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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 mi...

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 ch...

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 dinne...

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.

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 al...

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 s...

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 D...

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, no...

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.. B...

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.

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