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  1. Robyn Highart
    I actually already use that for mic volume, so I'll look into it, thanks!
  2. Robyn Highart
    I've had to swap to an old pair of headphones. They work fine, but the left speaker is around 8% quieter than the right one. It is noticeable and can be fixed with the Levels setting in control panel - Sound. However, this setting isn't permanent. It resets itself when the volume is lowered to 0 or below the minimum difference between the two sides. I'm also pretty sure updates and things like that reset it. Is there a registry change or simple app I can get to permanently set the levels for this particular device? Thanks.
  3. Robyn Highart
    I don't really need the latest. However I feel like some heavy duty VR is coming next year. That's mainly why I'm building a new PC.
  4. Robyn Highart
    Well, I'm gonna go ahead and declare a Christmas miracle here. I booted up Red Orchestra 2 and my ping remained tolerable. 4 devices online. I then went on youtube on my own phone and started opening videos. The ping went up 4-8 ms reliably. However it did not do that awful 1000 ping freeze-up for a few seconds, which is what used to happen. I think I can live with this level of stability. All the russians on there have 200 ping anyway, but at least I won't be "slowing down time" as the router catches up. So, in conclusion, having faster internet and 5GHz to myself fixed the issue. Might still splash out for a non-default router though to further improve the experience. Thanks for all the advice everyone.
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    I've just received the 5GHz Asus USB-AC680 adapter today and it peaks out at 45Mb/s down and 20Mb/s up. Definitely not anything to with "down the pipe" - there's never any interruption if I exclude other devices from the network. Gonna test in-game performance now to see if this adapter offers any difference to my ping spikes with everyone online.
  6. Robyn Highart
    Yeah, I basically might as well wait until the next Black Friday.
  7. Robyn Highart
    I'm pretty convinced now that the transfer method is not my problem. Regardless if I use WiFi or anything else, the router is just crap and it can't handle so many devices without making each one wait at times.
  8. Robyn Highart
    Yeah, I basically want the non-reference Ti version of the highest next gen card. So could be a long while...
  9. Robyn Highart
    80Mb/s Down, I have QoS, but it's a shitty TalkTalk router and I don't really know how to use it. It has some hidden QoS settings, but from what I've tinkered with it, it hasn't made a difference.
  10. Robyn Highart
    Problem: -Lots of phones on WiFi. Watching YouTube, getting Facebook trash, playing shifty mobile games. Causing ping spikes and making FPS games un-enjoyable. Solution: -A router that can completely isolate my computer and give me a constant stream of protected data, so that I never get interruptions or lag spikes- putting me in a lag-free bubble. What router can achieve this?
  11. Robyn Highart
    My question to that would be, how is the ping? I don't really need high Bandwidth. Gaming is low bandwidth, but needs low latency. Basically, it's not that I don't get enough data, it's that it gets interrupted by the other devices, and therefore cannot maintain a constant stream required for gaming. Do these expensive routers solve this problem?
  12. Robyn Highart
    Could you recommend such a router? I want something with a solid, hardcore device prioritisation. I don't care if the others have a dial-up speed, but I can't disconnect them outright. I just want a sort of separate "stream". I'm afraid of spending hundreds on a router if it's just gimmicky gamer speak, and still get spikes.
  13. Robyn Highart
    I have a good 80Mb/s connection. But it means absolute squat, thanks to a minimum of 4 phones competing for access to the router. If I'm not alone in the house, I can pretty much forget about FPS games. My router supports 5GHz, and as of right now no one in the house has a device that uses it. We're all on 2.4GHz. My question is, will buying a 5GHz adapter for my computer have any effect on the lag spikes I get due to other devices queuing for data? (Ethernet not optional, besides I suspect it's not to do with transfer method, but the router itself.) If not, do those expensive routers, such as the Asus spiky ones, actually do this? What I want, is my own "mini-internet" on the same landline as the rest of the family. How can I achieve this? Is it possible to have a completely lag-spike free experience with other devices connected? Thanks.
  14. Robyn Highart
    These are some sad, sad times for me. I've literally chosen the worst of times to build a PC. The GPU I want, the ASUS 1080ti is ridiculously expensive. Moreover, even if I was prepared to pay that much for it, which I probably would, I now can't because the 2000 series is coming and it would be pointless. I would only look on with envy at the new GPUs, regardless of how amazing the 1080ti is. Add to that the fact that every monitor I want has a third of the people sending it back because the QA work on high Hz IPS panels is absolute garbage. Dead pixels and awful backlight bleed are littering reviews. And there is nothing I can do about it, except to buy a worse, cheaper monitor. It's infuriating. I'm so frustrated. Just waiting and waiting. Waiting for miners to die a homeless death. Needed to vent. Can not live like this; below 100 fps.
  15. Robyn Highart
    I'll look through that later, thank you.
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