Recent content by cgori

What are you trying to achieve with these Ethernet ports? If you are backhauling the traffic from the Ethernet ports over the mesh it's not really helping much versus just keeping the devices on wireless (unless you have some non-wireless/Ethernet-only devices in the office, I suppose). The...

I have a Sony OLED (A9G), was coming from a Pioneer Elite plasma (precursor to the Panasonic plasmas). Picture quality is phenomenal - I don't game on this TV, as stated above that would probably be the only worry for me. I believe the 2021 Sony models (not released yet, but supposedly "very...

The QLED branding by Samsung is really a stroke of genius to make it seem like they are similar, when they're not anywhere close. QLED is tweaked LCD (probably the pinnacle/best of LCD to be fair), with all the backlighting challenges that includes. OLED is individually lit pixels, a...

PAC-12 network feels like they have been overplaying their hand for years now. The whole situation really pissed me off when I had DirecTV.

Basically no: https://support.pac-12.com/hc/en-us/articles/203202403-Can-I-purchase-a-subscription-to-watch-Pac-12-Networks-directly-from-Pac-12-or-Pac-12-Now-for-online-only-viewing-

Interesting. I'm on Win10 and Classic works for me (it has to be re-installed/re-configured maybe once a year when MS pushes a big patch for W10 but that's manageable). /shrug (End-of-hijack, sorry)

Classic Shell is awesome. @Couperin47 recommended it a long time ago in another thread, I took it for a test-drive and I could not be happier with it. I use it and install it all over the place now. (sorry for a small hijack - Coup, I'm still using Classic Shell 4.3.1, circa ~2017, with no...

Theoretically that wears the battery out faster, I believe. But probably not a huge deal for your use case, and the higher sensitivity is likely the bigger win for you / your router situation.

I can't find the Newegg 1-star reviews for any of the stuff I linked (I guess there are a couple on Amazon with logic board failures though). But yes, I can imagine that using a cheap one for high-wattage charging could be a (potential) issue. Blessedly the one I have I only use for on-the-go...

I have a slim laptop with no Ethernet, that part is OK (for me). But it had only USB-C ports so I bought a similar thing to this from the same manufacturer, and it has worked great. That newer one also has Ethernet (and an SD card reader). A similar (but cheaper, without Ethernet) model gets...

I agree with most/all of what @Couperin47 said above - but I have had really good luck with warranty claims on EVGA. Their customer service has been great for me over the years, going above and beyond once or twice. I now try to buy their card all other things being equal.

Interesting. It suggests they slightly over-reduced the number/amount of capacitors when they developed the newer version of the gateway. Probably just a bit too much cost-cutting. That 911 thing was my understanding, like I said. If you get landline that way and there's no battery backup...

If it's really power fluctuations/drops (and not some internal device flakiness) then yes a UPS will help. A decent one basically drives the outputs (via an inverter) directly from the battery and then charges the battery in the background, so the "switchover" is transparent when the supply...

You are, in general, screwed if there is only one provider (I'd triple-check that there aren't any wireless/line-of-sight ISPs). Failing that, do the sign-up name ping-pong dance, if you can. Or think about starting a community ISP? (The possibility of this obviously depends on exactly...

14.2 includes fixes for three different 0-days with in-the-wild exploits. Most enterprise customers are mandating a push to 14.2 (over 14.1) to remain a policy-compliant endpoint device. I have no idea about the battery life conspiracy issue - it's quite possible that the new OS does run...