[Radar]

AMD is my go-to processor for mom-and-pop computers. Quad-core AMD's with 12 gigs of ram are always on Costco's website for under $500.

[Person of Color]

Yeah but the A and E series chips suck. Although the laptop A10 is pretty nice.

They aren't true quads. They share some resources like the FPU.

[Radar]

WELP. I bought an A8 for my parents and I like it. All my dad uses it for is checking the news. And I wanted to backup my MLP library. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Person of Color]

Which you magically torrented to seem relevant in a thread once. No one is buying your trolling, this isn't even a long con at this point.

[Radar]

No, it's troo.

My transformation happened something like this:

[Lunick]

[Inspector Lagomorf]

>Is accused of trolling
>Does the same thing again that caused him to be accused of trolling

[Radar]

[Person of Color]

[Radar]

[Forge]

is that supposed to be some half-full or half-empty thing and the purple rabbit drank it?

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Get your brony shit off of my hardware thread you poofter (and I mean that in a non-bigoted way).

[DustFalcon85]

Person of Color, on 06 May 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:

Careful Princess Twilight Sparkle or you'll become like this guy below!

[Person of Color]

lol everyone is going to think that's Jeff Goldblum except me and Jimmy.

[Carl Winslow]

The router in that first post is not bad. it's just that there's an issue with DNS servers provided by your ISP (which are usually shit). you can easily fix most issues by changing to an OpenNIC DNS server for your area. For some reason the router can have lookup time issues with certain PC setups and whatever DNS your ISP might use.

I say this because i ran into that exact issue. anything that uses a constant data stream was fine, but anything that needed lookups, like browsing the net, caused weird slowdowns and other bad issues. Changing the DNS fixed literally everything.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Carl Winslow, on 12 May 2015 - 12:01 PM, said:

The router in that first post is not bad. it's just that there's an issue with DNS servers provided by your ISP (which are usually shit). you can easily fix most issues by changing to an OpenNIC DNS server for your area. For some reason the router can have lookup time issues with certain PC setups and whatever DNS your ISP might use.

I say this because i ran into that exact issue. anything that uses a constant data stream was fine, but anything that needed lookups, like browsing the net, caused weird slowdowns and other bad issues. Changing the DNS fixed literally everything.

Thanks for the tips. I may reorder that router and revise my original post if your assessment turns out to be true. Its not expensive to the point where I'd feel burned if I tried to use it again.

[Person of Color]

TP-LINK = TOILET PAPER LINK

GET AN ASUS

[Carl Winslow]

Stop being a PC parts hipster, not everyone's got an extra 50 dollars to throw at something that can be fixed with 20.

Also not everyone wants to use fucking linux or cares about how much manual setup you can do on a single thing.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Carl Winslow, on 15 May 2015 - 06:37 AM, said:

Stop being a PC parts hipster, not everyone's got an extra 50 dollars to throw at something that can be fixed with 20.

Well... Admittedly, I do. And ASUS was one of the brands I was considering.

[Ronin]

Person of Color, on 07 May 2015 - 06:06 PM, said:

lol everyone is going to think that's Jeff Goldblum except me and Jimmy.

[TerminX]

I have a bunch of ASUS routers... they're OK. All consumer networking hardware is more or less garbage. They all get their chipsets from Broadcom and they're all constrained to using the SDK Broadcom provides, which means that for any given generation of router, 99% of them will be running the same chipset and stuck on the same kernel version forever... ancient kernel versions that are typically years out of date by the time any of these products make it to market, at that. All of the ASUS routers I have are RT-AC66Us, which I believe went to market in 2012. All of them are stuck on Linux version 2.6.22.19, which was already 3 years old at that point. Beyond that you're looking at hardware build quality and software features, which ASUS has done well with so far.

Do not expect any consumer wireless hardware to run for months at a time under heavy load without issue, though. It just isn't happening. Even my RT-AC66U flashed with Tomato will reboot itself every now and then if it feels like it. I've got one of the other ones that still runs their ASUSWRT firmware set up to where it can usually run several weeks without issues, but even that isn't foolproof. Unfortunately, good 802.11ac hardware intended for commercial use costs a LOT.

[Paul B]

TerminX, on 15 May 2015 - 01:18 PM, said:

Unfortunately, good 802.11ac hardware intended for commercial use costs a LOT.

Might I recommend running a small box with pfsense. https://www.pfsense.org/ You can even control what chipset you use.

In case people were wanting to hear an alternative solution. =) Or they also offer their own in house custom chassis's now.

That's just my two pf-cents.

[Person of Color]

Carl Winslow, on 15 May 2015 - 06:37 AM, said:

Stop being a PC parts hipster, not everyone's got an extra 50 dollars to throw at something that can be fixed with 20.

Also not everyone wants to use fucking linux or cares about how much manual setup you can do on a single thing.

They make entry level routers for like $30, dude.

TerminX, on 15 May 2015 - 01:18 PM, said:

I have a bunch of ASUS routers... they're OK. All consumer networking hardware is more or less garbage. They all get their chipsets from Broadcom and they're all constrained to using the SDK Broadcom provides, which means that for any given generation of router, 99% of them will be running the same chipset and stuck on the same kernel version forever... ancient kernel versions that are typically years out of date by the time any of these products make it to market, at that. All of the ASUS routers I have are RT-AC66Us, which I believe went to market in 2012. All of them are stuck on Linux version 2.6.22.19, which was already 3 years old at that point. Beyond that you're looking at hardware build quality and software features, which ASUS has done well with so far.

Do not expect any consumer wireless hardware to run for months at a time under heavy load without issue, though. It just isn't happening. Even my RT-AC66U flashed with Tomato will reboot itself every now and then if it feels like it. I've got one of the other ones that still runs their ASUSWRT firmware set up to where it can usually run several weeks without issues, but even that isn't foolproof. Unfortunately, good 802.11ac hardware intended for commercial use costs a LOT.

I wouldn't trust these under ultra heavy loads 24/7, but for low to moderate bandwidth usage they're pretty much tanks.

I stick with the Asus RT-N66U because of reliability reasons. It runs much colder, seems to be more stable software wise, and most devices still don't support 802.11ac. I haven't had any spontaneous crashes or reboots with them yet. It's only been two samples so far but they get tons of use. My brother has had an Asus WRT-N16 for over a year now and his is just as solid.

If I were maxing out my insane cable connection (127/37) 24/7 I bet these little bastards would drop like flies.

[Duke of Hazzard]

Person of Color, on 14 May 2015 - 08:02 PM, said:

TP-LINK = TOILET PAPER LINK

GET AN ASUS

That's stupid, I'm not going to invest R$400 on something when I can get a similar thing for less than R$100 that more than does its job.

If Asus offers a single antenna basic router, I could see getting another one. But so far my TP-Link has been working well. If it dies, I could get an Asus.

If Viper had to make do with the shit we're forced to use over here, he'd probably either kill himself out of disgust or become a genius of getting the most out of chink parts. It's the South American computer variation of Cuban mechanics, who have perfected the art of ogrelike, preprehistoric mechanical engineering in cars.

BTW I know a guy who's 40 and into MLP, if Radar is older than that he's hopeless. Not a bad show though. You'll see grown up bearded manchilds fawn over The Hobbit and that's also stuff for children, so...

[Mark]

After reading the posts I was wondering.... Am I in the minority with everything connected by cable and no wireless? I get the feeling I am.

Secondly, many years ago I had a Linksys router which after a few years would randomly slow down connect speeds and I would have to hit the reset button every now and then. I assumed it was a faulty router so eventually I bought a new Linksys router. I find the same issue with the new one. It sure gets annoying.

[Forge]

That's your network provider monitoring your internet activities and reducing your bandwidth to save themselves some pennies.

[Person of Color]

Duke of Hazzard, on 17 May 2015 - 02:18 AM, said:

If Viper had to make do with the shit we're forced to use over here, he'd probably either kill himself out of disgust or become a genius of getting the most out of chink parts. It's the South American computer variation of Cuban mechanics, who have perfected the art of ogrelike, preprehistoric mechanical engineering in cars.

I can't believe that costs a hundred "R" dollars. How much is that if you convert it from Monopoly money to actual greenbacks?

[Duke of Hazzard]

Person of Color, on 17 May 2015 - 01:15 PM, said:

I can't believe that costs a hundred "R" dollars. How much is that if you convert it from Monopoly money to actual greenbacks?

That kickass router you linked to costs $129. In my currency it's around R$390. Add in hefty import taxes and consider the minimum wage in the country is around R$800, and you get the picture.

[Person of Color]

Yeah they have cheaper ones.

Move to a real country. The problem is your currency is backed by bananas instead of Jewish debt.

[Radar]