What are you playing now?

Well I stopped playing it since it stopped working and I didn't care to fix it. Now it's turned into a huge PITA.

Just ran sfc /scannow and if fixed some shit so ima try again.

Bro I think it's working!

No, it did not work

 

I said fuck it for now and went to get RDR2 on Steam then saw it needs 150GB LOL. It will be way faster to physically take my PC to my office and use the 1Gbps fiber than try to download it at home.

Actually ima take this computer to the office and reinstall windows. Wish me luck!

 

Good luck (and happy new year !)

I've a 10gb fiber at home, I love steam (even if it seems it's limited around 1gb/s )

 

Reinstalled to windows 10

RDR2 is cool but my god how to fix this mouse lag? Until I figure that out ima get the xbox game pass and play Outer Worlds.

 

You have a 10Gb NIC? I work for an ISP so I played around with a 10Gb connection and found that no server I tested (other than speed test servers) would serve up data anywhere near that fast.

 

Path of Exile.

The new season's special mechanic is creating a Frankenstein boss out of dropped body parts and then fighting it. Each part has modifiers that can increase the difficult of the fight as well as increasing the potential rewards. Certain body parts can also guarantee certain types of drops (for example, jewelry...or even better Unique legendary jewelry). IMO, a great way to get gear, especially early in the game. Early game it's much easier to get a body part mod for a Unique (legendary) drop than to just have one drop randomly.

Anyone who likes Diablo style games should give this a try. And if you are new to PoE, using a build someone else has created can be helpful in learning the ropes (the passive skill tree is absolutely bonkers in this game, and its great).

I use https://www.poebuilds.cc/

I'd recommend new players to find a build that sounds like fun that has a "leveling guide." Not all of them do. Also, you don't have to stick to the builds exactly. I deviate quite often if I want to adjust a build to my play style or if I'm not finding the gear they recommend and/or don't feel like trading for gear.

Good guides will describe what the playstyle is like for that build. Some require a more active playstyle (combinations of active skills + flask/potion use to attain max power/efficiency) while some allow for a more relaxed playstyle.

Regards,
SB

 

Yeah my lan is 10gb too (most of it, my computer, my mini server and my NAS). I already toped at 8gb/sec in a speedtest, but most of the time I'm around 3-6gb/sec. My isp is using 10G-Epon tech.

 

Rootax, how much moolah per month does it cost you?

 

Only 42euros/month for 10g down, 600mb up, no quota. Fiber is pretty cheap in France now. 10g ins't guaranteed of course, it's just that they don't limit the max download speed. If the network allows it, good.

 

And how much is 1Gbit?

 

Depend of the isp, options (tv pack, etc). Let say between 20 and 49 euros.

 

I've been told telecommunication infrastructure is harder to build and maintain in the US because many areas are sparsely populated compared to Europe and Asia. The US is very large. There is some truth to that but then I see how much better things get almost over night when a competitive ISP comes to town and remember the real reason is government sponsored monopolistic practices by the big ISPs.

Can you imagine if municipal water services were handled in the same way? You'd be paying hundreds a month for barely potable slosh, water pressure subject to throttling during peak hours. Monthly usage caps, does not roll over to next month, $3/gal overage charges applicable.

 

Okay the Outer Worlds is really good. The writing is cracking me up non stop and the mechanics feel oldschool in a good way where skills really matter in how you handle things. Think New Vegas.

 

It's late at night and I'm tired, but I read that as

Regards,
SB

 

Yes, it's a bit of a vicious circle. The US has a lot of sparsely populated areas (cities and towns with less than 150k population). While other countries also have municipalities that fall under that criteria, the US has a LOT more of them and they are spread further apart just due to the amount of land mass in relation to population. Same reason you don't hear about universally good internet in Russia, China, Australia, etc.

So, in order to encourage companies to expand broadband to these areas, they are given a sort of monopoly. The monopoly only applies to the delivery method, however. So, any area can have say Cable Internet provider and Phone Internet provider and Satellite internet provider. But they can't necessarily have multiple cable internet providers.

Without that, pretty much no broadband provider would take the financial hit of providing broadband infrastructure to most areas of the US.

So in my area, back in the 90's and early 2000's the Phone based broadband was competitive with Cable based broadband. Unfortunately as more people cancelled their landline phone services the phone company could no longer keep up with Cable, so while there's still phone based internet here, it is significantly slower than cable internet. So the cable provider has virtually no competition. /sigh.

But then you look at Las Vegas, which has the same phone company (CenturyLink) and they are competitive with cable down there because there are enough customers to justify them upgrading their internet infrastructure.

In this case, Government rules and regulations have absolutely zero impact on why Cable Internet in my area has bandwidth caps and there is no GB service here. It purely comes down to the fact that it just isn't profitable for one of the companies involved to invest in the infrastructure needed for higher speeds. In this case, CenturyLink which then means that Comcast only needs to invest enough to maintain a large lead on CenturyLink.

But at least I'm thankful I'm not stuck with Time Warner cable as I keep hearing nightmare stories from people who only have that as a choice for internet.

Regards,
SB

 

Cable infrastructures are harder to upgrade than FTTH (Fiber to the Home) ones, AFAIK. With cable, a lot of repeaters / amplifiers are needed to have a good signal. In France, at one time cable was ahead of fiber, but when the main isps decided to really bring high bandwidth, they went fiber all the way. The cable tech is still present in some city, and sometimes upgraded, but it's a dying tech.

 

Yeah, the phone company here isn't rolling out Fiber. Their max residential speed here is 15 Mbps for ~50 USD a month or about 5% of the max speed that Comcast is offering. They aren't even trying to compete with Comcast at this point. But hard to blame them. While we're currently going through a population boom as people are fleeing higher population cities to move here, we're still probably under 350k population for the city.

But considering they are offering Gigabit Fiber in Las Vegas and some other large cities, maybe someday they'll be able to bring it to my city.

Regards,
SB

 

I get it but I live in middle of nowhere Georgia population < 30K and we have the best damn Internet service in the nation. The local telephone co-op (who I work for) took it on themselves to roll out fiber everywhere. We are ILEC outside city limits so it's subsidized but all the stuff we roll out in town (a lot) is not subsidized at all. And we roll all our own fiber since the ILEC in town apparently has no intention of doing so. It doesn't get much more rural than this and still we make plenty of money (which almost all goes back into infrastructure since we're not for profit) by providing high speed, reliable, low cost service. And of course we don't do data caps because it's not the customer's problem if our network can't handle services we bill them for.