wasn’t aware that there was such a thing as reciever strength, but I’ll definitely try the router bridge mode first and see if that has any effect, and work my way up the expensiveness ladder from there.
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Wow. This diplomatically unnamed SDK is Facebook’s BTW
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oh yeah this ruined everything yesterday
my motherboard has an lga-1150 socket
the fastest cpu for the lga-1150 socket is the i7-4790k, afaik
if I can get someone on facebook/offerup to sell me a used one for ~$100
can i get better cpu+motherboard performance for $100-150 an other way?
regardless of what platform you upgrade to, unless you get some crazy deals, you’re paying at least 180-200 because you need DDR4 memory to go with your new platform
Just checking - I should basically never upgrade my mac to catalina, right?
honestly no, you should consider whatever the next release or the one after that is since Mojave will be out of support by 2022, and the app ecosystem will probably be sorted out by then as they’ll have used the 32-bit deprecation as a precursor to arm CPUs like everyone thought, but Catalina itself is a bad upgrade
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Very well, then.
sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
if you’re annoyed like I am
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Spent like a week last cycle working out exactly how Catalina will break the dev environment for work and thinking of workarounds we could get in place before IT policy updated & enforced the upgrade
On one hand, it all ended up mostly ok, on the other hand wtf
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not really found any osx upgrades in the last ~8 years very compelling
was it the last one that hard dark mode but also removed subpixel antialiasing
miss tiger and snow lep
I got the 4tb ssd and because I was really feeling like a wild man assigned it drive letter B
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