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I ran into a similar thing with XFinity, including being on a grandfathered plan.
Here's what they told me:
The old plans don't work that well with new equipment, which has to talk to old modems to make the old plans work. They aren't perfect, especially as the equipment gets upgraded.
It could be as simple as the ISP making an upgrade that downgraded your performance on the old plan. That's my read of what happened with my XFinity account.
Now I'm on a 650mbs per second plan but I regularly get at least 700Mbps.
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I think it comes down to how their throttling works. Apparently it works better with the newer equipment. That's purely speculation on my part since I haven't had cable internet for more than ten years. I have been stuck with various satellite and large scale wi-fi ISPs since that time. I have StarLink now and it is terrific. Not quite as good as what you have but better than anything else I have had in the last ten years.
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#realJSOP wrote: If I was paying for 60 Mbps, and only getting 5Mbps
As @code-witch said, it was probably updates to both hardware and software. Let's say that, as an example, when you got your old equipment the norm was to use AES128 and that is the maximum your device supports. Today the norm is probably AES512 and your device does not have a function for that built in so it must be calculated using CPU time, which will slow your connect a lot. Also, there are hardware protocol changes (signal encoding on the wires), package formats (today is almost all IP based and back then it were dedicated protocols), etc that will have to use CPU time too.
#realJSOP wrote: why am I now seeing MORE Mbps than I'm paying for
Might be due to the way your are measuring and the your ISP advertises it's speed. If you are measuring using a speed test tool, you might actually be measuring your burst speed. Most ISP allow for burst of data for small periods at a speed that is higher than your subscribed maximum.
My ISP has (had?) a policy in which they advertise a certain speed but in reality (as explained by a technician at the time I subscribed) they feed their fiber cable into a building and then just split the bandwidth equally by all subscribers. This means that if there is any bandwidth not assigned to a subscriber, it will be used to increase (even if temporarily) the bandwidth of everyone on that backbone fiber.
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More or less same scenario for me. I paid $25 more per month and my entire family is flying on the net.
my wife and I work from home.
my kids stream movies, gaming, school.
all 4 of us can be on the internet at the same time, and not be impacted anymore by bandwidth issues.
I have Spectrum too.
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To quote “The IT Crowd”:
Did you power cycle your modem and/or router before you called support?
An old modem probably had lots of known vulnerabilities. I wonder if someone had commandeered it via a worm?
It might have been busy helping bad actors look for log4j exploits. Log4j probing spiked in our IIS logs, mostly from elastic cloud clients.
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englebart wrote: Did you power cycle your modem and/or router before you called support? To quote everybody that is even semi self-aware- "Of course, I did."
englebart wrote: An old modem probably had lots of known vulnerabilities. I wonder if someone had commandeered it via a worm? I think not. When I called Spectrum to upgrade, they told me the modem I had (which was fully updated to the latest firmware, FWIW) couldn't give me the speed I had just ordered, and said they'd send me a new one. In the mean time, I rebooted the modem and when it came back online, I was getting 225 Mbps. This tells me that my modem was not the issue.
This also ruled out the coax/ethernet cabling, or the outside box as the possible issue.
englebart wrote: It might have been busy helping bad actors look for log4j exploits. Log4j probing spiked in our IIS logs, mostly from elastic cloud clients. Again, not likely. I'm not running a web server.
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I have about $800 worth of fancy equipment out being shipped right now, mainly an RTX 2080ti and an EVGA 1000watt power supply to drive it.
The card comes today or Monday. The power supply comes on Tuesday.
I've already got hours of 4k game time planned.
I'm beside myself, and I'm not even a real gamer, but Fallout 4 in 4k has me giddy.
Hurryuphurryuphurryup
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honey the codewitch wrote: an EVGA 1000watt power supply
When I was a kid, that was what we used to heat the living room ...
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At this rate by June my computer will be gas powered.
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honey the codewitch wrote: EVGA 1000watt power supply
I'm pretty sure I've used hair dryers that didn't need that sort of power...
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My latest computer has a 1000W PSU and since the laws changed last summer it can no longer be shipped to this state, or yours for that matter. Parts can still be shipped but not fully assembled computers.
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Whoa. I had no idea. How do you power something like an RTX 3090? Do they have a California model?
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Yes, it is a 3090 and a 5900 CPU with a liquid cooling system. I got it in May and the laws when into effect in July. I think six states have these laws: WA, OR, CA, CO, VT, and MI I think is the sixth.
FWIW, I have been working with CUDA and it's great to have 10K GPU cores. Having 24 CPU cores rocks too!
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I don't know what I'd do with 24 cores. I've got 8 cores/16 HW threads on my Ryzen 7 and I never use it all. Most of what I peg a single core with are long compiles, and you can't parallelize those (although you could build several projects at once, and I wish Platform IO did that).
Consequently, I've never been able to peg my CPU. Not even close. I mean if I ran Prime95 on it I probably could, but that seems kind of pointless.
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I'm so old that I think 3090 is an IBM mainframe.
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My kid has been trying to get a new graphics card for a while now, but just hasn't been able to get one when they become available (I'll have to get the model when he emerges from lair).
But he has decided to "give up" and just buy everything else (with my money of course), so he now has a new motherboard, CPU (i9-12900K), and RAM. He's awaiting delivery of a cooler, then we can rebuild his system using current graphics card. So glad to have two weeks off of work.
I'll likely snatch up his current parts and build myself a new(er) system.
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I got super lucky. Found someone on a forum I haunt who had one collecting dust in a linux box he had that's not even turned on. I asked him what he wanted for it. Not only is he sending it to me for $500+shipping, he insists I try it first before I send him the money. Can't beat that!
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Uh-huh, 96 bucks will buy a second-hand card. Formerly used for mining, only 1 available per order for duration of event. As soon as I saw the ad, I ran back here hoping to be able to toss you a hot-tip.
I'm always a bit slow. Sorry!
They've got:
RTX3080 Ti - $99
RTX2080 Ti - $96
RTX2070 - $92
RX6800 - $97
RX6700 - $93
Linky: Flexiv shop
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Thanks but I don't want anything that was used for mining. They don't get cooled enough. Cheaper to just replace the cards when they burn out.
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modified 17-Jan-22 9:18am.
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Oh, that's why VS 2022 was playing me for a fool for thinking code i'd been using for years was broken [^] ... gotta get down and dirty:
#pragma warning disable SYSLIB0011
AryExtensions.WriteBinaryFile<Grid<int>> (grid1);
#pragma warning disable SYSLIB0011
#pragma warning disable SYSLIB0011
Grid<int> grid= AryExtensions.ReadBinaryFile<Grid<int>>();
#pragma warning restore SYSLIB0011 i don't want to use JSON, i don't want to write weird XML with bizarre very long non-mnemonic internal identifiers.
I want buff naked little nuggets of raw bytes !
Note: each invocation of BinaryFormatter needs to be bracketed by pragma save/restore attributes; you can disable it project-wide by modifying the project file.
Time to revisit Mehdi Gholaml's and SuperLloyd's serializers here, on CP.
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Neat! Maybe Bill can get some mileage out of that.
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