Geek thread - Discuss IT stuff

I realise it. In fact I don’t want/need to use everything in the same time. But I’d like to have a possubility to use internet in each of the devices. Right, the internet that I have now is said to be slow (but I haven’t even noticed it - I don’t download huge files at all or not so often).
If I go for any change of what I have now, I will have no choice but to change the internet speed (they don’t offer anything at my speed anymore :stuck_out_tongue:).

What’s your speed?

not sure - 15/30 Mbit/s it’s what written in my internet contract

100/100 is what I can find in my internet settings

Just google, ‘internet speed test’ and run one.

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Your ping is fine, your upload is pretty horrific, the download is passable, though if you want to stream high res vids, it might slow down and it won’t handle more than 3 or 4 devices too well. In short, ping is the time it takes to communicate with a server (lower is better), download is the figure you want to be looking at as that’s what you do most of. Every time you open a web page or watch a vid, or play music from online, or anything like that, you’re downloading data. Obviously, the higher your download speed, the better. Upload is for when you’re sending info to somewhere, such as uploading an image from your computer to the forums.

When browsing or doing most internet tasks, you’re downloading. Upload doesn’t really concern you unless you stream videos to an audience or work with a lot of cloud based services where you’re transfering big chunks of data both ways between local storage (your computer) and cloud storage.

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Is yours at that level? :thinking:

Damn…

after I switched plug.dj off

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That’s better

Both are mine.

Mine reads mostly in sub-zero decimals when I’m on copper. I’m in the 100-115 range on the DL on fibre and about 10 on the UL.

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Plug is a data whore. Goes to prove my point, you’re streaming yt vids while running a chat with various animations and what not. Then there’s the fact that plug is an unoptimised pile of garbage, it was driving my old laptop’s CPU up the wall.

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Yeah but that’s drastic for just plug
The first seemed too low for me

That’s more of what I expected…

Whatever you do go setting up, if it’s possible, wire it as opposed to using the WiFi capability
If it’s something that’ll be stationary then it’ll benefit you to run the wire as it’ll be more stable

Where is @framos1792 with his How-to advice? A handyman needed.

I bought a new TV and now I’m crying over my old one. Seems IT didn’t turn out to be a problem to me.
I feel screwed (by I don’t know whom - a shop, a producer? or myself) which means here a problem with screws and screwdrivers. I’m not able to fix a TV stand. It’s only possible to insert a half of a screw. So the TV can’t stand steadily.

I’m going to pretend I didn’t just read that. :joy:

Are you sure you’ve got the right sized screws in the right holes?

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I thought about it. I’m not sure but the one who has put them into the box together with the TV was. I have nothing better at home so I have to wait for a handyman till tomorrow.
By the way, the TV works but I wouldn’t say that resolution 1920x1080 is something extraordinary.

Because it isn’t, 1080p is primitive these days, and obviously, the bigger the screen (with a constant resolution), the lower your pixel density gets. What size screen did you go for?

32’
Can’t buy anything bigger for my apartment. My old one was 26’ and had better colours and let alone the quality.

Having bought the new one I’m about to cry over the quality of any new devices in comparison to the old ones. So called technological development does no good to the environment. I’d rather have a reliable device than a piece of rubbish with lots of (mostly useless) apps that’s gonna be down in a year or two.

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What’s the exact make and model. 32" at 1080p is not good at all. I’d interrogate you about other various aspects of it, but it’d be easier if you just gave me a make and model / part number. It sounds like you’re best off returning it while you still have the chance. Also, didn’t you test it before you bought it?

Maybe this :point_up_2: ?

Before I bought my new TV, I think it was 2014, I run to the TV shop for weeks, looked at screens, annoyed salespeople with lot of questions.
It’s important, if you will see the real quality of the picture, that he turns the program from sky to normal non HD pic.
And I read tonnes of internet critic’s, on Amazon or all this testing sides.
So I decided for a Panasonic plasma TV and am really happy with it.

Also, keep in mind, shop displays are designed to trick you as they play extreme definition videos (like 8K and over) that are specifically designed to look good on those screens and are never what you’d have broadcast to you or what you’d find on youtube other other sites.

We own a Panasonic too and we’re happy with it. Ours is a 42", 4K, LED I think.

EDIT:

Correction, it’s a 40" 4K, LED. My dad says it’s decent but it has banding on the blacks and the contrast ratio could be better (I don’t spend long enough in front of it to be able to notice these things). It’s a Panasonic TX-40CX690B.

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