Did I already write about my ethernet-adapter and how it failed?
Did I mention the long phone call, the emails to no one,
and finally, nothing?
Reviewers ALWAYS hate whatever Amazon is selling:
Reviewers ALWAYS hate whatever Amazon is selling:
You have the proselytizers, the "shills" who got their product free.
Below them, the slightly snarky.
Below them, the slightly snarky.
Below that, curmudgeons.
Below them, shills from another company.
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| And the Amazonians will certainly growl, "We KNOW Wavlink, WHO are YOU?" |
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| "I agree to" WUT!!?? If they won't send me a courtesy-one, or at least a huge coupon...nevermind. (Gonna pay half the damn price to send it back? you KNOW where you can go) |
BUT WAIT!
An encouraging form letter just arrived (I am pretty sure day/night is reversed wherever they are)
Thanks for your message.Pls provide your shipping address in this format:Full Name:Address:City/State:Postcode:Telephone Number:We'll arrange for a replacement unit.Best regards,wavlink Team
Add: Block 4, Taisong
WHYyyyyyy does this matter?
I feel better.
Despite Computer-makers Being too cheap to put an *actual* NIC card with an ethernet connector, something a person should look for when browsing for a notebook,
I think I've come up with a decent solution, (pardon the e-waste and my checking account)
Back to work, and me with explosive.... stomach problems.
Most people this bad would blame flu, but for me it's just another random stomach-day.
You can't see it, but this editor is funky today, adding tons of useless HTML and slowly eating what I write.
You can't see it, but this editor is funky today, adding tons of useless HTML and slowly eating what I write.
I MEANT to add some paragraphs about the New-hotness adapter (The one I bought to replace the one that died, before I found out about the freebie replacement.)
"New hotness" looks like an exact clone of the old ethernet adapter.
NO difference that the consumer could possibly see.
NO difference that the consumer could possibly see.
But if a person reads the microscopic book, they know that somewhere inside is a chip with a different number.
This is meaningless except it isn't limited to 2.5Gbps, it could theoretically go to 5Gbps, which means it's relaxing at half speed!
Bottom line? It's warm, not hot, like the other, busted one.
Is it better? I don't think so, but my feeling is that it SHOULD last longer than a day, like the other one.
O...K, killed the bank account buying accessories, what's next?
Being careful not to spill my tea, I wonder what would happen if I added a partition, like on my old computer... It makes life less *complicated.*
O-shit, really?
I appreciate the effort, and I'm grateful to be in the upper-crusty auto-encryption club, but....
I know from experience that PC's get old, forgetful. They mess up sections of disks.
If stuff is encrypted-then corrupted, it might not be possible to get it back.
Backups would be pointless.
TLDR "We're all gonna die!! Ahhh!!!"
"Be at peace, brother, no pc lives forever (and christmas is coming)"
"Be at peace, brother, no pc lives forever (and christmas is coming)"
Well, enough self-entertainment, the question is, how to unencrypt without ruining my drive and the files on it.
To Be Continued
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| Forever branded as inferior after escaping the snobby clutches of encryption |
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| I thought it meant "You're using fancy power!! We love you for it" and I wasn't too far off Also it SHOULD put the power-supply detractors on Amazon to shame, but it won't. One detractor writes his review like some disappointed parent. (*shs*) |
I wrote (two, three times already) about partitioning, the good and the bad points, and then it all gets erased.
(There! like that!! the text gets selected, and then it's gone!!!)
I will partition, damn the torpedoes and this editor.
C: (The bootable partition) has a blank partition right next to it, for recovery, and for something else I can't quite remember ("safety" of some sort)
splitting the gargantuan C: (OS) drive could get real complicated, unless I ignore the recovery partitions.
Naw, nevermind. The disk isn't really mine to mess with; it's Dell's.
Now that unencrypted files run willy nilly through the town, Windows security is suddenly pissed off at "fan control" and bitches about it a lot.
"Restart," it commands, but does not seem to do anything because after the restart,
it wants another restart.
Eventually I ignore everything everywhere.
Who knows if evil hackers are slick-tongued devils ("We're safe, let us in") blessed by trump and his ilk?
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| "could not be stopped" who else thinks about zombie movies? |
DELL and Intel cooked up this marketing thing so that people are convinced my humble
"Intel Graphics" card will always be destitute.
Not like its neighbor, "Iris/XE"
Not like its neighbor, "Iris/XE"
But if you read the very fine print, you need more memory for iris, that's it.
The extra Dimm-slot? Iris xe (128-bit dual channel)
The extra Dimm-slot? Iris xe (128-bit dual channel)
But like I wrote, with no access to the special hidden BIOS selections, you'd have to chance using whatever slow setting it is now.
