Subj : Re: Graphics driver quest To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Mon Oct 06 2025 22:06:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > Let's see, your old DSL was 0.5 Mb/s... So Starlink = 50 Mb/s. > KM> More like 3.0 and 300, but same principle. Most websites and > KM> FTPs throttle at around 100, so anything more is gravy. > > That last one now has something make sense: my fiber-optic service is > 200 Mbps (verified by random testing to random speed test sites) and > sometimes a transfer seems slower than it should. Yeah. Some throttle a lot slower than that. > KM> It's a port that's Cleverly Designed to be both waterproof, and > KM> where (because you can't get your fingers in there) to be able to > KM> just jerk the cable loose. The entire router is designed to be > KM> outdoors too, tho they no longer tell you to set it up that way! > > Y'mean they found a build-up of rust inside the case wasn't good? Or a lake and shorted parts! > > > > KM> Actually, their whole router is the suck. I need to try bypassing > > KM> it with one that actually has an admin interface (theirs > > KM> doesn't). > > Hopefully they didn't put in some sort of "you must use me" code in it! > KM> Nope, not unless you're troubleshooting. And apparently if you're > KM> not gaming, you can just plug in your router and not do the > KM> bypass thing. If you can turn off NAT in your router, that > KM> problem is solved too. > > Those little tips might save you some money on a replacement router! I already have the spare router. > KM> I think you made it rain. At first I thought it was cuz I mowed > KM> the lawn. (How to get rid of fallen leaves...) > > We've been mulching when mowing the grass and the leaves in the Fall > partially so don't have to rake and for the leaves mostly to get as much > into the yard bags as possible: the yard bags cost money, the stickers > to pay the City to pick up the bags cost money. When the wind fairy doesn't get to 'em first, I let 'em dry a bit then mulch 'em with the mower, either way they disappear. Next door neighbor has a forest in his front yard, so I get more leaves than my share, but the lawn can use the mulch. > Here the leaves are starting to fall, appears mostly the stressd ones > because we have been having a drought. Good news is they're predicting > rain for tomorrow some time -- and then another streak of dry weather. I haven't seen that drought has anything to do with it. We're way more dry here and the American elm (which came back from a stump that apparently survived the Dutch Elm plague) sometimes doesn't shed its leaves until the next spring. The black walnut usually drops them all the first time we get a cool night, tho last year it kept them til we got snow, WTF. It's always last to leaf out in the spring, a good month after everything else, and first to go bald in the fall. There must be some complex interaction between temperature and sunlight, as I've been kinda keeping track and it's more chaotic than not. Siberian elms down by the highway are already yellowed up, but the ones along my side yard look like June (they sometimes don't shed their leaves either, so we get frozen green leaves in December!) > .. 9 out of 10 people couldn't start conversation if weather didn't change. Ah, this explains why people in Montana talk ALL the time! þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .