Subj : Graphics driver quest To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Oct 07 2025 07:17:00 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. KM> Yeah. Some throttle a lot slower than that. I suppose it makes sense in the big scheme: if it's just me connecting I hardly 'get noticed' by their system as far as loading is concerned. Several thousand -- poential to overload. > 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? KM> Or a lake and shorted parts! Aw, just dip the whole thing in epoxy! > > 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! KM> I already have the spare router. But if you use it it won't be spare! (The Starlink one would become the spare, but that sort of ruins the joke.) > 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. KM> When the wind fairy doesn't get to 'em first, I let 'em dry a bit KM> then mulch 'em with the mower, either way they disappear. Next KM> door neighbor has a forest in his front yard, so I get more KM> leaves than my share, but the lawn can use the mulch. Pretty much the same here, just on a smaller scale. The three trees on the property died ages ago (at different times). Neighbours have trees and some do end up in our yard. If a shallow layer usually can mulch and not bag. If a ton of leaves fall at once still mulch but bag as too much of a mulch layer. One year left the thicker mulch layer and almost killed that section of grass. > 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. KM> I haven't seen that drought has anything to do with it. We're way KM> more dry here and the American elm (which came back from a stump KM> that apparently survived the Dutch Elm plague) sometimes doesn't KM> shed its leaves until the next spring. The backyard tree was like that: held on to its dead leaves until Spring. Not all of the dead leaves remain attached -- definitely had shed most -- but enough remained. KM> The black walnut usually drops them all the first time we get a KM> cool night, tho last year it kept them til we got snow, WTF. KM> It's always last to leaf out in the spring, a good month after KM> everything else, and first to go bald in the fall. "It's getting cool" . "It's getting hot" . KM> There must be some complex interaction between temperature and KM> sunlight, as I've been kinda keeping track and it's more chaotic KM> than not. Siberian elms down by the highway are already yellowed KM> up, but the ones along my side yard look like June (they KM> sometimes don't shed their leaves either, so we get frozen green KM> leaves in December!) Around here it seems like length of sunlight, temperature, and colour depends on rainfall. The also depends on the individual tree, probably just like people. > .. 9 out of 10 people couldn't start conversation if weather didn't change. KM> Ah, this explains why people in Montana talk ALL the time! And why so quiet out here: for a while this late summer the weather was so constant from day to day even the 'yakky' meterologist was having a hard time coming up with something different to comment on. ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... Special Talent: can cook Minute Rice in 58 seconds. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA 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) .