Go to BestBuy, find a girl with tight white pants to flirt with the geek squad to break into BIOS to install faster memory (with a higher voltage or different timings, whatever)
Go to BestBuy, find a girl with tight white pants to flirt with the geek squad to break into BIOS to install faster memory (with a higher voltage or different timings, whatever)
In other words, there ARE ways, I (most people) just don't know them.
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| "Shall we play a game?" oshit |
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| This looks nothing like any BIOS I've seen since maybe 1995 Important settings are in a jungle with other settings. I have not found anything relating to timing. I did find "Disable virtualization" but I think Windows gets mad if you do that. |
I'm using Windows with Realtek RTL8156 in gigabit mode. I've tried all kinds of things and finally found a problem. It's USB!
You need to root your USB hub to an empty USB host controller. Plus, ndis.sys (your network driver) runs its break on core 0 by default. You need to set its interrupt policy to another core with a higher priority, you can use the GoInterruptPolicy tool for this. Make sure your USB hub root is also configured to a less busy core.
Now you can experiment with the Receive&Transmit URB. 64 drops/lags a lot of UDP packets, 32 is better, and 16 is the most stable setting. Make sure your Receiver & Transmit URB is equal, use double the transmit buffer to the receiver buffer, what kind of buffer does it also cause phase deviation between those packets?
"I'm using Windows with Realtek RTL8156 in gigabit mode. I've tried all kinds of things and finally found a problem. It's USB!
You need to root your USB hub to an empty USB host controller. Plus, ndis.sys (your network driver) runs its break on core 0 by default. You need to set its interrupt policy to another core with a higher priority, you can use the GoInterruptPolicy tool for this. Make sure your USB hub root is also configured to a less busy core.
Now you can experiment with the Receive&Transmit URB. 64 drops/lags a lot of UDP packets, 32 is better, and 16 is the most stable setting. Make sure your Receiver & Transmit URB is equal, use double the transmit buffer to the receiver buffer, what kind of buffer does it also cause phase deviation between those packets?"
The above is literally unreadable (some ancient dialect) but I translated from whatever it is written in (I accidentally deleted the rest of this sentence)
"On a website so obscure that Indiana Jones would beam with pride at finding it" (and no, I don't have the link)
"On a website so obscure that Indiana Jones would beam with pride at finding it" (and no, I don't have the link)
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| I'm not sure how clear it is that my controller and its minion the root-hub control everything. And you cannot (easily) change the affinity of Ndis.sys, google says so. All I can possibly do is hobble power management so all the leeches (camera,bluetooth) can run 24/7 |
If you're reading the picture, you know that I am generally trying to optimize my internet connection.
TCP1323Opts, power management, arcane verbiage, this is almost like researching witchcraft.
Basically no, I have not found the holy-grail of settings yet.
Plus T-Mobile's internet is half the speed it is at home.
"Jumbo frames are Bad, M'kay?"
My take on an enormous argument that could fill a small book.
(many replies, unwinnable argument)
My trains of thought had an accident, and the wreckage is too hopeless to sift through.
I've got missing paragraphs, meaningless pictures...I'm walking away from this entry now.
One last thing, before this editor eats even more text: I found a way to use affinity to speed up the ethernet adapter, but...IT'S SO BORING!!!
The guy tries to make it readable and fails. Then he goes on an algebra-class speech that math teachers would love. Well, maybe YOU love minutiae, so here is the damn video.
This is an edit.
OK, Intel is being very demure about whatever they call their "Intel graphics" graphics.
I can't even type it into a sentence without sounding confusing.
But I found a page that explains it all, and also shows how similar my graphics are to nearly identical chips.
But I found a page that explains it all, and also shows how similar my graphics are to nearly identical chips.
In other words, ...it might or might not play this or that game.
"PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A7AC&SUBSYS_0D221028&REV_04"
A7AC is what I was looking for.
They differentiate the marketing of different CPU's although I am really not sure why.
It's like maybe you're in a pet store choosing chihuahuas.
Mine is "U" and, under ideal circumstances, the battery will last three hours.
That isn't a lot of time.
I don't know what the dollar-signs in the paragraph I quoted are for.
I also don't know (even after reading) if people successfully modify TDP on their Dell CPU's.
Mine is great for blogging, it plays youtube fine.I'm even told it plays "Bioshock Infinite" ok.
Yes, Bioshock seems fine, on "low", 1280x800.
There doesn't seem to be a "medium", it jumps into "high." The game chose "very low" but I wanted to be adventurous, so I am choosing "Low." There is no controller nor any mouse.
I did not think to bring any.
It still works, if I retrain my fingers.
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